Category Archives: videogames

Lunacy

It’s been a couple of months since Gameloft’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic application was released, to much initial joy. It took the traditional “click things and then wait a long time” city building game, added just enough story … Continue reading

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Fists of Fairy

  The last time I stayed home from work sick – coincidentally, LAST december – I wound up watching 37 episodes of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” in a three-day marathon session.  While this didn’t do anything for my … Continue reading

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Nothing Explodes In This Game

  As a boy-type person, I am of course hard-coded to enjoy things blowing up.  I’m not saying I rate games and movies by explosions per hour, or anything silly like that, but it certainly can’t hurt to have the … Continue reading

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Fairly Special Ops.

  It’s rare that I buy a game within its first six months of release these days, and rarer still that I play it through to its conclusion in the same time frame.  Steam sales have conditioned me to wait … Continue reading

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No Kool-Aid Involved

Every once in a while, I feel the need to put aside the triple-A manshooting games and work on regaining my Indie Game Hipster Cred.  This last week has been a banner week for that, with Bastion, Limbo, and now … Continue reading

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How to tell if Limbo is the Game For You.

  I realize that I’m a bit late to the party when it comes to Limbo.  I have a healthy mistrust of the entire “puzzle platform” genre after getting burned by Braid and neutered by Nyxquest. OK, that’s enough attempted … Continue reading

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I finished some games for a change.

Some quick comments on some recent conquests. Earth Defense Force : Insect Armageddon (PS3) (Also: Xbox 360, PC) Sequel to Earth Defense Force 2017 and a much more polished game in all regards.  There’s more story – and it’s honestly … Continue reading

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Strap on your kitty ears, and save the world.

  With every computer with any kind of muscle around here spending most of its life crunching h.264, I haven’t done a whole lot of gaming. Well, I did have a good friend over for a day of blowing up … Continue reading

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A Catgirl Saved Is A Catgirl Earned

I really didn’t want to download Save Toshi, because it looked like a game designed specifically to cash in on people in their Oh My God Japan Is So Cool And Everything About Japan Is Just So Awesome phase. I … Continue reading

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Experiments in TERA

Way back in “The Day”, I played Everquest over Ultima Online because, well, Ultima Online had full-on PvP combat, which scared the hell out of me, on all its servers, whereas Everquest only allowed PvP on one (later, four) of … Continue reading

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