While at the Kindergarten meet-and-greet for my daughter’s upcoming indoctrination into our public schools system, I noticed that not many (in fact really none) of the other parents there seemed to be a “gamer.”  Well, really, even a true “nerd” or “geek” or “dork.”  They were all…normal.  I imagine they’d buy games for their kids, [...]

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I don’t know if it’s lack of sleep, but I’m especially cranky today.  I’m tired of seeing not-news and even less interesting posts about stuff that is barely even tangentially related to gaming flooding gaming (and non gaming!) sites.  Can we all agree that this shit can just die now and people can come up [...]

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I figured since it’s been awhile since I wrote something (enter excuses here) I’d take the easy route out and offer up a unique opinion on the whole DLC kerfluffle that’s going on right now in gaming news circles.
Hokay, so everyone is pretty much upset at Capcom for releasing multiplayer as DLC content, and then [...]

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No time for a real post right now, but I found this just doing some old fashioned weblink surfing.
Is this some kind of Silent Hill art?

Found here.

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How tough?  Look, if Ken Levine has to start moving real-estate to make a living, we might as well all just give up.
Saw this while visiting some friends.  Had to snap a pic and share with the class.

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Awhile back at work we got into a water cooler balancing discussion, mostly regarding multiplayer and how elegantly a game such as Team Fortress 2 is balanced, even despite the regular updates to only a single specific class in the game.
The conversation started at a very high level, looking at how there’s a “fast” but [...]

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