6 Mission Types in Games that Make Me Cringe
Those aren’t quests, they sound more like errands to me. While our games share many differences quest variety is not one of them, not usually at least. It doesn’t seem to matter what game I’m…
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The Plight of Poor Worf
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs For some strange reason I grew up watching Voyager instead of TNG, but I do appreciate it as probably the objectively “best” Star Trek series. That said, I’m surprised it lasted so long as…
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Screw Nostalgia: Why Gaming is Better Now
I almost fell into another blogging trap where I was tempted to write about how good games used to be, and how things have changed for the worse now. The whole Mass Effect 3 ending…
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Another Round of Feudal Video Games from Jed Henry
(click to enlarge) It seems that I missed quite a few of Jed Henry’s feudal video games, a series we’ve been revisiting over the course of the past week. I stumbled upon his personal site…
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A Comprehensive Timeline of the Nerdification of My Girlfriend
The road from “girl I just met” to “fiancee” is a rather long one. It’s taken me two and a half years to make the journey, and there have been many transformations along the way….
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The Avengers Meets Team Fortress
(click to enlarge) From artist SilSol comes an imagining of what it might look like if Team Fortress characters crossed over into the Avengers universe. In my estimation they’ve got five out of the six casted correctly,…
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Pikachu Has a Bad Trip
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Izm1LQfw4 Words seem to fail me as I try to properly describe this video. It’s a bizarre cartoon that shows Pokemon in a way we’ve never seen before, and things go from weird to even weirder as…
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Can Nothing but Sequels and Remakes Keep PC Gaming Alive?
Oddly fitting these days. Last week saw the release of May’s gaming sales numbers which, except for Blizzard’s Diablo 3 and Nintendo’s 3DS, was pretty much all bad news across the board. Hardware sales were…
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Feudal Starfox and Friends
(click to enlarge) Artist Jed Henry has already shown us what Mega Man, Link and Samus would look like if they returned to their feudal Japanese roots, but now he’s continuing the series with a…