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As if to give life to itself, two separate careers started as a simple "choose your own adventure" game on early 1980's home computers. The setting In the early 80's, myself and my best friend Joshua had home computers. Unfortunately, they were not the same model. He had the popular…
When I was in my early twenties, I used to imagine a future where work and school were no longer considered "work". I envisioned a scenario where kids and young adults would simply sit at a desk and "play" a "game" all day (and get paid for it). The business…
There are an enormous number of game reviews for Bungie’s Destiny game written by professional journalists who get paid for writing game reviews, so I will try to give a personal approach to my review. When Destiny was first released, I remember it being touted as the newest game…
One of the reasons I chose the XBox Bundle that I did (besides the 1TB hard drive) was because of the games it included. One of those games was Ori and the Blind Forest. From the very start, I was hooked. It has a great story and challenging gameplay. Getting…
One of this month’s Games for Gold on XBox Live is Valiant Hearts: The Great War. I downloaded it last night and started playing. The game takes you through the lives of four characters during World War I. It is a combination of puzzles and action sequences. The graphics…
I bought my desktop PC in 2007. I bought a Dell XPS 420 with 2 GB of RAM in it. It’s a quad core Pentium i5 running at 1.2 GHz. A few years later, I upgraded the video card to an NVidia GTX 550 Ti and upgraded the…
I finally bought my own copy of the X-Wing miniatures game yesterday. Laurie was kind enough to play with me last night. It turns out she really enjoyed the game so I’ll probably get to play more of it in the future. There’s an active community of X-Wing…
When I was a kid, our first home gaming machine was the Telstar Pong console. I think it had four “games” and three levels of difficulty (the size of the “paddle” got smaller). Oddly enough, I still have this thing, though I cut the video cable off of it for…