Last week I had a $25 GameStop giftcard burning a whole in my pocket and wanted something new for the PSP. I’d read some quickie previews of Half-Minute Hero, it was within reach and my spending limit, so I picked it up on impulse. This has quickly turned out to be the most fun I’ve […]

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Before you jump all over me about the post title, hear me out and understand my point. Before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, elves were little foot-tall guys who ran around in faerie forests and made Keebler cookies. Dwarves were midgets – human beings with far below average height. And orcs… […]

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Just thought I’d share a couple of my favorite Borderlands weapons here. I’m playing as Mordecai the sniper, so first off I’ve got my PPZ Liquid Wrath sniper rifle. In addition to doing over 200 damage, it zaps right through enemies’ shields. Very nice. And secondly, my standby at medium range. The HLK War Cobra. […]

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Here’s another game that hadn’t been on my radar at all until I saw this trailer. Magicka – a four-player Diablo-like RPG with a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, as you can certainly tell by this trailer. Currently, it’s only a XBLA game, but I’d love to see it on PSN. This is exactly the type […]

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Time Fcuk is a very Portal-like game. Each level challenges you to reach the end portal by changing “layers”, reversing gravity, and listening to the humorous advice of… yourself. Yourself from the future. Play Time Fcuk

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I’m playing the Steam version of Borderlands on a PC, which means that I’ve been playing about a week less than the XBox and PS3 folks. It also means that I’m not playing on a platform for which the game was designed. The menus in Borderlands were obviously put together for a console, and it […]

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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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Chase sequences in games are really difficult to do well. How many can you think of? Generally they’re either of the timed sort such as in Prototype, where you’ve got to navigate obstacles and reach your target before the timer elapses, or else they’re of the untimed sort where you can wait around for as […]

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My wife and I have been seriously digging Trine. After having played it over the weekend, I’m ready to say that it’s a front-runner for best game I’ve played in 2009. Granted, I have yet to play Dragon Age: Origins, and I’m not sure whether I’ll be playing Uncharted 2 in 2009, but as of […]

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Wow. Check it out. It looks like Playstation 3 owners will be able to stream content from Netflix as early as November. This is huge news for me, as my household doesn’t even subscribe to cable. We get pretty much all our programming from Netflix and from Hulu. Now there’ll be no more waiting for […]

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