I’ve just encountered a disheartening example of corporate personhood. The argument against piracy is primarily that the creators of a given work should continue to receive recompense for that work. Pirates deprive them of that profit. Do you know what else deprives them of the same profit? Publishers who come into ownership of their IP. […]

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It wasn’t until I lost my internet connection for two weeks as part of the Connecticut Snow Apocalypse 2011 that I was really bothered by single-player games that function only when connected to the cloud. It started when I was playing Atom Zombie Smasher. It’s a steam game, so it was constantly trying to sync […]

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So I’ve been reviewing the “Playstation Customer Appreciation Program”, which is really just a giant apology to everyone with a PSN account. We’re sorry we let somebody steal your credit card info from us; here, have a really old game. Everything’s okay now, right? I’ve got a whole bunch of thoughts on this, but let’s […]

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Last night was my first real night of video game playing after our big cross-country move. I fired up Uncharted 2 and was forced to spend 45 minutes downloading an update, during which time I played some Dragon Age: Awakening on my PC. It’s hard to look at Uncharted 2 and call it anything other […]

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I’ve had some seriously bad luck recently with games. This weekend, after getting thoroughly trounced by a revenant in Dragon Age for the sixth time, I decided to fire up the Playstation, and I played some Trine. That platinum trophy has been seeming more and more attainable. I managed to get every experience vial in […]

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I’m kind of half and half on my response here as I don’t completely agree with Greg on the “overrated” status of the games he mentions, but with the exception of KOTOR, I ain’t exactly in love with ’em either, just for different reasons. Now, when it comes to Knights of the Old Republic, I […]

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I’m going to piss off a lot of people now by talking about how I think some of the best-loved games in the past few years weren’t actually that good. Much of this might have to do with my personal opinion of Bioware’s game engines, since two of my three example games here are from […]

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Towards the end of last week, I got restless with the games I had to play. Borderlands and Dragon Age: Origins were still a couple weeks from release, and although I still had Final Fantasy XII to finish, I really just felt like playing something else. I played halfway through Half-Life 2 episode 2, I […]

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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’ve always considered myself fairly good at video games. I used to kick all my friends’ asses at multiplayer Armored Core on the Playstation, and I ruled the Street Fighter 2 machine with an iron fist. But recently, I’ve been sucking. And I’m not just talking about all the Street Fighter 4 players that are […]

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