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TGC 2011 Game of the Year
Game Issues / Recent Posts Posted on: December 31, 2011May 5, 2025

TGC 2011 Game of the Year

Before I get to my top 5 games I want to give out some honorable mentions to games I played some of, but not enough for me to feel comfortable […]

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Game Issues / Recent Posts Posted on: December 31, 2011May 5, 2025

State of the Blog ’11

And so ends the third full year of me trying to figure out what the hell I’m doing. Thank you for whatever readership I’ve garnered in that time and for […]

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Let me play: 7 issues with racing games
External Sources / Recent Posts Posted on: December 16, 2011May 11, 2025

Let me play: 7 issues with racing games

My weekly post is up at Nightmare Mode and only one day late this time. Here I go on about Gran Turismo 5 and Need for Speed: Shift. Neither game really grabbed […]

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External Sources / Recent Posts Posted on: December 16, 2011May 5, 2025

Miscellaneous

Lots of minor things to get through, yet not much to say. Really just a bunch of little things happened my way. On Monday I reposted my Limbo retort, on Nightmare […]

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Better the World Think You a Fool than to Open Your Mouth and Prove It Right
Critical Responses / Recent Posts Posted on: December 8, 2011May 5, 2025

Better the World Think You a Fool than to Open Your Mouth and Prove It Right

Tadhg Kelly is a very good marketer and a pretty good essayist when it comes to that field, but every time he ventures forth out of marketing or the cold […]

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In Response to the Responses I Got For What I Said About Limbo
Critical Responses / Recent Posts Posted on: December 7, 2011May 11, 2025

In Response to the Responses I Got For What I Said About Limbo

I like getting thoughtful and intelligent criticism of my work. I like reading what people had to say. It means I had enough of an effect on them to make […]

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Desert Bus: The Cultural Event/Game
External Sources / Recent Posts Posted on: December 6, 2011May 5, 2025

Desert Bus: The Cultural Event/Game

So a lot of good things have been happening to me as of late and here’s another one. I’ve been invited to write for the Moving Pixels blog over at […]

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Recent Posts / Thoughts Posted on: November 25, 2011May 5, 2025

Shock to the System

I am writing this, because I am freaking out right now and not entirely in a good way. I need to get this out of my right now, before my […]

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Motorstorm: Apocalypse, the game that wasn’t there
External Sources / Recent Posts Posted on: November 24, 2011May 5, 2025

Motorstorm: Apocalypse, the game that wasn’t there

This is one of those posts that felt like pulling teeth. It just didn’t want to come out. Then again it’s a post about how the game offered nothing to talk […]

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The Supergenres of Action, RPGs and Adventure Games
Critical Responses / Recent Posts Posted on: November 14, 2011May 5, 2025

The Supergenres of Action, RPGs and Adventure Games

I wrote a piece for Gameranx asking the question, ‘What is action/adventure?‘ This is part of the larger question about game genres, one that’s been discussed at length over twitter […]

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