Tetris turns 25 today. You may have seen, but Google has changed the logo on their main page to reflect the momentous occasion.

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As I look over my list of games that were announced at E3 this year, I’m struck by the fact that every one of which I’ve taken note is a sequel. Probably the one I’m most excited about is Heavy Rain, which isn’t a true sequel to Fahrenheit, but it’s a spiritual successor created by […]

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Thanks to Frank for this week’s Free Game Friday. Oregon Trail is a seriously old-school game. I actually played it at my old school in 1982 on an Apple 2e. It was an educational game, like Math Blaster and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? Anyway, enjoy. Play Oregon Trail

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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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After having completed most of the content in Plants vs Zombies, I’m still playing the game. As a tribute, I thought I’d take this opportunity to detail my five most favoritest plants and my five most hated zombies. Firstly, the pumpkin. It’s far more expensive than the wall-nut, and has primarily the same effect. However, […]

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Okay, so the week isn’t even over yet, but they’ve announced some pretty cool things at E3. I’ve been browsing reports, and here are the items that jumped out at me. Project Natal  Project Natal for the XBox 360 seems to be taking the idea of the Wii remote and improving it by using a […]

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This is the fifth and final part in a series I’m writing on games that I played so long ago that I’d almost forgotten them. Back in the day before we were all on the internet, I used to log onto bulletin board systems with a dial-up modem to play door games. I played Usurper, […]

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I’ve never played any of the original Monkey Island games, but I’ve heard people rave about them. Now, it looks like TellTale games, makers of the new Sam & Max and Strong Bad adventure games have a new episodic game series on the boards: Tales of Monkey Island. The series is debuting July 7th for the […]

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