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Month: December 2014

  • Favorite Media of 2014

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    In what has become an annual tradition – I’ve done it for the past 4 years, although those posts are now all lost to the ether due to my big server shutdown of 2014 – I like to end the year with a big post that goes through my favorite media of the year. This…

  • The Colbert Report

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    I haven’t watched a full episode of The Colbert Report in years, but I did want to watch the final episode, and it was definitely a nice – and appropriately wacky – sendoff. Even though I didn’t watch it week-by-week, I would still get a taste here and there through online clips, and I was…

  • Black Mirror

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    With all the buzz this UK series has been getting of late – a new special just aired – I decided to finally check it out, and I’m sure glad I did. I just watched the very first episode (there are 2 seasons of 3 episodes each, plus the new special) and it was definitely…

  • Ascension

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    I’ve only watched the first episode of this 3-part mini-series that aired last week on Syfy, and it’s surprisingly really interesting (so far). The setup is really neat – the US sends out a spaceship in the 60s, on a 100-year voyage to a new world, and a crime happens 50 years in. Without spoiling…

  • Tales from the Borderlands

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    To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to really get into this series, considering I don’t have that much interest in the franchise – I only played a few hours of the first game, and it just didn’t grab me. But wow, I thoroughly enjoyed this first episode, to the point where not only can I…

  • The Sensational December Machine

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    Gotta love a company that shares something special like this – an interactive short story – with its fans for the holidays. Simogo simply can do no wrong.

  • Game of Thrones

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    One of my most anticipated games this year was Telltale’s take on Game of Thrones, and the other day I played through episode 1 on iPad (I play all Telltale games on iPad, my platform of choice for that type of game). It starts out slow, and at first I wasn’t digging the aesthetics at…

  • Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

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    Got this for free for PS4 over the weekend thanks to EA’s gift to everyone during the PlayStation Experience event, and hey, this is a pretty fun multiplayer game! A friend of mine kept saying how much he enjoyed it, and although I’ve just played a bit, I have to agree. The graphics are fun…