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Browsing Posts published in August, 2010

This Saturday, in Los Angeles, there will be a midnight showing of “Transformers: The Movie”. No, not the Michael Bay pieces of crap, we’re talking the original 1986 animated film that many people in my generation consider a beloved and seminal piece of work…so of course I’m going. (Thanks to my friend Josh for the [...]

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Since I can’t think of an article to write today, I’ll post a question to y’all, if you don’t mind. I have a lot of friends who are of opposing sides to this argument. Some feel cloud computing isn’t secure enough to trust with their data. Others, like me, who put all of their information [...]

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Say what you want about the controversy surrounding the secondary gaming market, whether you agree that it takes money away from developers or feel it’s just a great way to save money on games, one can see it’s not going away any time soon. Now, according to Gamasutra, two major retailers, Target and Best Buy, [...]

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One of my favorite gaming franchises is the Worms series. If you’re unaware, it’s a game wherein you take a team of heavily armed worms — armed with a variety of weapons from baseball bats to shotguns to explosive sheep — and try to defeat other teams of similarly armed worms. Besides weapons, you have [...]

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For over twenty years, Microsoft’s Flight Simulator series of flight sims dominated the civilian aviation simulator market for personal computers. Hell, it helped start the genre way back when after buying the license from SubLOGIC, who sold the original Flight Simulator in 1980.

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Gotta thank my friend Mike for this one. Apparently on the World of Warcraft forums, someone was complaining that the appearance of the Malestrom area in their upcoming Cataclysm expansion didn’t look “epic enough”.

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