May 2012
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Ugliest game box of all time?
Regardless of the quality of the game, this is pretty hideous.
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Oh yeah, I'm supposed to blog here!
I used to do that! I’ve been incredibly busy working a project that’s been sucking a lot of my time away. I’ve still been able to start a new homebrewing blog (New York Home Brew!) and get a bunch of reviews written, though… The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
I unabashadly love this game. I just picked up the first book from the series that inspired the...
April 2012
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth review
Really love this one. This and Sine Mora in a few weeks? Xbox Live Arcade’s on a roll again. Not too sure how smart they were releasing it on Good Friday/First Day of PAX, though. Especially since most Xbox 360 gamers are used to Arcade titles hitting on Wednesday. Of course, it doesn’t help that the console’s new Games Marketplace is absolutely awful at letting you find...
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Interview: Mass Effect 3 Developers talk about...
Had a nice half-hour chat with the three guys behind the Shroud level on Tuchanka in Mass Effect 3, a spoilery interview that shows just how much your choices matter in the game. Indeed, how much they’ve mattered in every single game in the series- you might be surprised to see all the things that can change depending on your actions.
Really proud of this interview. You can read the full...
March 2012
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Sine Mora review
I love shoot’em ups. Absolutely love them. While I was a Nintendo fanboy as a kid I picked up a Sega Nomad years later along with a massive amount of shooters, finally experiencing all of those amazing Treasure games I hadn’t tried before. That was really the start of things, and I spent the next few years dodging bullets whenever I could. But besides some re-releases on XBLA there...
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Space Birds Vs Zombie Squad
Couple new reviews of mine just went up-
Angry Birds Space-
Great sequel, changes around the formula just enough to keep things interesting. Can’t wait for more levels, even though I still have a bunch more to three star in the second episode.
Full review at Tapsauce.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City-
Huge disappointment. I enjoyed it when I played it last year at a press...
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Young knuckleheads
The Museum of the Moving Image is pretty much the only place I get to see movies anymore. My shitty schedule of working nights and writing days along with watching the kid half the week means that I barely have any time to watch anything anymore, or get out of the house. My membership to the museum keeps things cheap (75 bucks for a year of unlimited films!) and they’ve been doing a great...
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I Am Alive review
My second review for Guyspeed is up! I’m going to be doing some gaming news for them as well, can’t wait.
As for I Am Alive, I was pleasantly surprised by this game. It’s a little rough around the edges but it’s certainly unique, a really bleak look at the post-apocalypse. It’s the closest to a videogame adaptation of The Road that we’ll ever get.
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Syndicate Review
Since I’ve moved on from JoBlo (let’s call it irreconcilable differences) I’ve been looking for more places to freelance, specifically to review films, video games, and board games. One place I’m excited to start working for is GuySpeed. I’m going to be doing some game reviews for them and my first up is for Syndicate, which I liked a lot more than I expected to....
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Mass Effect 3 review
Received a pretty good response to my Mass Effect 3 review, even though it came out almost a week after the game’s release. I hate getting things up so late but sometimes I get a review copy only a day or so before- sometimes even after the game is in stores already. Doesn’t really help things. But I absolutely loved the game, controversial endings and all.
Check it out on Badass...
February 2012
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Video Game Review: Gotham City Impostors
You’re running through a dark alley clutching a shotgun close to your chest when the light from a nearby rooftop casts a silhouette on a nearby wall of a chilling-yet-familiar caped figure. You spin around and aim your weapon upwards, trying to catch a glimpse of the menace… but it’s already gone. Spotting a nearby trampoline and bouncing off of it far into the air, you pull out a...
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The Great Muppet Caper
Saw this film at the Museum of the Moving Image today for the first time since I was a kid. Have to say, I think it holds up the best of the bunch. Constantly breaking the fourth wall with hysterical line, some great musical numbers, and I still can’t figure out how they got all those muppets riding bicycles. Not surprisingly, the only one Jim Henson directed himself. Still worked...
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Game Review: Soulcalibur V →
Sometimes it’s refreshing to review a game that doesn’t require 50 hours of gameplay (ahem, Kingdoms of Amaldur- Reckoning). This is a damn fun fighting game, even if there’s not much to recommend it over the last few installments.
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January 2012
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Game Review: Jetpack Joyride
Almost considered buying an iPad just for this. Almost.
Honestly, I loved my time with the gadget and there’s a surprising amount of great games for it, but the price is still putting me off. Especially since I have a rooted Nook Color and can play games from the Google Marketplace on it. If the iPad were closer to $200 I would nab one in a second, though.
I went nuts picking up great...
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Board Game Review: Risk Legacy
Received a great response to my review of Risk Legacy! Glad to see that people are as excited about this game as I am, hope it turns a few more people onto the hobby.
Risk. Besides Monopoly, it’s perhaps the most-played board game of all time. You probably have one rotting away in the bottom of your closet, so why should you drop cash on another version? But Risk: Legacy is no simple reskin...
Game Review: Grand Theft Auto 3 Ten Year...
While I appreciate that Rockstar was able to cram GTA3 into your phone, I’m not sure it was the best idea.
http://rocksaucestudios.com/tapsauce/post/game-review-grand-theft-auto-3-ten-year-anniversary-edition/
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Game Review: A Game of Thrones: The Board Game...
