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Month: June 2014

  • He’s Got the Oil on His chain, for a Ride in the Rain

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    It’s rainy season. It’s wet. And I’ve been doing a piss poor job of doing any kind of writing here. That’s not to say I don’t do any writing – I sure tweet like a motherfucker, and still keep up with my media consumption diary of games I’m playing, and TV/movies I’m watching – but…

  • Tomodachi Life

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    Boy am I having fun with this game. I still remember teasing a lot of my friends here who were excited for the Japanese edition when it came out last year, and this is what happened. So after seeing the super silly (and funny) trailer that Nintendo released when they announced that it would come…

  • Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball

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    I got this when it first came out a couple of months ago, but just realized I never ended up mentioning it here. It’s an interesting little game for the 3DS – it’s a free download, and you buy baseball-themed mini-games inside, 10 in all. The really interesting part is that when it comes to…

  • Trine 2

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    Of the new PS4 offerings through PS+ last week, this is the one I’ve played the least, but I was curious to see how it looked, and unsurprisingly, it looks great. I played the original Trine – on PS3 I think – and it’s a game I had fun with. I like platformers, and I…

  • War Thunder

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    This is a free-to-play aerial combat (although I believe you can control tanks too, but I haven’t tried yet) sim that came out on PS4 this past week, and I was curious to take it out for a spin. Although graphically it’s fine, I was having some issues playing it. The flight controls aren’t so…

  • PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate

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    We got lots of free goodies through PS+ last week, starting with PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, a combo of the two games that have been released so far, with a fresh graphical paint job on PS4 (as far as I can tell, the Vita version features the same flat graphics from the originals, which I do…

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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    What a fantastic film. No big surprise there, considering my love for all of Wes Anderson’s film, but I am happy to report that this is just as good as any of his other films. Beautifully framed, cast to perfection, music to enhance it all, there’s just not much to not like about it. By…

  • 300: Rise of an Empire

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    Here’s why I wanted to watch this: Eva Green (no secret there, I’ll watch pretty much anything she’s in) and I do really dig action movies set in ancient times. I liked the original 300 – was a huge fan of Frank Miller’s book before that – and although I wasn’t particularly excited at the…