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03 Feb, 2008

Game Review: Kingdom Under Fire-Circle of Doom

Posted by: dawngrrl In: Gaming| Xbox 360

I am in one of those uncomfortable phases where I don’t have a new heartthrob title to finish.  Aside from my staple Halo 3 matches, I finished Mass Effect and At Worlds End, and have been trying a few different games, desperately seeking something to get attached to.    The Boy Genius happened to pick [...]

Sometimes you pick up a game and fall in love with it. Other times you grab something at the store and instantly feel remorse and anger at the likely $15 trade in price.
Some games make you have to sit back and try and spin valuable brain cycles deciding if you actually liked it or [...]

08 Dec, 2007

December 2007 Gaming Update

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Gaming| Playstation3

I haven’t blogged for a few days and honestly I was kind of at a loss as of what to post. I usually don’t go this long, but the biggest news in my life right now resolves around Microsoft and I am hesitant to blog too much until I have been formally educated on the [...]

I am almost feeling like the “Bring Back the 80s” episodes we all don’t admit to watching on VH1. I played Half-Life on PC. I loved Half-Life on PC. I somehow skipped over Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress but I never forgot how much I enjoyed Half-Life. Like an almost popular comedian who vents [...]

18 Oct, 2007

Halo 3 Save Games are 10MB!!!???

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Xbox 360

Tonight, Dawn was deleting her save game in Halo 3 to start another. When she went to the drive to delete it, I noticed something nuts. A Halo 3 Save game is a whopping 10 MB. What in the world could it be saving? There are no custom images or textures. Even if it had [...]

14 Oct, 2007

Mario Level Plays Itself with No User Interaction

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Gaming

Mario Level Can Autoplay - Watch more free videos
How funny is this? Put down the controller, let the level start, and the game moves Mario through the entire level without pushing one button.

As funny as the title sounds, it’s a serious question. Dawngrrl is rapidly approaching level 58, the magical age in which she gets to hop along to the new zones and really start to see the Burning Crusades expansion.
I have still not even purchased the expansion. My Undead Warlock, Philoboy, has been marred at [...]



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