Archive for August, 2008

Tom Chick don’t surf.

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Bangai-O Spirits is really terrible.

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You could say Too Human has cornered the market on the cyber-Norse motif.

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I can’t imagine sitting around a tabletop saying things out loud like, "I’m going to research more choppy for my slugga boyz."

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My theory as to why Monster Madness and its recent Playstation 3 iteration, Grave Danger, got such bad reviews is that too few people know about Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

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…check out Sophitia and Ivy. Heh heh. Heh. Heh. Watch what happens when she jumps. Heh heh.

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Braid is an absolutely brilliant game and quite possibly a work of genius. I don’t like it one bit.

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This is old-school gaming, a boys’ pursuit, geared to fast reflexes and a strident disregard for ninny concerns like narrative and atmosphere.

QuakeCon 2008 coverage

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The only surprising moment is when the player takes control of an abominable snowman who has trundled down from the Himalayas to mercilessly pummel some Chinese soldiers. After that, fighting a three-headed dragon is kind of anticlimactic.

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If there were rats, they’d be called something different…maybe rats would be sarkinnens or rosthards. Perhaps dingushuffers.

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We’re gonna need a bigger squad. I’ve enlisted Erik Wolpaw, who will join us in a strictly advisory position.

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Think of it as a dungeon hack for the Homeland Security era.

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