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It's funny how when you have all the time in the world, thos ethings which interest you grow old and boring. Then when you have real business to take care of all you're thinking is "Oh I wish I had the extra time. I'd do this and that and this and the other things and I'd never complain!"...

It's not exactly new but you could check out Heroes of the Storm, too. It's free to play but it's not formatted to be cheesey about it. You can put up a pretty good fight with the stuff you earn just by playing. If you like any of the Blizzard properties, you'll probably enjoy this one. It...

I know this will come off weird since it's a cult hit now, but I swear no one would give Okami a chance when it came out. I saw it advertized by Morgan Web on her tv show back in the day on G4. I fell in love with the visual style imediately. It was my introduction to Shinto mythology, which I...

Capcom's Final Fight is the one I still pull out to this day. I adore the sound and controls on that game. I was into wrestling as a kid and the pile driver moves in this game were similar to the types of things people were doing on those shows. I also loved Turtles in Time! As far as I'm...

NINTENDO SIXTE FOOOOOOOOOUR! I was a teenager when that came out but I was very excited for the games that I dreamed would be coming out on it. It had a lot to do with my long standing love of the Super Nintendo. "Imagine what they could do with 64 bits!". To this day I still think it's...

My experiences have been pretty poor when it comes to buying used games in the post-cartridge world. Usually "used" means "we broke it, but maybe not enough for Store X to notice so we'll resell it to them and make it someone else's problem.". I've bought consoles with jacked up disk trays and...

Well, Sonic Mania is coming out in a week and a half. It is already out on consoles but my money says the PC version will be definitive. There's a solid chance a reasonable modding scene will develop around it too, which will lead to lots of fun user created content. The PC crowd has waited...

I have a lot of those. I used to be like a machine at the original Mario Kart and now for some reason I can't even remember how to handle the drift mechanic with any real dexterity. I also used to handily beat Little Nemo when I was younger. The later levels int hat game are brutal, which is...

In the old days I would have struggled to find a clear winner between Nintendo, Capcom, and Squaresoft. Today I simply don't have one. Game development is far more influenced by publishers now and the problem with that is the actual development studios rarely hold on to a single franchise long...

There was actually a formal study just done that demonstrate these games don't really boost your intelligence more than they help you maintain what you already have. Having said that, I think problem solving skills can be exercised to some minimal extent with games like sudoku. The problem...

I will admit that before the release I was not happy about the level retreads, and I remain resolute in my wish that they had simply made all new levels after having defeated the last boss. Having said that, they actually do manage to justify the retreads in an interesting way and all of them...

I'm kind of jealous. The original Playstation has some of the best games ever made. Final Fantasy VII is routinely still cited as one of the best games of all time on lists to date. Did you have any titles that were especially influential on your tastes going forward? Do you still keep up with...

I would have to say, to much controversy I'm sure, Super Mario Maker. I was honestly shocked at just how much of the central Super Mario experience was missing from the editor. Central mechanics like slopes and ? orbs that end a level once you beat a boss were utterly non-existent. This was made...

If you don't mind digging through older systems' libraries, you may try Call of Cthulhu on the original Xbox. It takes place in Lovecrafts famous town of Innsmouth as you sous out the clues left behind by a mysterious cult who's been toying with things they shouldn't. The action is slow and...

After yesterday's release, I'm eagerly anticipating another Sonic game done in the old style. I think Nintendo's approach with the Mario series sets precedent here: You can have your side scroller that focuses more on classic style game play while your flagship title is in 3D and more...

It seems like Final Fantasy XII is a game no one likes. I adore it. It's like a single player MMO! I adore the licensing system and the side quests. I thought the characters were fun, if yes, a touch generic. The world of Ivalice is among my favorite fantasy locales, and this is its finest...

I pre-order as little as humanly possible as I consider it unethical. Rewarding a company for having produced nothing is bad for consumers. So is the attitude it fosters where publishers use early adopters as essentially another round of beta testing for software that often has been forced into...

The Atari 2600 was my first home system, but my first video game was a Pac-Man machine at an American Army barracks near Frankfurt Germany int he mid 80s. It's hard to explain how phantasmagoric that was for people back then, looking so primitive by modern standards. But the lights and the...

Sonic Mania, while released on consoles today, is coming out in two weeks for PC. If you preorder now you get a few bucks off. I can honestly say it's worth full price if you love the classic Sonic games as I do. I'll probably end up buying it on PC as well simply because I'm anticipating a mod...

I find the nearest save point and either turn it off or plug it in. I usually have all my devices recharging when I go to sleep anyway so it's not a big deal. I take it as a message that maybe I've been sitting too much if I actually outlast the charge in one of my devices and try to go do...