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Browsing Posts published in February, 2010

Introduction: I love games with spaceships in them, and have played almost every game for the PC with a spaceship in it since the mid 1980′s. Why am I bringing this up? Because the game I’m reviewing in, Star Wolves 3: Civil War, is just littered with spaceships. Does that make me more biased, or [...]

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Wow, is this what the Serbs think of Star Trek: The Next Generation? It’s amazing nonetheless…

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So didya ever see the movie, “Troll 2″? I did when I was much younger, and I thought it was absolute crap, but in a good way. It’s one of those movies you watch to make fun of, like any movie on Mystery Science Theater 3000, or films like “300″. Well, I just got a [...]

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Now I’m just getting into college football my own self, thanks to a girlfriend who’s really into it, so I’ve been learning about the odd things students do at their schools for their teams, but this one is pretty geeky. Apparently, according to a story in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled, “Is it a trap? [...]

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In the category of “great gaming deals,” digital distribution site Impulse has a sale on the fantastic PC space sim Evochron Legends for just under $20. What is Evochron Legends? It’s a space sim in the traditional sense, wherein you fly around a spaceship (with a joystick or a mouse), kill bad guys, make money, [...]

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Lots of gaming stuff today, huh? Just seems to be a busy day for it. In the category of “Free? Cool!”, the folks over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun are reporting that a fan-made expansion to the classic platformer, Jazz Jackrabit, has been released, and you can download the full thing in all it’s 1994-based graphical [...]

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According to stories on Eurogamer and MCV, they’re reporting that a….report from Digital Battle claims that the popular Grand Theft Auto IV is the most expensive video game ever made, costing around $100,000,000 to produce. Here’s their list, which inclides some other notable games: Grand Theft Auto 4: $100 million Gran Turismo: $80 million Shenmue: [...]

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Another big game release, at least to me, is the new Transformers G1 Awakening game, a turn-based strategy games based on the original (or G1, for “Generation One”) Transformers characters. Available for $4.99 in the App Store, it’s gotten pretty decent reviews from both Touch Arcade and Slide to Play. I’ll be downloading this one [...]

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According to The iPhone Blog, classic RPG’s Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II are both now available in the App Store for $8.99 each. I’ve never played these games myself, but knowing how popular the series is, I thought I should share.

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Hey there y’all, hope y’all are well. Busy as hell here at work today, so won’t have much time to post anything (plus my brain is wombly from lack of sleep). I therefore thought I’d share something with ya, the soundtrack to one of my favorite PC games, Interstate ’76, courtest of the awesome music [...]

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