Category: Gaming
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F.E.A.R. Single-Player Demo
I woke up this morning to a freshly downloaded copy of the installer for F.E.A.R. – First Encounter Assault Recon, after failed attempts to download it yesterday (It came out at 1 PM EST, so I wasn’t surprised). So, here are my first-time impressions from my first play through of the demo.
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Concerned Is Hilarious
As some of you may know, I’m hopelessly addicted to Half-Life 2. Well, now I can feed my twin vices of HL2 and comics by reading Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman. It is hilarious and witty, with tons of subtle I-get-it-because-I-played-the-game humor. The prologue alone will give anyone who waited for the…
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Project: Snowblind
I bought and beat Project: Snowblind a few weeks ago, and it had its moments, but is ultimately not worth replaying. The reviews it’s getting say something similar: it’s not very original, but it’s a fun, solid shooter. Well, I agree and disagree. Snowblind is a first person shooter that repeatedly reminded me of Halo…
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Star Wars & Legos in a Game = Best Idea Ever
I just watched the trailer for Lego: Star Wars today. This is the greatest thing ever, I swear. On top of that, whoever came up with this idea needs to be promoted. The combination of these two nostalgic power centers into a game creates a white-hot poker of consumer lust that stabs directly into my…
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Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
Prima Games’ making-of book Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar is a good read and a worthwhile purchase, if you really enjoy the Half-Life series, the story of the universe Valve has created, and are interested in game design. Unfortunately, the most interesting part of the book is also the least prevelant: the writing. While the…
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Half-Life 2
They’re right, the critics are right. Half-Life 2 is one of the best games, if not the best, I’ve ever played. The original Half-Life is probably the only game that offered such a rich, full experience. But HL2 exceeds it in almost every way, and not merely because it’s newer. It has the crafted, focused…
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I Am Become Gordon Freeman
Picture taken at 1:55 PM: I can smell the ashes already… Note the bandage on index finger. I showed that motherboard who’s boss! Just to clarify, the motherboard is the boss.
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WE ARE GOLDEN
The news is out and it’s official, Half-Life 2 has gone gold. The release date is set at November 16th. If I can get the new PC funded, built, and running by then, I am taking the day off and getting my game on like never before with the game that’s being called the “best…
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In Space, No One Can See You Scream; or Do Anything, Really
Because my brother is fortunate enough to have a system that doesn’t completely gag on heapin’ helpin’s of data dished out by high-end games, I got a chance to play some of Doom 3 on his laptop* for the first time. My first impression is that it’s an intense game that amps up the fear…
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I Am Lame, Even In My Dreams, Which Are Also Lame
I recently (a few days ago) had a dream about Half-Life 2. I dreamt that I had a copy of the game (only in my dreams is this game released yet) and was playing the opening parts of the game. The specifics of the dream are unimportant, what’s important is that I was dream-playing it…
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