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sleep and civ don’t mix

21-Aug-08

i’ve never been a big fan of the civilization-type games (real time strategy)… dunno why exactly… probably because they’ve primarily stayed on the desktop and i’m a die-hard console gamer.
well, now that civilization revolution is out for 360, specifically built for using a controller instead of a keyboard and mouse, and i had to give [...]

psn trophies == xbl achievements, and i like it

30-Jun-08

(xbox achievements and psn trophies…  atrophies?)
i’ve been a gamerscore addict for a long time now; this is no secret.  but as i prophecied i would be, i am “super stoked” about a feature coming to my newly acquired playstation 3 that i just found out about today.
sony has announced “trophies” for playstation games.  the whole [...]

two wor(L)ds: “don’t buy”

28-Aug-07

wow… i’ve been telling my wife recently that i need a shirt that says “marketing works on me!” and the need for that shirt could not be more clearly demonstrated than with the recently released steaming pile known as two worlds. i read some quote that called two worlds “oblivion on steroids” or [...]

“enough already!” or, “why it’s time to actually _finish_ some games.”

31-Mar-07

alright, now that the old spice challenge is over (see previous two posts), it’s time to just work on finish some games…
let’s see… i got graw for my birthday last summer, but we were in the middle of moving so there was no 360 time… by the time we got into our new house, dead [...]

i’d like to thank the academy…

31-Mar-07

actually, the academy has nothing to do with this post. in this post, my thanks go to:

crackdown
lost planet
viva piñata
graw
dead rising
wik
uno
jewel quest
ms. pac man
marble blast ultra
defender

these are the games that helped me lift my gamerscore by 1500 — from 10095 to 11595 — to meet the old spice gamerscore challenge.
now if i can just finish [...]