Although I’ve been progressing through my 2011 games more or less in alphabeticaly sequence up until now, I’ve got to briefly break from that to hit a game that seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow: Limbo.               Like so many other XBLA exclusives that eventually come to […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part IX

Even if you haven’t tried Skyrim, you probably don’t need me to tell you how huge the Elder Scrolls games are. They eat your free time like the Cookie Monster with a box of Chips Ahoy. In January, Bethesda is releasing the Skyrim Creation Kit, and the mods that have as yet been missing will […]

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      Whereas many of my installments in this series contain nothing but C- games, this chunk contains some good ones. First off, Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe. Along with Beyond Good & Evil, Pixeljunk Monsters is one of those games that anyone who reads this site often must get sick of me talking about. I […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part VIII

          This week, my list of the games I’ve played throughout 2011 continues. First off, Metroid Prime. Yeah, the old Gamecube game. I just got around to finally playing it. I never owned a Gamecube, but a few years back, I’d played Eternal Darkness on my Wii and had a lot […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part VII

          I’ve been playing Skyrim a lot, and I’m loving the game. My character is level 39 at present, and my sneak skill is already at 99 – I hope to max it out the next time I play and then work harder at maxxing out my archery, enchantment, and alchemy. But my favorite part […]

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Metal Gear Solid Yeah. The first one. The Playstation One game. I’d never really played it, although I scored a copy on EBay a number of years ago. My Playstation 3 plays PS1 games, so I gave it a go. The game actually looks pretty good with the PS3’s smoothing. But I played through until […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part VI

    The next segment of my Games of 2011 list begins with a PSP game: Dungeons & Dragons Tactics. This is one of the few 2011 games that I haven’t yet finished, and will likely continue playing well into 2012. I really like tactical battle RPGs, and this game does it fairly well. Since […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part V

I have a lot more to say about the games on today’s list than I have about many others. That’s probably just because I like to complain, and I’ve got a lot to complain about with these three titles.             I got Dead Nation for free as part of PSN’s […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part IV

Part three of my list includes games seven, eight, and nine in my list of the thirty-something games I’ve played in 2011.         The first of these is Bioshock 2. I waited a long time after the game’s release to play it because, honestly, I just wasn’t that excited. In the end, […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part III

It’s hard to think ahead to other games at this point. This time of year, we’re generally buried in the year’s best releases. I’ve still got eighteen more riddler trophies and four riddles in Arkham City, and my character in Skyrim is level 21 and he’s only begun to scratch the game’s surface. I haven’t […]

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