There’s a buzz in the air. That time of year is quickly approaching once more. The time when thousands of people descend upon America’s malls and department stores and consume, consume, consume. But this year, many more of us are on a budget. It can be tough to get yourself to spend $60 on a […]

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This is something that had driven me absolutely nuts. When I started playing Fallout 3 on Tuesday, I decided that it would make sense to map the V.A.T.S. key, which defaults to “V”, to my mouse 4 button instead. After all, I bought this nice fancy mouse specifically so I could do stuff like that. […]

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Today’s Free Game Friday special is a long-time favorite of mine. Taking the best aspects from that era’s Ultima and Bard’s Tale games, Wasteland improved upon them and created something unique. In the post-nuclear world of Wasteland, you create a party of desert rangers, assigning points to their pistol, SMG, assault rifle, and other various […]

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I think I first started playing the Baldur’s Gate games back in 1999, and was thrilled to find a computer RPG based on Dungeons and Dragons, which I’d been playing with friends for years. At the time, I hadn’t played a D&D based video game since the gold box series on my Commodore 64. Flash […]

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I’ve been looking forward to Fallout 3. A lot. I’d be happy skipping Spore, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and the new Ghostbusters game, so long as I get to play Fallout 3. At PAX, Bethesda released the Fallout 3 survival guide in pdf format. What can I say? It’s made of win. You can […]

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I’d been planning to write this week about the different platforms on which Spore is going to be available as of this Sunday. I’d been planning on discussing the potential pros and cons of each platform and asking readers on which platform they’d be playing Spore. I’d been planning to do this… until I went […]

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I’ve begun to notice recently that there are a lot of fairly good games that you can get online for free without stealing them. Personally, I prefer ninjas to pirates, so I’m going with the legally acquirable games. On this coming Sunday the 31st, Red Alert will be thirteen years old. Electronic Arts, to celebrate […]

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