Until the current console generation, I’d not gotten into the Zelda games. But when I tried out Twilight Princess, I fell in love. You’ll notice that when I listed my top five favorite games, Twilight Princess was number five. “So!”, I said, “This is what all the fuss is about. Zelda games are awesome! I […]

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Dungeon’s Master does a monthly series called “RPG Blog Carnival”, and although I generally don’t write about D&D stuff, this month’s topic intrigued me, and I felt compelled to participate. The article asks blog authors to look at a real-life person, living or dead, and re-imagine him or her as a character in an RPG. […]

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I’ve just had a thought. An idea. I have an idea. This site has been langushing for some time. My own writings have been entirely uninspired over the past year, and I’ve often considered shutting this site down. The main reason I haven’t is because I really like the site’s design, the random header and […]

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So I’ve been reviewing the “Playstation Customer Appreciation Program”, which is really just a giant apology to everyone with a PSN account. We’re sorry we let somebody steal your credit card info from us; here, have a really old game. Everything’s okay now, right? I’ve got a whole bunch of thoughts on this, but let’s […]

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This idea has been germinating in my mind since I got my first portable: The DS Lite. When I got my Android phone, I decided to write this article, but never got around to it. Now I have a PSP as well, and I feel like I’ve got a fairly well rounded take on the […]

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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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Back in 1990, I was in high school. I remember reading in a computer magazine that Ultima VI had been released for the Commodore 64. At the time, Ultima V was one of my favorite games of all time, and I really wanted to play the sequel. But for whatever reason – money, girls, college applications […]

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