I’ve been thinking recently about the integration of minigames into so many of the games we play. Some are good, some are really good, and some are just plain bad. Compare for example the game of Yong in Dark Earth to the horrible conversation minigame in Oblivion. Yong was an Othello variant, and it was […]

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It’s not a problem that you often see in the Spring. Sure, when it’s November, we’re flooded with games. But the first quarter or two of the year are generally devoid of game releases. Right now, in addition to the games you can see I’m playing over in my gamercard at the left, I’ve got […]

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After having completed most of the content in Plants vs Zombies, I’m still playing the game. As a tribute, I thought I’d take this opportunity to detail my five most favoritest plants and my five most hated zombies. Firstly, the pumpkin. It’s far more expensive than the wall-nut, and has primarily the same effect. However, […]

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Okay, so the week isn’t even over yet, but they’ve announced some pretty cool things at E3. I’ve been browsing reports, and here are the items that jumped out at me. Project Natal  Project Natal for the XBox 360 seems to be taking the idea of the Wii remote and improving it by using a […]

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You may not have heard of Onlive, but it’s currently a big deal. What is Onlive? Cloud gaming. Services like Steam (of which I’m a big fan) already allow you to purchase games online and download them. Now imagine taking a low-end PC and running Crysis with no problem. That’s Onlive. The processing is done […]

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It seems fewer and further between than when I was younger, but every so often while I’m playing a game, there’s a particular moment or event that’s just so damned satisfying. For you, it might be getting some great loot from a raid, blasting off three guys’ heads with a single shotgun blast, or getting […]

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Sorry for the continued pieces on Fable 2 but it’s all I’ve been playing outside of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix.  For the record, I’m a woman in PQ as well, however it has no bearing on the story.  The woman in the picture is just pretty to look at.  I’m also a unicorn at times in […]

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For some reason I usually play as women when playing RPG’s.  Maybe it’s because I’m a man in real life, so playing as a woman represents a new experience.  Maybe it’s because if I’m going to be staring at someone’s ass for 40 hours, I’d prefer it to be a female one.  I truly have […]

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The DSi launches on Sunday and I am giddy with excitement. When the DSi was first announced, I was pretty ho-hum about it.  At the same time, I knew I would buy one as the need to purchase new Nintendo hardware is coded into my very genetic code.  I was ho-hum about the original DS, […]

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I know that this doesn’t have to do with video gaming, but it is gaming related so I’m going with it. Today I started to take apart our pool table. My father-in-law bought this pool table from Montgomery Wards in 1975 making the pool table only slightly younger than me.  For years it stayed in […]

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