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I Buy My Mom Video Games Every Mother’s Day. It Helped Heal Her.
Mother’s Day is this weekend, and so the commercials for flowers and jewelry and Hallmark cards are incessant and overwhelming. But this year, for a gift, I did exactly what I did last May: I went to Amazon and I ordered my mom a new video game. My mother and I get along very well,…
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UncategorizedThis Physics Puzzler is Amazeballs
The idea of rolling a virtual ball around the screen is not new. Nor is the idea of a physics-emulating puzzler. What I’m looking for, when I try a mobile app fitting that description, is execution and charm. Amazeballs provides. It’s not complicated. At least, not at first. Press button for rotation, roll ball around,…
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UncategorizedAll Your Favorite Video Game Characters Are Saying Terrible Things
All of the best moments in Unnecessary Censorship is brought to you in this Season 1 round-up. We’ve featured a few like it before, but these come from YouTube user WandTCorporation. I think I even spotted some necrophilia in there.
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UncategorizedAnd Then The Secret World Got All Naked
When I first installed and started The Secret World earlier this week, I encountered a tiny graphical glitch: everybody was naked. Not completely naked, mind you. I mean, they all had underwear on, and some of the shirts still showed up. There were just an awful lot of topless women and pantsless men running about.…
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UncategorizedEight Lessons Learned During My First Foray into The Secret World
The first beta weekend event for The Secret World kicks off today, giving countless players their first tantalizing taste of Funcom’s modern day massively multiplayer paranormal role-playing game, but there are tales of a hidden server — a server where members of the gaming press have had days to explore the dark corners of the…
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