True to the nature of George R.R. Martin’s most famous work, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game is epic, complex, and will soak up a lot of your free time. At its most basic it’s a war game that sees you trying to control the castles and strongholds scattered among the territories of Westeros, but there’s a delightful amount of backstabbing, false alliances, and just generally screwing your...
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The Next Great Horror Author
Wife sent me an email a little while ago that actually shocked me. She’s up reading mom blogs (shaddup, she’s pregnant) and came across this innocuous entry, where an overworked mom talks about forgetting her new baby. Queue up this comment by one “Liz”, the comment to end all internet comments and certainly kick off a Bram Stoker-winning career.
I never forget my baby. I...
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December 2011
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Risk: Legacy
Roped the family into a playing my brand-new copy of Risk Legacy yesterday during Christmas and was pleasantly surprised by how much fun it is.
If you’ve never heard of this new iteration, it’s one of the most innovative board games you’ll ever play. Each game will fundamentally change the world for games to come. For instance, you can customize the different armies, giving...
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North Korea's still fucked
Kim Jong Il’s death reminded me of the stunning doc Yodok Stories that i saw at Tribeca a couple years ago (and reviewed at CHUD here.) It’s still unbelievable to think that there are concentration camps still at use in the world at there, and I doubt that Il’s death will change anything, especially with his apparently dim son (Kim Jong-Un) barely prepped for the role.
Because...
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Nightmare
So I had this horrible nightmare last night where I was on a road trip with my wife and three other female friends. We were driving around going to places (as you do) and finally ended up at a video store on the way back. Yes an actual video store. I stayed in the car while the women picked something up to watch for when we got home. As we took off I opened the dvd case and saw that they had...
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Fan films
Has there ever been a good fan film? I can’t think of one. It seems like they crop up every month, and I watch as fans of the property drool over the short or trailer or whatever, regardless of quality, just because it’s cool to see their favorite characters brought to life. But I’m having trouble thinking of a single good one.
Case in point, the utterly awful Bioshock trailer...
November 2011
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Dragonborn! →
Some people cranked out a kid on 11/11/11 and named him- wait for it- DOVAHKIIN. Yes, that’s “Dragonborn” in Dragon Language, as you’d know if you were playing The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim.
This was for a contest for Bethesda. Their prize? Free Bethesda games for life! Certainly something that’s worth hundreds of dollars! And perhaps some traffic to their little...
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New homes on the web
Besides JoBlo I’m going to be contributing some more video game reviews to the newly revamped Badass Digest. I really love this site and think that Devin’s made it one of the more interesting places on the net in just a little over a year, so I’m really proud to be a part of it. My latest review over there is for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.
Also, I’m going to be...
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Tim Burton and Ms Peregrine
This news scares me.
The book’s not that great, but I was surprised to see how Lovecraft-influenced it is. It starts off as a spooky Lovecraft story and ends as a kid enrolls in Xaviar’s School For Gifted Youngsters, which sounds great but it really offers nothing new. It’s also basically an origin story that promises (threatens) more installments.
But I was just horrified...
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My review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim →
When I got a review copy of Fallout 3 they sent it to me the day of release. I didn’t get the review up for almost two months. Thankfully they sent me Skyrim a couple of weeks ago and while I still have so much more to do in the game (so, so much more to do) I was able to get up a Skyrim review on launch day. Tried something a little different with this one, trying to demonstrate what...
October 2011
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JoBlo-ing it up
So, last weekend I decided to accept a job offer from JoBlo as their latest News Editor. I’ve only been working at it for three days but I can’t tell you how incredibly fulfilling it’s been so far. Just the amount of communication I’ve had with the team is far beyond anything I’m used to- and it just feels like the way it should be. Great folks, every one, and...
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My current writing method.
When I have enough time to write an article or review, this is what I’ve been doing.
1. Write it out longhand in my trusty notebook.
2. Transfer it to Google Docs, making changes along the way, especially when I can’t decipher my own handwriting, which happens a lot.
3. Tear the notebook pages out and throw them in the trash. Catharsis!
4. Print the article out of GDocs and read it...
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Game Review: Dead Rising 2- Off the Record →
My first of what will hopefully be many reviews for Joblo.com!
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Netflix's lowest moment.
Doubling the price of the service and losing a million customers in the process? Splitting the service into two different companies and further alienating everyone?
That’s nothing. Netflix’s lowest moment as a company was on September 1st, 2010. On that date we were promised a streaming version of the previously unreleased Fish Story, Yoshihiro Nakamura’s stunning punk rock...
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Microsoft just killed Cable
For me, at least. I’d already cancelled my service a couple years ago but now there’s really no reason to go back. They’ve just announced a ton of new TV and content providers that will be available on the Xbox 360 later this year. Also, as someone who loves barking at his TV to let it know when to pause Mad Men, the Kinect functionality is greatly appreciated. Here’s the...
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Video Game Review: RAGE Is Not Worth Raging Over →
Somewhat surprised at all the gushing I’m seeing for this relatively average game. Not at all surprised that the one outlet allowed to break embargo (EGM) gave it a 9.5.
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