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Dragon Age Origins: Thoughts On Having Finished The Game

January 7, 2010

Finishing Dragon Age: Origins feels great. Not because the game was awesome (which it was) or the ending really worked (which it did), but because it’s nice to have that monkey off my back. Seriously – looking at the stats, I put 90 hours, 3 minutes and 36 seconds into this monster of a game, [...]

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The Flasher: Desktop Tower Defense

December 19, 2009

The Flasher! – The Net’s Flash-iest Flash Games Reviewed In A…Fast Time! In the time I’ve spent playing Desktop Tower Defense I could have: Learned to play guitar. Learned to stop insulting people. Shut up, you jerk. Desktop Tower Defense didn’t invent the tower defense genre, but there’s no reason for it to have continued [...]

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The Flasher: Mastermind – World Conqueror

December 18, 2009

The Flasher! – The Net’s Flash-iest Flash Games Reviewed In A…Quick! Take the tech trees of Civ, the resource management of SimCity and a supervillian plotting to destroy the world. Congratulations, you’ve created Mastermind: World Conquerer, a delightful flash game that’s a funny as it is fun to play.

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Dragon Age: Origins (Full Review)

December 15, 2009

My two little brothers, both Counterstrike champions, separately warned me not to play Dragon Age: Origins. “It’s too good – you’ll do nothing but play it,” they said. “It’s much better than KotR, and you loved that game,” they said. “Please, don’t spend the holidays playing it,” they begged. So, I’m playing it now, and [...]

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Gratuitous Space Battles: Everything Works But The Game

December 15, 2009

Gratuitous Space Battles caught my attention with the name itself, steeped in the ironic tradition of, You Have To Burn The Rope or I Wanna Be The Guy!! These three games have something else in common: they play more as artistic commentary than fun games.

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Star Trek: D.A.C. is D.O.A.

December 14, 2009

Bad Robot? Bad Game! $10 is far, far too much for Star Trek: DAC, released by Paramount Digital Entertainment for PC just last month. In Star Trek: DAC, you get your pick of any number of annoying, easily destroyed starships and head off into adventure! That is, if your idea of adventure is mindlessly shooting [...]

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