Archive for March, 2008

  • The Byron Review

    The Byron Review

    If you have time today try and make a point of reading the Byron Review. If you don’t want to wade through the pages upon pages of the full report you can browse the Executive Summary and get a lot of the information quickly. It’s...

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  • Downloading Fun

    Downloading Fun

    In this week’s entry: Downloadable Content Downloadable Games: N+ This puzzler/platformer is yet another game that combines what I love about puzzle games with another genre. The basic premise is simple enough. Open a door and bypass gates by hitting switches. You jump to the...

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  • Subtitled

    Subtitled

    I’m a huge proponent of loot and the collecting of. It’s for this very reason that I do not invest time in World of Warcraft. I would most likely grind character after character enjoying the loot all too much until I find out there’s no...

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  • Defying Expectations

    Defying Expectations

    Our discussion of cultural norms and the protagonists of video games made me stretch my mind. I wanted to think of a game that made me play characters I didn’t naturally identified with but could appreciate after playing. I don’t remember if I talked about it on...

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  • How can it not know what it is?

    How can it not know what it is?

    I’m ashamed to say that I had never, before Friday, seen Blade Runner. A fact that I had always felt put my nerd cred in jeopardy of being completely null and void. A group of friends were over at my place Friday night and didn’t...

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