One of my favorite new board games is Castle Panic, which I discovered at PAX East this past year. If you’ve never heard of Castle Panic, you can read my review of the game here. Fireside games has just announced the expansion to this board game: The Wizard’s Tower. Your Castle has been rebuilt, and […]

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  It took me three evenings to finish Limbo, and I’m glad to say that I did it with no walkthrough and no hints. In fact, I plan to get all the game’s trophies with the exception of that one that would have you complete the game in one sitting with five or less deaths. […]

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I’m a huge fan of Sci-Fi. Yet somehow, I’d not realized until recently what a huge portion of video games fall squarely within the genre. Looking at the biggies of 2010, we’ve got Super Mario Galaxy 2, Halo: Reach, Vanquish, Limbo, Super Street Fighter 4, Mass Effect 2, and God of War 3, all of […]

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Here’s the second part of the Lungfishopolis Limbo hints extravaganza. Remember – this is not a walkthrough. If you want walkthroughs, there are plenty on YouTube. But I urge you *not* to use walkthroughs. Limbo’s puzzles can be very challenging, but if you can suck it up and just spend some time and experiment, you […]

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 I’ve had my Droid X for nearly a year now, and I’ve found quite a lot of decent games for the device. I haven’t yet discussed the crossword games on Lungfishopolis, and now that Scrabble has made its Android debut, it seems time.  I first tried Words With Friends (pictured far left) when a friend with […]

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Because I don’t have an XBox, I don’t have access to XBLA games until they’re released on other platforms. This is why I never got to try Braid until it was released on Steam. When I eventually got access to the game through Steam, I found out just how hard its puzzles really were, and […]

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Not long ago, Kris Johnson wrote an article over at The Secret Lair in which he espoused shame for playing casual games. While Diner Dash and Happyville may not be my own choices, I do believe that casual games have their place. So often, I’ll have fifteen minutes at the end of an evening, and […]

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Beyond Good and Evil is possibly my favorite video game of all time. I recently picked up the HD remake on the Playstation Network and happily ran through my sixth playthrough of the game in short order. The HD visuals were nice, but certainly not stunning. There were, however, a few other things I noticed. […]

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Ahh, summer. It’s the time for trips to Disneyworld, pina coladas, and day trips to the oceanside. It’s also the time of year when I’m totally unable to use my PC, because my PC sits in my office on the third floor where it’s 110 degrees during the day. Air conditioning might lower the temperature […]

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For years, gamers have laughed about video games that include a huge overarching plot of critical importance and then let players run around exploring rather than attending to the matter at hand. The realm is being attacked by demons from Oblivion and our hero spends days picking flowers. The Collectors are ravaging civilizations and the […]

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