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	<description>.game critique. game design. game development. game culture.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Focus Testing is Important</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/12/21/why-focus-testing-is-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So HP recently developed a smart web cam that will track your face as you move around a room (I don&#8217;t know, don&#8217;t ask me, maybe some people do web conferencing/skype/nudie cam while standing up).  It works really really great!
If you&#8217;re not black.
I guess the HP techs designed it to look for contrasts between your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Left 4 Dead Personality Mod</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/10/20/the-left-4-dead-personality-mod/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/10/20/the-left-4-dead-personality-mod/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[That you&#8217;ll never play.*
Awhile ago Justin Keverne wrote a piece, the Taxonomy of Left 4 Dead, which compared the characters in L4D to the MUD definitions of online game players set forth by Richard A. Bartle.  It&#8217;s a pretty insightful piece, pointing out that the characters emulate the four different type of players (Bill is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Old is New Again</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/08/26/everything-old-is-new-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/08/26/everything-old-is-new-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[capcom]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[elevator action]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.game-ism.com/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now more than ever, I find myself with even less time to actually play games, and so I&#8217;m looking for experiences that involve smaller bites of gameplay that don&#8217;t ask me to spend hours and hours at a time on the stick.
I normally shy away from XBLA type titles because previously, for me, the value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back, Baby.</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/08/25/im-back-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/08/25/im-back-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, guess what?  I didn&#8217;t know I was going to take a (looks over at date on previous post) THREE MONTH HIATUS?~??!!!? Jeeeeebus who do I think I am, anyway?
Wow, looking back previously, I&#8217;ve realized that I&#8217;ve really fallen off the writing/design/critiquing wagon, and usually put a small apology at the beginning of each post, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FYI, This is Not a Spy</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/06/01/fyi-this-is-not-a-spy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/06/01/fyi-this-is-not-a-spy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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I couldn&#8217;t resist.  The Spy&#8217;s new hat just had me laughing at its awesomeness, and thinking about the &#8220;FYI, I am a Spy&#8221; sprays that originally started popping up when TF2 first came out.
Every so often I just geek out on nerd culture + art culture, and this is the result.  If you don&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it&#8217;s Not Broke&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/06/01/if-its-not-broke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/06/01/if-its-not-broke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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Okay, I have a serious bone to pick with the most recent TF2 Spy/Sniper Update.  At risk of throwing any dev cred I may have once had, I&#8217;m going to just come out and say it:  it feels unbalanced.
Now, I know, I know, someone, at some point, has cried foul at every other update.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate the Spy (Movie)</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/05/18/debate-the-spy-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/05/18/debate-the-spy-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 03:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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So, the Spy Update is complete (although they never revealed his 3rd kit upgrade, unless it IS the portable Baccarat detector), and already there is some fun debate over a tiny tidbit in the short.
First off, this is super spoiler laden, so if you haven&#8217;t watch it yet, go see it in HD here.  Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Cow</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/05/17/holy-cow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/05/17/holy-cow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 04:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile, no?  I have a perfectly good excuse.  In fact, it&#8217;s so good, it&#8217;s not an excuse.
Work has been pretty frustrating lately; my project was shelved and now I&#8217;ve been pretty much battlefield demoted or side-moted or whatever the &#8220;moted&#8221; you want to call it to a position that I used to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ranting Back at the GDC09 Game Critics Rant.</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/04/01/ranting_back_gdc09_game_critics_rant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/04/01/ranting_back_gdc09_game_critics_rant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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I&#8217;m back from GDC and slowly climbing back onto the writing horse.  I&#8217;d apologize for taking forever between posts again but hey let&#8217;s be honest, I&#8217;ve been doing a ton of that lately so let&#8217;s just move on.
I saw some great talks, but one that kinda bothered me in a way and yet at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is How They See Our Hobby</title>
		<link>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/03/23/this-is-how-they-see-our-hobby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.game-ism.com/2009/03/23/this-is-how-they-see-our-hobby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While at the Kindergarten meet-and-greet for my daughter&#8217;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 &#8220;gamer.&#8221;  Well, really, even a true &#8220;nerd&#8221; or &#8220;geek&#8221; or &#8220;dork.&#8221;  They were all&#8230;normal.  I imagine they&#8217;d buy games for their kids, [...]]]></description>
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