Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review: Play Nice

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 Play Nice is Jason Schreier's corporate history of Blizzard Entertainment. Written in a breathless manner that befits its subject, the...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Review: Steam Deck OLED

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 My brothers bought me a Steam Deck OLED as a birthday present.  I remember playing the heck out of the PS Vita back when I bought one, and...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Review: Marvel's Midnight Suns

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Marvel's Midnight Suns is Firaxis' turn based card game set in the Marvel Universe. I usually enjoy Firaxis's strategy games, a...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Review: Life is Strange - True Colors

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 I kept intending to play Life is Strange: True Color s, but what tipped me over was seeing it at the library and checking it out. It took m...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow showed up on many "Books of the Year" lists. I checked it out of the library with suspicion,...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Review: Scooby-Doo Betrayal at Mystery Mansion

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 There was a sale on Amazon for Scooby Doo in Betrayal at Mystery Mansion  for $13. My first edition copy of Betrayal at The House on the Hi...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Review: Gran Turismo 7

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 I didn't set out to play Gran Turismo 7 . What happened was that I found a good deal on a Thrustmaster T150 for $100. Since I had a co...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

Review: Hades (PC)

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 In 2019, some colleagues of mine were raving about Hades . Not being willing to pay full price, I waited for a sale, and when Epic Games of...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Review: Cyberpunk 2077 (PS5)

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 I actually pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077 , but the reviews ahead of the actual release were so bad that I cancelled my preorder and elected to...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

Review: Horizon Zero Dawn

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 Horizon Zero Dawn came with really good reviews. It is, however, one of those cases where the gaming press preferences run pretty counter ...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Review: Press Reset

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 The subtitle of Press Reset is "Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry." I picked it up expecting light reading in the fac...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Review: Dreams/Art's Dream (PS5)

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Dreams (PS5) is a game construction kit. I don't actually have time to construct games, no matter how easy to use the construction kit i...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Review: Ghost of Tsushima (PS5)

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 I'm learning the professional game reviewers play games very differently from those of us with day jobs that don't involve games, s...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Review: Spider-man Miles Morales (PS4 Pro)

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 I wasn't going to pick up Spider-man: Miles Morales until it had dropped in price, but all the reviews mentioned that it was a short g...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Review: D&D Adventure Begins Cooperative Board Game

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 So much of what I could do with Bowen was because he was a precocious reader, never being intimidated by board games that required reading ...
Monday, January 04, 2021

Review: The Last of Us Part 2

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 Several years ago, I reviewed The Last of Us and compared it with eating your vegetables. Not having very much experience with video games...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Review: Blood and Truth (PSVR)

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 I got the PSVR several years ago, but until recently never got around to actually finishing a game on it. Part of it is that the medium do...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Review: Knizia's Lord of the Rings Board Game

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With shelter in place, I had the kids at home nearly all the time. I started working through some of the board games I'd bought to play ...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Review: Beat Saber (PSVR)

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I usually have a rule about finishing a game before I write a review, but I'll make an exception for Beat Saber.  The game's been ar...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Review: Monsters 2

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Monsters 2 is the sequel to Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD . When Bowen learned that this was available for the PS4, he didn't hesitate...