Okay, so yeah. Blog has had to take a backseat to things like “having found a job” and “wanting to stay employed” and “Gee, my house sure is dirty since I went back to work or my standard of living is just higher now”. My apologies but things are probably going to be sporadic from [...]
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PETA has never been my favorite group of people. While I do believe that animals should be treated humanely, I draw the line at picketing KFC. I like chicken and for fucks sake, they’re chickens. But now PETA has decided that killing more animals per year than anyone else, promoting celebrity spokespeople that seem unclear [...]
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Every now and then, when my daughter (who is four) is happily shooting mutants with her older brother or using Princess Peach to smack down Kirby and the Ice Climbers (because Peach is wearing a pink dress and therefore that makes her the best character ever…duh) I sometimes wonder if maybe she shouldn’t be. After [...]
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Have you heard about “Flock!” ? If yes, please skip down to where Capcom deceived me in my stupor this morning. If no, please check out the following explanation and video. Flock is your basic herding game. I know, the herding animals genre is so overdone, but stay with me. In Flock, you play from [...]
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The zombies are coming! The zombies are coming! Err wait, they’re already here…and no one seems to mind. Awesome. At least this is the only logical conclusion I can come to. In the last year the game industry has been literally overrun with zombie games, ranging from gory to silly to thought provoking. Don’t believe [...]
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m out of the loop. But the last time I had a phone that could play games, I was moving a pixilated snake around the screen to eat dots. I’ve been living in the darks ages of “need to eat” instead of “spiffy phone” for too long. But no more! I’ve thrown [...]
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Video games play a variety of roles in people’s lives. They can alleviate the desire to strangle co-workers, they can be used as a social gathering for friends and they can definitely entertain. Rarely do they ask us to think deep thoughts. But some believe that the medium can and is being harnessed for this. [...]
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Since the inception of the video game console, the genre has been regarded by non-gamers with a range of emotions from cool disdain to outright hostility. Games have been regarded as an anti-social, brain diminishing waste of time. The industry has endured blame for everything from obesity in children to school shootings. However, Nintendo has [...]
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