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Month: December 2015

  • Losing Your Edge

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    This is the lost post I referred to recently, which to my surprise suddenly popped up again in my draft folder, and so Iā€™ve decided to share it as is, along with a little update at the end. The Magaziner returns. Sorta. In recent weeks, Iā€™ve been feeling the itch to bring back The Magaziner…

  • Sparrow Racing League

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    Thereā€™s no denying that Destiny has played a huge role in my gaming life this year – it also has the distinction of being the game Iā€™ve played the most, ever (total hours). Sometime in late October I did finally burn out on it – partly in frustration that I wasnā€™t managing to level up…

  • Assassinā€™s Creed Chronicles: China

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    I picked this up a while back during a PSN sale, but hadnā€™t gotten around to really spending time with it until recently. I gotta say, Iā€™m having a really good time playing this. I absolutely love the stealth gameplay in 2D, and the art direction is really fantastic, deeply inspired by traditional Chinese art.…

  • Game of Thrones

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    During last weekā€™s PSN holiday sale I picked up telltaleā€™s Game of Thrones for a steal (as well as Tales of the Borderlands), and started playing episode 2 last night on PS4 (I played episode 1 on iPad when it first released last year). I quite enjoyed the first episode, story-wise, and what Iā€™ve played…

  • Southern Bastards

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    This is one of those comic series that I missed jumping on when it launched, and then kept hearing tons of good things about it from friends, but was too lazy (or just forgot) to check it out. With the year-endĀ ā€œbest ofā€ lists popping up, I was reminded that I should finally get around to…

  • Head Lopper

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    Itā€™s a comic about a dude with a sword who lops off heads, while carrying a talking witchā€™s head in a bag. Itā€™s awesome. The art is fantastic and super dynamic. The first issue came out in September, and itā€™s a quarterly, and so the next issue should be out this month. Each issue is…

  • Episodes 1-3

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    Well, what to say, I happily watched Episodes 4-6 a few weeks ago, in preparation for the release of The Force Awakens, and the plan was to then watch 1-3, but I kinda chickened out. But having gotten all caught up on Star Wars Rebels, I wanted to watch more Star Wars stuff, and so…

  • Freedom Wars

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    Iā€™d always been interested in Freedom Wars because I liked what I saw of the esthetic of the game, but not enough to pick it up – doesnā€™t help that Iā€™ve tried playing stuff like God Eater, but didnā€™t really get into it (and Iā€™m sure thatā€™s because I didnā€™t have anyone to play with).…

  • A Very Murray Christmas

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    Really didnā€™t know what to expect from this thing, other than I was going in thinking it was one hell of a weird thing for Netflix to produce – and Iā€™m not very Christmas-y, or into Christmas specials. But hey, I like Murray, I like weird things, and when I learned that it was directed…

  • Legend of Dungeon: Masters

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    The other day I got a link to this article about the Twitch integration an indie dev (Robot Loves Kitty) was using for a game called Legend of Dungeon, by way of a separate free client that you can download (from Steam), called Legend of Dungeon: Masters. I was curious, and so immediately gave it…