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Every Game Should Have a Hammer – Initial Impressions of Red Faction: Armageddon
I’m not sure I actually completed the demo for Red Faction I got from the Official PlayStation Magazine back in the early 2000s, because I quickly realized I could blow holes through walls and nothing else seemed important. I think I picked up both of the PlayStation 2 Red Faction games at some point, but most…
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Go watch The Nice Guys
I remember chuckling at the trailer for The Nice Guys, a raunchy, 70s detective movie from Shane Black, back before it came out, but I completely forgot about it until looking at a list of 2016 releases a few weeks ago. I picked it from the local library, and I’m so glad this movie didn’t end up slipping completely…
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What is Spirited Away about?
I found out a few weeks ago that my wife had never seems Miyazaki movie, so I immediately requested a copy of Spirited Away from the library. When I suggested watching it the other day, she asked “What’s it about?”, and I found myself totally flummoxed. It’d been years since I’d seen the movie, but…
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Mass Effect 3: Shepard Looks Like and Is a Total Goober, and It’s All My Fault
When the first Mass Effect game came out, way back in the long lost age of 2007, I was an angsty teenager with a red pleather jacket, long hair, and a really horrible attempt at a goatee; and one of my favorite parts of any video game was the ability to create my own character. Clearly,…
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On Wingsuits: Far Cry 4, Batman Arkham Origins, and and Just Cause 3
Flight seems like one of the most overpowered superpowers there is. Characters who can fly almost always seem to do so effortlessly… Do you ever see Superman needing a cool down period after a quick trip across the Atlantic to the Londinium Batcave? Heck no. In video games, developers seem to recognize that the ability…
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