Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I’m a self proclaimed pack-rat and collector, but if I ever had to sell my gaming collection to feed my family these are the games I’d hang onto. If my wife let me, anyway. Valkyria […]

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Wikipedia defines survival horror as a game genre in which odds are stacked against the player so as to de-emphasize direct combat, and instead encourage the player to avoid enemies. This is generally done by limiting resources such as ammunition and healing items, and by making the player’s avatar relatively weak, as opposed to other […]

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I love Zero Punctuation. It’s hilarious. But be forewarned: it’s not G-Rated. As a side note, he reiterates a point I made recently about Tolkien.

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It’s Christmas week, and Lungfishopolis is taking the week off. We’ll be back next week.

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This is awesome. I just played all the way through the original Atari 2600 game Adventure. And then I played through both levels of Yars Revenge. The games don’t age well, but boy do they have nostalgia value. Happy Friday! Play Yars Revenge Play Adventure Browse other Atari 2600 Games

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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’m a self proclaimed pack-rat and collector, but if I ever had to sell my gaming collection to feed my family these are the games I’d hang onto. If my wife let me, anyway. Ah, […]

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Just a quick thought on something I’ve noticed in Dragon Age: Origins. Downloadable content is nothing new, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen extra downloadable content marketed from within the base game before. In Dragon Age, there’s a guy in your campsite offering you a quest. But the quest he’s asking you to do […]

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As I continue to play through Borderlands, after having completed the main quest, I notice more and more the external influences that must have affected the game’s design. For example, the pillar of light that appears when you activate quick travel looks very much like the pillar of light coming from City 17’s Citadel in […]

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This is a pretty cool site. The Gun Show allows people to upload and show off their Borderlands items, and it seems as though they may have a system in place for people who want to trade items. Fun to look through.

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I don’t play much TF2 anymore. I’m actually really really bad at it. Really. But I got a kick out of this video.

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