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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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Thank you, internet.

Posted June 22nd 2009 by Adam Glasgow.

Last night while avoiding doing anything that might resemble being productive I stumbled on Eversion - a free to download old school style platformer. It came out at the end of last year, but it's new to me. The looks are cutesy, but we start with a quote from H.P. Lovecraft and a warning that reads "NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE WITH A NERVOUS DISPOSITION." This is, of course, a joke, but it ends up being a little closer to the truth than I originally thought. Looking at the readme file reveals the story, which is as follows. (No joke.)

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E3 Media Briefing Afterthoughts

Posted June 8th 2009 by Adam Glasgow.

E3 is good and over, and I've had the weekend to recover from my trip and roll everything around in my head. Overall the show was much less chaotic than I was expecting, which almost surely has to do with the fact that it's a closed event and you have to be over a certain age to get in. I am grateful for this. Anyhow, here's what I thought of the media briefings.

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BRAID: Now on a System I Actually Own.

Posted April 18th 2009 by Adam Glasgow.

Braid is not a new game. It was released on the 360 almost a year ago. But it just came out on the PC, which means it's new to me.

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Stupid Names, Great Games.

Posted March 15th 2009 by Adam Glasgow.

I'm not sure what it is, exactly, that attracts me to them, but I've always loved arcade twitch shooters. One of my most played NES games was by far Life Force, which fits in to the Gradius universe somehow, I think. Jump forward in time a little bit and chances are I was sitting at home playing Darius Twin on the SNES - a weird game where all the bad guys are like, fish spaceships or something. Getting closer to the now, I spent a lot of time on my Gamecube playing Ikaruga, and enjoyed having my ass kicked by Gradius V on the PS2.

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