Category: video games
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Cast Your Net unto Thy Darkness. It is Time for Some Pods.
Generally when I look out on the surface of the Podcast listings on my iPhone I’m confronted with two things; NPR and Video Games. Neither of which are exactly expanding my listening horizons. Every so often though, I find a few that fit within those publishing categories but also expand my interest and thinking. Here…
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Supreme Grievences Filed with thine Commander 2
Jeff Buckland over at AtomicGamer has written up something that I wouldn’t normally dream of reading, a wish list for a game. However, this is one game that I happen to think was overlooked by many strategery fans for the minimal things in which it was lacking, instead of the greatness for which it is.…
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Real Triggers Review (PS3)
Most people would probably expect the Dual Shock 3 to be the best of both worlds; the useless wobbling from the SIXAXISâ„¢ disaster, and the great design and heft of the Dual Shock 2. Unfortunately, someone at Sony forgot to fix the triggers (R2, L2) for first person shooters. Most likely they don’t understand why…
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Lord of the Rings: Online 10 Day Free Trial
While I was downloading 10+ gigabytes of the new Lord of the Rings: Online 10 Day Free Trial, (because LOST doesn’t air for me until tomorrow on abc.com) I wondered how many floppies that would be if this game were released in the early 90’s. Of course, nobody sane would ever release 10+ gigabytes of…
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F.E.A.R. 2: Scary Slider: Demo Impressions (PS3)
Dear Horror Games, You’ve got Audio sliders for volume levels, and difficulty sliders for difficulty levels. Why not Horror sliders for Horror levels? So if I’m about to go asleep, I can turn it from bleeding-walls and scary little girls to flowers and puppy dogs? Other than that, the FEAR 2: Preposterous Subtitle Demo on…