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Month: December 2013

  • Lords of Waterdeep

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    I love this board game – I have the physical copy – and I’m very happy to have it on iOS as well, with asynchronous multiplayer. It’s basically a European-style resource management game, with a Dungeons & Dragons skin on it, which I quite like.

  • 24/7 Red Wings/Maple Leafs: Road to the NHL Winter Classic

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    I really love this series. I’ve watched the previous 2 seasons they’ve done, and if anything, really wish that it was a year-long thing that followed multiple teams, and not just this short 4-episode run that we get. It’s an HBO reality series that follows the 2 teams that will face each other at the…

  • NHL 14

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    I love hockey, and I love watching the Canadiens play – something I stopped doing for about 20 years, but got back into last year. The last time I remember really playing a lot of video game hockey is NHL 2K on the Dreamcast – we’d have hockey playing sessions in my living room, using…

  • Elysium

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    Even though I have so much love for District 9, I came into this with lowered expectations, because I’d been hearing from many people that it wasn’t all that great. Well, maybe it’s because of those low expectations, but I sure loved this. For me, it starts with the world design, as I really loved…

  • Colossatron

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    I hadn’t heard anything about this game before it came out, but seeing that it was from Halfbrick I figured it was definitely worth the buck, and wow, consider this another Jetpack Joyride-like addictathon. Such a great idea, to have you play a Zuma’s Revenge-type game, but making it so that you are arming a…

  • Favorite Media of 2013

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    That is what I digged the most this year. Can you dig it? For the past few years (see 2010, 2011, and 2012) I’ve been ending the year with a big ol’ post where I go through my favorite media of the year in a few key categories. For me, it acts as an exercise…

  • Almost Human

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    After having learned my lesson from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – a show I was excited about after watching the first episode, but that I quit with the second – I wanted to give Almost Human a few episodes before I write about whether I like it or not. The verdict? I do like it,…

  • République

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    I will say, this is one damn cool game. I really enjoyed playing through this – takes about 2 hours to go through this first episode – and I really can’t wait for the next episodes to come out. My favorite aspect of the game is that you are not really controlling the character of…