For some reason I usually play as women when playing RPG’s.  Maybe it’s because I’m a man in real life, so playing as a woman represents a new experience.  Maybe it’s because if I’m going to be staring at someone’s ass for 40 hours, I’d prefer it to be a female one.  I truly have […]

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Only give this one a shot if you’ve got a lot of free time. This is a full-fledged RPG in a browser. Sure, it’s simplistic, basically a reimagining of the old text games, but they’ve been pretty thorough. It’s got the same tongue-in-cheek feel as the Penny Arcade game, only without the rated-M humor. Play […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: Legends of Zork

Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

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Nintendo has announced the date and price of its new MotionPlus controller. On June 8th, you’ll be able to get your hot little hands on the wiimote add-on, which clips to the bottom of your existing controller and provides a “dual-axis tuning fork angular rate sensor”, which apparently adds to the motion-sensing goodness by determining […]

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After having actually managed to download Braid, I’m really enjoying it. But when I got really stuck on one of the puzzles in world 2 and looked up an online walkthrough, I found that the official Braid guide says Some of the puzzles will be hard. But when you manage to solve those hard puzzles, […]

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Braid for PC ostensibly releases today. I say ostensibly because earlier today, I logged onto the game’s Steam page, and it said “This game will unlock in approximately 2 hours”. Fine. Good. I logged on a bit later and saw that it said one hour. When it was supposed to release, the message disappeared, but […]

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This week, for Free Game Friday, I’m not bringing to you just any old game. I didn’t have huge expectations for Tag: The Power of Paint, but it absolutely blew me away. The game feels a lot like Portal, in that you’re using an odd gun, in this case a paint gun, to navigate an […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: TAG

Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

Read the rest of Keepers: Shadow of the Colossus

It’s a sad truth that I’ve been let down by a great number of games recently. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I’m having more fun with Final Fantasy XII and Thief: Deadly Shadows now than I have with most of the newer games I’ve tried. I haven’t gotten very far into Far Cry […]

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A lovingly-crafted parody of Oregon Trail, themed to Fallout Boy. There are some nice attempts at Guitar Hero like play, and some really poor attempts at shooter mechanics, but the game sure is funny. I died on the side of the road after my van was capsized by surf zombies. My chicken nuggets sank and […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: Fallout Boy Trail