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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
Posted in Comics, Music, TV and Movies, Video Games
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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Notice on DFA Documentary/Broken Age
While PCS still awaits the Kickstarter Collector’s Edition we wanted to give you a heads up on the excellent Documentary by 2 Player Productions now being on Steam as well as a bundle sale on Broken Age with the documentary … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 player productions, broken age, double fine, press release
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Mindjacking, Puzzle Solving, Pixel P & C Fun (DEMO style)
I just finished the demo for Technobabylon which you can get off their website or on STEAM: Official website: http://www.technobabylon-game.com/demo Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/371800/ It was one of the best p & c demos I’ve played yet. It was an amazing teaser … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, adventure game, technobabylon, wadjeteye, wadjeteye games
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I hope I can afford an Afterlife train ticket (Grim Fandango Remastered overview)
In 1998 I was in third year of college and working hard. I’m not even sure how I found time for video games, but I did and on top of that heap was Grim Fandango. Up to that point I … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure games, doublefine, doublefine games, grim fandango, lucasarts, tim schafer
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Tim Schafer Games: the History of, and my Love of BROKEN AGE
Double Fine Adventure was what turned me into a Kickstarter fiend for a few months. The only thing that ended that fun was a mix of finances and seeing certain projects I funded just take way too long. Still I … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, broken age, double fine, double fine adventure, doublefine games, games, history, reds, review, tim schafer
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Cognitive Reasoning Turns Its Final Time
When things end, especially serials we hope that even if they end with room for more, they offer a satisfying ending. One we can contemplate and understand what has come and what may come. With so many series recently ending … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure games, cognition, erica reed, phoenix online studios
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