If none of this makes sense to you, check out Part 1.  If it still doesn’t make sense, then blame my crappy writing. Shortly after agreeing to go on the trip, and getting all of my travel arranged, I realized that I had a big, nay huge problem, namely that the event was taking place […]

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I think I first started playing the Baldur’s Gate games back in 1999, and was thrilled to find a computer RPG based on Dungeons and Dragons, which I’d been playing with friends for years. At the time, I hadn’t played a D&D based video game since the gold box series on my Commodore 64. Flash […]

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I should preface this piece with the statement that I really don’t consider myself a games journalist. I primarily review games for GameShark.com and also do preview pieces on occasion. “Confessions of a Game Reviewer” doesn’t have the same snap to it though, and in my recent trip to Vegas I did bust out my […]

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Recently, Nintendo has been taking a lot of flack for the Wii’s lack of appropriate data storage. 512mB of internal flash memory just isn’t enough now that WiiWare is offering downloadable games. In a recent interview with Club Nintendo, Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime said that they have a storage solution in mind, and that it’s better […]

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Here in sunny Lungfishopolis, we like to encourage gaming togetherness. Why spend a Saturday locked in the basement with your 360 when you could be sitting in front of the 52″ plasma screen in the living room with your spouse playing Boom Blox? So we racked our brains and came up with some of the […]

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For this week’s Free Game Friday, I look back to a post Michael Abbott made last week, wherein he talks about this remake of the original Quest For Glory II, which has been given a total overhaul and released for free. The sequel to Hero’s Quest, Quest for Glory II is an old school adventure […]

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I’ve been looking forward to Fallout 3. A lot. I’d be happy skipping Spore, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and the new Ghostbusters game, so long as I get to play Fallout 3. At PAX, Bethesda released the Fallout 3 survival guide in pdf format. What can I say? It’s made of win. You can […]

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So, Mercenaries 2 dropped on Sunday, and with it, seamless drop in, drop out cooperative play.  Basically, by default, when you’re playing, any one on your Friends List can just pop on into your game and help you blow stuff up.  On paper, it sounds great but in reality, it’s kind of unsettling. I was […]

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I’d been planning to write this week about the different platforms on which Spore is going to be available as of this Sunday. I’d been planning on discussing the potential pros and cons of each platform and asking readers on which platform they’d be playing Spore. I’d been planning to do this… until I went […]

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At E3, Nintendo announced their new “Motion+” controller, and developers expressed “annoyance and betrayal” at having not been given advance notice of its existence. It will be at least six to nine months before outside game developers are able to produce games that utilize this technology. Only Nintendo first-party games will use it any time […]

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