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Eee! Fanboys!

This is the week of E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, being held in Los Angeles. It’s the big American video game trade show of the year, and it’s when all the video game companies make their upcoming hardware and software announcements. Many sites, like Joystiq, are publishing reports from the show floor.
One of [...]

Someone Left The Cake Out In My Brain

I’m on a roll! I actually finished another video game!
Not only did I finish God of War: Chains of Olympus on the PSP a few weeks ago, I also just completed Portal (one of the games in The Orange Box compilation) on the PS3. I first mentioned Portal way back in this post [...]

Tortura

They still have not determined the cause of the recent salmonella outbreak that was initially blamed on tomatoes. But I know the cause. See if you can guess what from this quote from this article: Other food-safety experts, including Doug Powell at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., have wondered whether jalapeños, green [...]

Spartan… Witness The End!

Woo hoo! I finally done did it!
Portrait of an obsession:
I haven’t talked about video games in awhile, mostly because I haven’t been playing them as much as I’d like. I got derailed playing Grand Theft Auto IV on the PS3 when I bought The Orange Box and started playing one of its games, [...]

Comparing Donkey Schlongs

I finally got a chance to see The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters tonight. Fabulous. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss two bits goodbye. The story of champion Donkey Kong player Billy Mitchell vs challenger Steve Wiebe is a tale for the ages.
Though I did play a lot arcade games [...]

Unplugging Toasters

I know I’m trampling on one of my own sacred crows (yes, I worship crows and not cows) here, but I gotta say I’ve been disappointed with Battlestar Galactica so far this season. [Warning: Some spoilers ahead for those of you who aren't caught up or who watch by DVD-only.] Five episodes in, [...]

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