Tag Archives: xbox

Stay A While, And…Hey, Where Are You Going?

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

A year ago on this very blog I was worried that Diablo 3 was overheating my computer. I hadn’t done any current-era gaming on this machine before and had no idea if this was okay or not (it was okay). … Continue reading →

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“What Kind of Death?” “The DANGEROUS Kind.”

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

This crazy thing dropped a week ago and I interrupted Prince of Persia to play it. Blood Dragon is a strange thing, it’s basically a Far Cry 3 mod, but completely separate from and playable without the original game. It’s … Continue reading →

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Seriously, I Can’t Stress How Important Jumping Is

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

I finished Tomb Raider, to little fanfare. As I said originally, it was a pretty average game that for some reason an entire company bet its existance on. If a copy were to somehow find its way into your Xbox … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Do This

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

I wasn’t going to talk about Tomb Raider yet because I’m only about halfway through, but here we are anyway. I played the original Tomb Raider back on my PS1, and I don’t remember if I played TR2 or not, … Continue reading →

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A Strangely Moving Borderlands 2 Moment

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

The videogame world is abuzz over Bioshock Infinite, and I’ll probably succumb once the price goes down despite being the only person who didn’t love the original. (Seriously, just about every review of Infinite starts with, “We all agree that … Continue reading →

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XBox Update: Students in Peril, Elevator Inaction, Return to Pandora

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

This weekend Becky and I finished up Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 on the Xbox. After the disappointingly buggy Lord of the Rings it was nice to play a Lego game that actually worked. We got to 100% on it … Continue reading →

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I’m Playing Fez Now. Fez is Cool.

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

When I didn’t really want to play another shooter, I tried out Fez, a little indie platform game I’d heard about. The concept behind it is simple yet utterly brilliant. The protagonist, Gomez, lives in a standard, two-dimension world, and … Continue reading →

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Loading Up on Videogames Before NOBAMA Takes Them Away

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

Spoiler: turns out he was just misunderstood all along. I finished Borderlands 2 last week. It was a grand time, and I ultimately gave in to my natural urges and started sniping again because dammit, I’m a sniper and I … Continue reading →

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