Author Archives: Mark
September 16, 2014 Tuesday 2.5 Billion: Minecraft
Last week I bought Minecraft for my XBox One. I feel I’m pretty much the last person on Earth to play this game, but I’ve come to understand that’s how it works: stuff I like before other people do never lasts and stuff other people like I don’t get around to liking until pretty late […]
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September 12, 2014 TrueAchievements
I, like most folks, enjoy lists and summations. Any time you boil a bunch of stats down into an easily-digested format, I’m all for it, especially if it’s not terribly important. A “Facts about cats” infographic is a great idea; a “Ways people were tortured for their convictions” one, not so much. So something that ties […]
Tags: Achievements, XB1, Xbox
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September 9, 2014 Tuesday 9: Movies from 1980
Every time I cull the lists for these farther-back years, it cracks me up more and more. I know it’s not amusing in the sense that it’s funny to anyone else, but it is amusing to me and now I must keep going. There’s sure to be a year that I have seen no movies from, […]
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September 8, 2014 Forza 5
Over the weekend, Xbox Live Gold members who have an Xbox One were given the opportunity to play Forza 5 for free. It was a 40Gb download, but don’t look a gift game in the mouth, right? It took about 3 hours to get it downloaded and installed and I ended up playing it for […]
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September 5, 2014 Watch Dogs
I am this close to finishing the game Watch Dogs (Xbox One), by which, of course, I mean that I have almost all of the achievements for it. I finished the storyline two weeks ago, and have been trying to mop up the bits and pieces here and there. (EDIT: I got the last achievement […]
Tags: Watch Dogs, XB1
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