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Monday Maddness
Prototype Over the weekend I spent several hours enjoying Prototype. I was expecting a bit more of an “open world” game, one in which I could explore around the city and find all sorts of activities to do while ignoring the “plot”.  This game instead has activities which unlock at fixed intervals after each…
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Some Movie Posters
An old friend of mine has a new movie review based blog; Babble-on 5. Today he poster his top five movie posters, and while I think the five he picked are great there are several more I would have to consider for my list. I am sure given more time I could find many more.…
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E3 ‘09: Thoughts part 2
Yes, I know I did not make it back last night; sorry. (Apologizing to myself is a bit odd *shrug*) Anyway after the break I get back to my quick hits about games and game news from E3’09
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E3 ’09: Thoughts part 1
Even though I have seen the smoke and mirrors first hand I still fall for it every year. You need to remember that while watching all the E3 coverage E3 is all about generating hype. Yes, sometimes that hype is achieved by showing what is mostly real gameplay, but for most games on display its…
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Friday Freakout
The Sims 3 While I did enjoy playing around with my little sims in both previous games, I have never been an avid Sims player. I did not buy any of the 15+ expansions that were released for the previous games, and I doubt I will be buy any for this third installment. But that…
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Tuesday Tidbit
Feeling Powerful Last night I decided to give one of my wow alts some attention. I had a level 5 Blood Elf Rogue sitting at Falconwing Square and I decided to load her up with bags, the Heirloom shoulders and Heirloom daggers (enchanted of course).  Over the course of the evening I played her…
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Questions about my gaming history
Over the years when I have interviewed at game studios I almost always get asked a few questions that are used, I guess, to find out more about an applicants gaming history/passion. For some reason these questions make me crazy, because they seem to me more like a question people would answer over coffee or…
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Friday Freakout
City of Heroes Mission Architect Farming The CoH devs have decided to crack down on MA farming, specifically badge farming. To sum up their response; say bye bye to lots of current badges. My first gut reaction was, “ugh” removing content from a game = bad. Then I started to come around a bit. Only…