So Capcom just confirmed Resident Evil 6, due to come out on November 20. Great! I’ve played each of the numbered Resident Evil games to completion and loved them all, even if I’ve found all the even-numbered games to be superior. I’m hoping that RE6 is also awesome. Not that it matters, but here’s a […]

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Disclaimer: There are many concerns about kids and video games, and so I’ll state up-front that parents absolutely need to be familiar with the games that their children play and the ESRB ratings of those games. You should no more let your child play Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto than you should let […]

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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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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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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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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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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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I bought my wife a copy of Zuma’s Revenge for Christmas this year, and so far she’s loved the game. I like Zuma as well. Before we had Zuma 2, we’d been taking turns playing the original Zuma on our Playstation 3, each on our own profiles. At some point, I’d love to try out […]

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Hello, Lungfishopolis! I almost forgot you were there. It’s been a while. Part of the reason I haven’t written is because I’ve felt that I have nothing interesting to say. But in the end, if it’s between a boring blog post and nothing at all, I suppose I should at least post something boring if […]

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Sequels. They’ve been around for nearly a century. Thankfully, in the video game world, sequels more often than not end up better than the games before them. And while I’m very much looking forward to Portal 2, Dragon Age 2, and most of all Beyond Good and Evil 2, those sequels have already been announced. […]

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