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Category Archives: Games

Video Games. Interactive Entertainment.

Whatever you call them, they’re probably going to stick around for a while. This section includes everything from the Apple ][e on to whatever the current console is.

Rock Band

Rock Band excels at fulfilling the “hit button and get a pleasurable outcome” center of my brain.  There is altogether satisfying with getting together with your friends and pretending to play a song that you know.
When one of you fails, you all fail.  When you all succeed, it is a moment resplendent and glorious.  There [...]

Killzone 2: Multiplayer

I didn’t really get into Killzone 2’s multiplayer until recently.
As befitting a game titled “Killzone 2″ you are invariably and unregrettably placed into a zone where you are then encouraged to kill people.  It’s true, the title hides no secrets.  One can also deduce that it’s a sequel, if you scour the text carefully.
As a [...]

Rune Factory Frontier is not Casablanca

Rune Factory Frontier is something else.  I’ve already logged over 20 hours.  To put that into a little more perspective, that’s longer than most games from start to finish.  To make that wide angle, let me put it this way:  I think I beat the first dungeon, but I’m not sure.  I didn’t consult the [...]

Plants vs. Zombies (PvZ)

Popcap has combined two of my favorite gaming past times:

Tower Defense
Zombie Killin’

And added a little bit of their own Popcap spin on the genre.  They even added a bit of “card collecting” to the mix, although thankfully that’s only a limited implementation.  (Because it would end me.)  Essentially, you can only take a certain number [...]

Zombies

I’ve been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead and really itching to play Call of Duty: World at War’s Nazi Zombies mode.  Also looking forward to Dead Rising 2, which appears to be zombies in Las Vegas.  Dead Space was essentially zombies in, well, in space.
I don’t actually know what the appeal is.  I’m [...]

Mission Architect: City of Heroes

I had some time to kill the other day so I cranked up the old gaming rig and patched up City of Heroes to see how long it would take to whip out a custom mission.
Really, not that long.  After taking the grand tour, I pretty much dove straight in to the Mission Creator.  It’s [...]

Board Games

We never had a family board game night.  There just wasn’t enough people to have a decent game of Monopoly.  Not that I ever had a truly fun game of Monopoly.  Most games I play turn into the slow bleeding elimination of the other players.  If I ever get roped into it, I usually try [...]