Listening to Episode 64 of Jumping the Shark recently, I got to thinking about the move away from physical game media and towards the digital distribution of content. It seems that read-only hard copies of media are edging towards obsolescence. I tend not to buy DVDs and BluRays that I can get from Netflix on a couple […]

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I could list a number of reasons why I just bought a PSP. I could say that it has to do with the announcement of the NGP. The PSP is never likely to get cheaper than it is now, and there is never likely to be an iteration of the handheld beyond the PSP-3000. I […]

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I recently found myself with an entire weekend to myself. No spouse, no children, no chores. It’s a rarity. So what immediately sprang to mind? Video games. And as I reviewed the titles I might pick up, I realized that what I really wanted was a Zelda game. In the end, I bypassed Dead Space […]

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Over at No High Scores, Bill Abner wrote this weekend about the games that make us who we are, and referred to the collection as a Gaming Tree, even going so far as to map his out. The idea was so fascinating to me that I went ahead and drew up my own gaming tree […]

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