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Month: May 2014

  • Sportsfriends

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    The game I’ve probably had the most fun playing this year has been TowerFall, and the main reason for that is because it’s just so damn fun to play it with friends in the same room. This means that even though I think it’s overpriced, I’ve already bought an extra PS4 controller, and truth be…

  • Heroes Within

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    As I’ve mentioned quite a few times, I really love all of the Star Wars tables that have been released for Zen Pinball 2 – especially to play on PS4, where they look amazing – and so I was pretty excited to get a new set of 4 tables, Heroes Within. What can I say,…

  • Castle of Illusion

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    The HD remake of this game was a recent offering on PS+ – I’m not sure if it’s still available – and I’m sure glad I gave it a whirl. Although I’m well aware of the original, I don’t think I had ever played it, and so never had any particular attachment to this. The…

  • Child of Light

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    I was so incredibly excited to play this, based on all the media I had been seeing, and now that I’ve played it, I can’t help but feel like I’m not enjoying it as much as I should. I’ve admittedly only played a few hours (it’s apparently close to 12 hours long, which is pretty…

  • Stick it to the Man

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    This is the PS4 offering from PS+ this month, and I’ve been having a blast playing it (I think I’m almost done). It’s basically a modern take on the point-and-click adventure genre, and so the game is all about encountering characters and solving puzzles, which amount to you finding items, and then giving them to…

  • Super Time Force

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    Holy shit is this game ever fun. I really wish I could have gone through the tutorial when I played it at BitSummit earlier this year, because at that time, I really couldn’t wrap my mind around what I was supposed to do, and it’s only now that I truly understand how this works: use…

  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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    First of all, why the fuck did they have to put Jack Ryan in the title of the movie? James Bond: Skyfall would be just as dumb. But I do like seeing spy/international intrigue movies – which we don’t get much of – and so I was actually looking forward to watching this. I quite…

  • Penny Dreadful

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    I’ll preface this by saying that I love Eva Green, and so just the fact that she stars in this series was enough to get me interested. But hey, that first episode was pretty damn good. A good amount of scary/spooky/creepy, but with some fun action and heroics that reminded me a bit of Buffy.…

  • The Clone Wars

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    A while back I decided to give the Clone Wars animated series a try, and now as I finish off the second season, I can say that I’m glad I did. Sure, I’m not at all a fan of the prequels, but I am excited for the upcoming Rebels animated series – that will take…

  • Maron

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    I’m still a fan of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast – although these days I don’t listen to every episode like I used to – and I was quite happy when I heard that Maron (his show on IFC) had been renewed for a second season. The season opener was pretty great too, especially all the tension…