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The Incident is Unforeseen but Completely Worth it
Traditional point and click 2D third person adventure games at high levels with excellent voice acting are a rarity. Especially in 2018. Unless of course the publisher is Application Systems Heidelberg, who this year are also publishing an HD remake … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, mystery, point and click, point n click, unforeseen incidents, video games
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Looking Ahead to 2018 Part 2 (Video Games)
GAMES Telltale Games The Wolf Among Us-Season 2 & The Walking Dead Final Season: Telltale does a lot. Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Game of Thrones, even original stories based in Minecraft, but their FABLES prequel and their Walking Dead … Continue reading
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Tagged a way out, double fine, knights and bikes, lamplight city, left alive, no more heroes, ooblets, pc, ps4, tunic, unavowed, vampyr, video games, where the water tastes like wine
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The Bit Awards of 2017 Experience
I was very excited to attend this year’s The Bit Awards. From the pre gaming, to the being there for the show live and the after party. It did NOT disappoint. There was plenty Monster, donuts, pizza, drinks, etc. before … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, Events & Expos, Video Games
Tagged playcrafting, the bit awards
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The Pop-Culture Spectrum Preview of PLAY NYC
On August 19-20, 2017 NYC game creation and education group Playcrafting hosts the first major video game convention in NYC combining PAX and GDC as best they can. While New York has hosted game conferences and major panel talks and … Continue reading
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Give Me Some of Those Funky Fresh Beats
What if I told you a game could truly deliver almost everything and deliver it in package that explored almost every visual style that video gaming has used? What if I told you this same game could use recycled jokes, … Continue reading
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Tagged funny, hilarious, jacob janerka, mutants, paradigm, pixel art, point and click, point n click, silly, synth music, videogames
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Population 81 (strike that) 80
In 1987 at the tender age of 10 I had owned a Commodore 64 for a few years, falling in love with Infocom, Sierra, Tellarium and other individual games in the adventure genre. It was in October of that year … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, lucasarts, mystery, point and click, point n click, ron gilbert, suspense, thimbleweed park, video games
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2017: A Look Ahead
2016 is near its end or it’s over based on when you read this. It was a rough year in many respects, but it gave us a ton of excellent pop-culture. 2017 as of now promises to do the same. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Comics, Music, TV and Movies, Video Games
Tagged 2017, bones, books, degrassi, double fine, double fine games, dunkirk, excitement, flaming lips, fox television, george saunders, lego batman, michael critchton, Music, netflix, night in the woods, random house, steven universe, thimbleweed park, video games
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A New Frontier is still full of Pain & Walkers
When you go into anything associated with Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead you know to expect dread, pain, and situations in which you feel that everyone was in a “screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t, so may as … Continue reading
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Tagged telltale, telltale games, the walking dead, the walking dead a new frontier, twd
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2016: The Year That Was (Making The Best of a Bad Thing)
2016 isn’t over but it will be soon. It’s been a really rough year for many folks, for pop-culture, for the world as a whole. Yet, many of us still stand and we can’t just stop. We must keep going. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, best of, review, year end
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Who Thought Landing Your Head Could Be So Fun?
As anyone who pays attention to me or this infrequently updated site (which is why there’s a twitter feed running and links to all my social media elsewhere), I am a huge Doublefine Games fan. They’ve yet to make a … Continue reading
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Tagged adult swim games, doublefine, headlander, lee petty, video game
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