This is a very funny image and I feel like I need to explain it a bit. Adrian Hon is a game designer who with his brother Dan helped pioneer the early ARG style games where you find clues in a real world using elaborate puzzles that end up giving you something in a virtual …
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holedown is the best game of 2018
holedown is my favorite game all year. It starts with a bit of a grind, as you learn the basics of the game, but if you keep plodding along after a few hours and maybe a couple days of casual play, you’ll start adding more balls to every turn and move your way from asteroids …
Innovation with Solitaire?!
Last summer I was bored one day and searched the app store for solitaire apps. I admit, this is like telling the universe you give up, you're so bored that you'd like to play the most boring game known to man, the game most synonomous with isolation and going it alone. I started playing the …
The future of Microsoft
A lot of people seemed worried about Microsoft's future, given less people are buying computers running the Windows OS and their Microsoft Office cash cow could be threatened by free alternatives going forward. But I have to say in the week I've owned an xbox 360, I can't believe how often I've used it (often …
Health Month (so far)
Health Month is a new game (currently in beta) designed to help you find that ever-elusive motivation that you need to improve your health. via healthmonth.com I've been playing the Health Month beta this month and it's been a great motivator to get out of my office chair and onto my bike and into some …
Amazon blows for video games
I’ve bought a handful of video games this year and my local Gamestop seems to have trouble getting new games on release day (“sorry, UPS didn’t show up yet, maybe tomorrow”) and for the popular games, they insist on pre-ordering with a deposit. Since Gamestop was a hassle, I started ordering stuff on Amazon instead, …
Playstation 3: complete failure for casual gaming
The other day this thought popped into my head and since several people asked, I wanted to expound on my original point. First off, let me just say I’m a casual gamer — for the past seven years I’ve usually owned one console game system and I play it about once a week for a …
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A Wii little story
A friend from college visited me a few months ago and we played a few rounds of Wii tennis and he fell in love with the game and wanted one. Then I had to break it to him that it was still currently almost impossible to buy a Wii. He recently told me a story …
Poll the Audience: A couple Wii questions
1. Is there a RSS feed of new Wii games? I looked around Amazon and maybe there’s a feed for this new and future Wii releases page but it doesn’t seem to be sorted by release date. Is there something better out there? 2. The News channel has a great interface that also reminds me …
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Where there’s a Wii, there’s a way
Everyone I know seems to want to score a Wii on launch day, and most are betting on second tier outlets to get one. I agree and think that the world will line up at Walmarts, Targets, and BestBuys around the country so the secret is to find another option that is big enough to …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 