December 2009
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“Q: Have your game-playing habits changed over the years?
A: As I grew up and...”
– excerpt from A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games And Their Players by Jesper Juul, via Kotaku. It mirrors my own sentiments exactly.
{Forum Trawling} Year of the PS3
YoungHav: lol @ the people that can't admit PS3 outclassed 360 when it came to games this year. Next yr will be a better yr for the 360 than this one.
Karma: LOL @ the people that can`t admit McDonalds outclassed Burger King when it came to food this year. I mean I don't think that Burger King or the Taco Bell have an exclusive lineup that can rival Big Mac, Big N Tasty, Double Quarter Pounder, Egg McMuffin, McNuggets and Filet-O-Fish. And the really impressive thing is how many different kinds of items there are in that list.
taken from NeoGAF
Clash of Genres
I’m an hour into Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes for the DS, and so far the game is way better than a game with that generic title really deserves to be. The comparisons to the JRPG-and-Bejeweled mashup Puzzle Quest are totally apt, and just like chocolate and peanut butter, the two great tastes contained here do indeed taste great together.
By layering RPG and battle elements on top of...
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Make Us Whole Again
Contrary to my previous post, I have actually been picking up the occasional new game here and there. My most recent acquisition was Dead Space: Extraction, which is a really brilliant little Wii title that got saddled with a ton of unnecessary Internet drama. (Not that any Internet drama has ever been necessary since Al Gore invented the World Wide Web.) As the third-party lightgun spinoff of a...
Beat It! →
My current iPhone obsession—the lovechild of a music sequencer and a puzzle game.
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The Backlog Challenge
Do you typically buy bottles of beer and leave them half-finished? Partially guzzled, sitting on countertops and TV trays and magazine covers? Would you buy a Happy Meal and not finish your French fries, thus making it a Only-Mildly-Happy Meal?
I end up doing this very same practice with video games, which is funny because the average game costs about 30 bottles of beer or 8 Happy Meals. (Wait,...