Happy Black Friday! Sola Rola is a pretty cool little puzzler, very much like those handheld games where you try to roll the ball bearings into their slots. But in space! Play Sola Rola

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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 […]

Read the rest of Keepers: Beyond Good and Evil

As is normal for this time of year, there’s just an incredible flood of games that I want to play. Right now I’m having a blast playing Dragon Age: Origins, Trine, and multiplayer Borderlands, but I’ve got a lot of other games I’m looking forward to playing when I’m done. When I counted, I got […]

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This is the third part in my series on what themes tie together my all-time favorite video games. In April 2008, Blogs of the Round Table covered “Variations on a Theme”, and discussed what themes tie together your favorite games. I’m a bit late to the party, but I’m catching up now. Early on, I […]

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Check it out – a game for the Wii worth buying! It’s been a while. I hope to pick up a copy of Super Mario Wii soon. Video Game – E3 2009 – Video Game Trailers

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Let me introduce you to the best bear driving sim that I’ve ever played. What amazing realism! You’ve got to actually grab the wheel with the bear’s paw to steer! Yeah – it’s weird. That’s what makes it fun. Play Enviro-Bear 2000

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This is the second part in my series on what themes tie together my all-time favorite video games. In April 2008, Blogs of the Round Table discussed this topic, and I’m only just now catching up. One aspect of games that I’ve always appreciated is innovation. When a game comes out that does something totally […]

Read the rest of Variations on a Theme, Part II: Innovation

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: Crysis

Many years ago, when I had a friend who was into the original Everquest, I remember him explaining the notion of “aggro” to me. The creature in the game would attack whomever had done the most damage to it. Seems simple – makes sense. Since then, I’ve heard the terms “mob”, “dps”, “instance” and “raid” […]

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You may have never heard of Blogs of the Round Table. It’s a cross-blog event that encourages blog authors to write about specific topics each month. BoRT has undergone a format change recently, but I’ve been examining many of the older entries, and in playing catch-up, have decided to begin by writing on the April […]

Read the rest of Variations on a Theme, Part I: Conspiracy