Category Archives: Videogames
August 28, 2013 Star Trek (The Game) Review
The instant you slap the Star Trek label on something my interest is piqued. Years and years of great Trek have conditioned me to salivate when that bell is rung again. I went into the 2009 movie with some trepidation, but I was still inclined to like it. And I did! …mostly. It was, as […]
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August 27, 2013 Tuesday 10: The Simpsons Tapped Out Tasks
I have hesitated to do this list for a while because it would be way more effective with animated GIF screenshots, but I don’t have the foggiest idea how to do that. On top of that, there’s like three of you that even play this game, so I’m basically saying to the world at large, […]
Tags: iOS, Simpsons, Tapped Out
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August 8, 2013 What I’m Playing: August 2013
A few years ago the very idea of playing games with a social element to them elicited a hearty “meh” from me. Farmville was the shining example and it had no appeal to me whatsoever. But, as we’ve talked about before, somebody had the idea to put a Simpsons wrapping around Farmville and I’ve been […]
Tags: WIP
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July 8, 2013 Guest Post: Jill of the Jungle
Today’s guest writer is Carolyn Lawson, a friend of mine who lives in Australia, of all places! She writes The Bent Bobbin, but would like me to warn you it’s about sewing and knitting and such, not about movies or games. I was also warned not to “Americanize the spelling” and I have complied because […]
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June 20, 2013 A Pyrrhic Victory?
Good heavens is this ever dizzying. So now Microsoft has (relented? backtracked? realized the error of their ways?) changed their minds about some of the XB1 features: no more DRM preventing used game sales and no checking in online every 24 hours. Yay! …maybe? I should stop being surprised that people can gripe about any […]
Tags: XB1
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