I recently finished playing Dead Space, which I quite enjoyed. The next Playstation 3 game I’m looking at is Resident Evil 5. They’re both ostensibly survival horror titles, although Resident Evil has certainly slid away from that. I think there’s a lot of similarity between the two games, but more specifically, there’s a similarity between […]

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…well, it’s certainly one of my two or three favorites in the game. And it’s probably the hardest non-optional stealth room in the game. Because I couldn’t screenshot from within the game, I took this shot with a digital camera. You’ve got to climb down that ladder, hide behind the crates at the base of […]

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One of my first impressions when I started playing Crysis was that it was a heck of a lot like Far Cry, albeit better looking. Aside from standard FPS mechanics, both titles let you toggle lying prone, and both contain a meter next to the mini-map to indicate enemy awareness of you, not unlike the […]

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I’m replaying Beyond Good & Evil for the (don’t laugh at me) fifth time with Brainy Gamer‘s Vintage Game Club. It’s true – I’ve played the game four times before, and purchased four copies of the game over the years. But about a year ago, when I made a list of my favorite 51 games […]

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When Michel Ancel announced that he was working on a sequel to what may be my favorite game of all time, I was ecstatic. But upon seeing the hyperrealistic look of the teaser trailer, I became a bit uncertain. This game might have been a better fit for the Wii than for the XBox 360 […]

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I finally finished Mercenaries 2 this morning.  Technically, I finished it last night, but I had one achievement left which I knocked out this morning while riding the exercise bike.  Oh yeah, I can snipe vehicle drivers while working out. I am just that good.  On second thought, that explains why I haven’t lost any […]

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At this point of time, I think it’s safe to say that I’m done with Gears of War 2. I’ve fought through the campaign multiple times, finished all 50 levels of Horde mode and ground out every achievement that I can reasonably expect myself to get.  I have no desire to play the game’s multiplayer […]

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I’ve never played World of Warcraft, or any MMO for that matter, but a recent Penny Arcade Comic made me start thinking about how the “quests” in so many RPGs simply require you to travel to a faraway location, and either find an item, kill an enemy, or simply visit point A, then point B, […]

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With my time in Stilwater officially at an end, I started up Gears of War 2 and have been progressing through the campaign all co-op style with my partner in crime from Saints Row 2. GoW2 is a great looking game with plenty of action, tons of goofy dialog and many, many, many pitched, frantic […]

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England’s Telegraph newspaper has reported that pets in the United Kingdom are being injured by video game consoles and other electronics at an alarming rate, and they’ve published a list of the ten most egregious offenders. While they lead us to believe that the majority of these injuries come from pets chewing on power wires, […]

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