Monday, October 26, 2009

10 Reasons NOT to Date a Girl Gamer


1.It would be embarrassing if she were better at video games than you. Here you envisioned long co-op jaunts crusading against alien invasions, teaching her to play Portal by romantically holding her hands over the controller, and getting cozy while sniping from a bunker in Call of Duty, but here she is, curb-stomping your face over and over in Gears of War multiplayer. You don't even have to wait to wear that pink sweater she bought you for your birthday to be emasculated.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Risen: The Review

The good thing about being an RPG fan is that we get good value for money. Whereas an action game can be ten to twenty hours long, it’s not uncommon for an RPG to be forty to sixty. That’s a lot of game.

The bad thing about being an RPG fan is that less of them seem to come out. This is understandable, it’s easier to churn out this year’s sports franchise by simply changing the player rosters and making a couple of superficial tweaks, whereas a good RPG needs tons and tons of wholly original content.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

This Week in Gaming: October 3rd-9th

If you thought you heard the sound of a legion of fanboys getting erections at the same time this week, then it was probably because analysts have predicted that from this month to the end of the year, the PS3 may finally outsell the X360. Let me be the first to say that unless you have shares in either Microsoft or Sony, this shouldn’t really matter. But you and I both know that for some gamers this will either be the best or the worst news of the year.

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Video Games IRL





Check out the other 9 videog games in real life, here!