Well, I’m finished with Bastion and I’m playing Skyrim – my Bosmer elf Leroy is already 11th level. But enough about Skyrim – I want to talk a bit about Bastion. I’ll say right out that I loved the game. Its music is one of the best parts of the game, but I also enjoyed […]

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  Where to begin? Back in 2009 when I first heard of Batman: Arkham Asylum, I totally wrote it off, like a dumbass. I was at the time in talks with a videogame distributor because I was considering opening up a small-town video game retail store in Colorado, and I remember scoffing. I scoffed. Pfft. […]

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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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I just finished playing Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I bought it after a strong recommendation from a few freinds on Google Buzz. I’d played the demo, and didn’t really like it. But when it went on sale on Amazon for $20, I grabbed a copy, figuring that I could sell it on EBay when […]

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Just had to share how incredibly excited I am about today’s announcement of the Beyond Good and Evil HD remake for Playstation 3 and XBox 360. Check out these images! Simply awesome. You can check out more images here.

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My wife and I have always played video games together. Back when we were first dating, she bought a gaming PC and left it over my house so that she could come over and play Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gate with me. Later, we played Dungeon Siege, Champions of Norrath and Gauntlet Legends together. These […]

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I’ve been playing a lot of Darksiders the past couple of weeks taking a whirlwind tour through post-apocalyptic Earth as War, one of the four Horsemen.  Along the way I’ve killed many the demon, rode many the mile and amassed a collection of armaments and weapon enhancements to make Kratos proud.  I found the game […]

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In continuing my writing on a year-and-a-half-old Blogs of the Round Table topic, I come to the subject of gameplay variety. I wrote about this topic myself roughly a year before it came up on BoRT, but it may be time to revisit the subject. The two examples I like to look at for gameplay […]

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I’m done with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I can sum up the bulk of my frustrations in two words: Bad Platforming. It’s funny – I don’t remember quite so many bottomless pits in any of the Star Wars movies. Sure, there was the part in Empire Strikes Back where Luke lost his hand and […]

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I’d never before played an import game. This whole thing was really kind of an accident. Wait – I’m not making any sense. Lemme ‘splain. No, there is too much. Lemme sum up. I’d been wanting to play Prototype for a while, and when I found a copy the PC version on EBay for $20 whereas it’s […]

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