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Guest Appearance

Posted July 8th 2010 by Daisy Garcia.

Last week I was asked to make a guest appearance on former staff writer Curtis' podcast, Total Action Adventure, that he does with his fiance, Drea, and another one of our past writers, Shawn. Scheduling conflicts kept it from happening at the time (what can I say, I'm a busy gal!), so we taped it last night and voila! Today it's online, so give it a listen. In it we talk about the games we've been playing, which on my end will probably sound like a repeat of our last podcast, but I do discuss Naughty Bear a bit. I received it yesterday and so far have been having a good time.

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Dinosaur Killing

Posted April 17th 2010 by Oliver Chen.

I don't know if you know this, but the life dream of all human beings is to hunt and kill gigantic dinosaurs.

Toriko
This is me everyday irl

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G/S/C in retrospect

Posted April 3rd 2010 by Oliver Chen.

Let me cut right to the chase: Pokemon Platinum is the best Pokemon game of its time. Gold and Silver have kind of settled down to second place over time.

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Activision and Infinity Ward: A Tale of Two Suckers

Posted March 6th 2010 by Frankie Aguilar.

So I'm sure anyone who was interested by this title knows a little bit about this whole situation but for those of you who are curious/unaware here it goes. Mega gaming company Activision has been in the business of buying up/merging with top tier companies for a while, starting with Raven studios way back in '97, and most notably Vivendi (basically for Blizzard) in 2008. Most of the time when a huge corporate machine buys up smaller awesome companies, and I'm looking at you EA, they do so for the IPs, not for the people. This cutting out the fluff mentality has lent itself to trouble, with the mass layoffs of Blizzard employees post merger, which totaled close to 300, causing quite a stir. More recently, Activision has come under heavy fire for its handling, or mishandling, or what it calls "breaches of contract and insubordination" by senior employees at Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward, which was bought by Activision in 2003, is the developer behind the insanely popular Call of Duty franchise, whose most recent outing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, was the biggest entertainment launch in history.

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Tales of Monkey Island... on the Wii!

Posted February 28th 2010 by Adam Glasgow.

I've finally had a little bit of time recently to sit down with the WiiWare version of Tales of Monkey Island, the cross platform episodic point and click adventure game from Telltale. And here are my thoughts.

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