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October 9, 2015

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If you’re nervous about how the PC version of Fallout 4 will run due to the flawed titles of the past few months, you’re not alone. It’s a good time to talk system specs before you choose what version of the game to preorder ahead of it’s November 10 release,…

review-elite-dangerous-microsoft-xbox

October 8, 2015

Elite Dangerous/Frontier Developments/Microsoft Xbox One/open world game/Reviews/space game/XB1/Xbox One review

Elite: Dangerous is a mixed bag of great ideas but sometimes rough execution. But given that the end result is a technical, involving simulation game that provides almost limitless options and a genuine sandbox to explore around it, most people should be willing to forgive its more grating elements. The…

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October 8, 2015

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As a follow-up to this summer’s all bases loaded anime extravaganza, the fall season is a bit of a lull by comparison. In particular, those looking for those indispensable, self-contained 12 to 25 episode shows will have to dig through various ongoing shows and expansions of existing franchises. Then again,…

Review: NBA Live 16 (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 8, 2015

Basketball/EA/EA Sports/NBA Live 16/PS4 Review/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/sports game

NBA Live 16 shows signs that EA is improving with its patchiest sporting franchise. Considering the state of the series a couple of years ago, this is welcome news. However, there is still a ways to go before the series is ready to reclaim its place as champion.Things start off…

Microsoft announces Project X-Ray, transforms your living room into a holographic shooting range

October 7, 2015

Hololens/Microsoft/News

Like most boys who grew up watching films bulging with action heroes who wielded seismic pectorals to double-axe hammer arrogant aliens and mercenaries into an explosion of despair-submission, I received most of my formal education from Arnold Schwarzenegger. His lessons are numerous, large, and ubiquitous. And while Arnold’s most important…

gameforce-2015-belgian-indie-experience

October 7, 2015

Belgium/Broken Bots/Expo/Gameforce 2015/Mayan Death Robots/QuizWitz

After a week of obsessively immersing myself into my two most recent infatuations, Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls and World of Warships, I decided it was time for a little change in scenery. Undocking from the comfy mold of my posterior in the living room couch, I hopped on the train…

dear-military-forces-stop-using-game

October 7, 2015

Army/EB Expo/EB Expo 2015/military shooter/Opinion/propaganda

We all agree that child soldiers are a bad thing, correct? We all understand that basic human rights dictate that children should be kept free of the horrors of conflict, and we all look at what happens in places like, say, Africa and the Middle East, and react with horror…

Review: Blood Bowl 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 7, 2015

Blood Bowl 2/Cyanide Studios/Focus Home Interactive/PS4 Review/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/Strategy/tactics game/turn based

Take a sip of your potion of choice (beer, coffee, Ogre Knuckle on the rocks), and imagine along with me the following scenario: An Elf and an Orc are at a morning charity event, looking to donate a small percentage of their annual earnings so as to guarantee that younglings…

Review: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Nintendo 3DS)

October 6, 2015

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Ever since it was first unveiled, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer has been castigated by a vocal crowd and endured the label “placeholder spin-off”. Frankly, the paranoia that led to this reputation is justified. After all, boiling Animal Crossing, a sandbox game with an obscene degree of freedom, down to…

so-you-wanted-to-see-me-write-book

October 6, 2015

book project/Books/Chasing Miku/Hatsune Miku

Well… I totally am. A good friend and utter genius, Phil, is gearing up to start publishing a series of books about works of art that a group of authors have had a deeply personal reaction to. The first series of books will comprise of six volumes, and I am…

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