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-REVIEW: PAM: Post-Apocalyptic Mayhem-
Pam, you've got some serious issues

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PAM: Post-Apocaplyptic Mayhem Developer: Steel Monkeys Price: $9.99 (PC, Steam) My god, I JUST finished putting this thing back together! What a piece of S*!#  

-REVIEW: Tobe's Vertical Adventure-
treasure hunting is dangerous business

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Tobe’s Vertical Adventure Developer: Secret Base Price: $4.99 (PC, Steam) Dear boy, why won’t you listen to me?

-REVIEW: BIT.TRIP.RUNNER-
sensory overload: the game

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Developer: Gaijin Games Price: $9.99 (PC, Steam) BRAIN, STOP RUNNING DAMMIT

Indie Cred: Because it's Monday

Alright. It's monday. I'm working on like 3 articles right now and none of them are ready to publish. But that doesn't matter because I've actually spent the last 2 hours playing this game. Slayin' Play it, and be glad.

per aspera ad astra: The Birth of the New Philosophers

I never intended this blog to be anything more than a repository for game reviews. Clearly, it’s spiraled out of control and landed in a no-man’s land of lead-hounding news-chasery that often leaves me feeling physically and emotionally drained and burdens my blog with an unbearable lightness. But what little integrity I have left after all this divestitude still begs me to come back time and time again to my own thoughts and my own ideas as opposed to letting my inhibitions limply tumble aside in the face of the cancerous metastasization of my muckraking pseudojournalism.

So Totally Out of It

Man, I feel like I've been sucked into a time vortex. You know how there are those days that just swoop by so quickly that you don't realize that time is passing by and before you know it you've been wearing the same clothes for the past week and you don't seem to know anything anymore? I just read the Steam news stream. READ it. PERUSED it. And came away informed. INFORMED! Normally I pride myself on being at the forefront of updates, both great and insignificant, but this past week I find myself knowing absolutely nothing. Sengoku came out? Darksiders was on sale? Indie Game releases on Steam left and right? Paradox making a huge publishing push? I'm so out of it. So, dear readers, catch me up! What have I missed? I feel like I've come back from a forced vacation from a job I love and all my coworkers have found new friends and started new projects while I was gone. I want the news, man. I want to dive back into the slow roll of the waves and the interm

-REVIEW: Rock Of Ages-
killer curves and a fiery red heat

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Title: Rock of Ages Developer: ACE Team Publisher: Atlus USA, Inc. Price: $9.99 on Steam Rock of Ages, cleft for me, rolling to time’s destiny / while I draw this fleeting breath, when thy rocks may smash to death / Rock of Ages, cleft for me, still I find no time for thee

Couriers in the Machine: Using Piracy to lower distribution costs

Hey there! So either I've been dead or in a coma or something, because This thing hasn't been updated in 2 weeks. I am neither, BUT I am something which is preventing me from updating on a regular basis. Is it a super-secret relaunch and redesign? Is it a crazy blog import to a more accessible platform like Wordpress? Is it death or a coma? Anyway, I ran across this little article on Games For Change , a blog and group I follow for news on how games are being used in novel and prosocial ways in the world at large. After all, the great US of A, for all our great gaming wiles, is not the be-all-end-all of the industry. In fact, not truer words could be spoken if I were to speak of how perpetuating the industry requires an investment in the world market. And not just in terms of entertainment, but in terms of betterment. I think this is where all man-made industries should do their best to end up in, regardless of whatever evil forces may attempt to skew them for evil's

-REVIEW: Deus Ex: Human Revolution-
a lot like chicken miso noodle soup

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Title: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Developer: Square Enix Eidos Release : Aug 2011 $49.99 (PC) $59.99 (X360, PS3) Adam Jensen, part man, part machine. Problem-solver, gun-shooter, sweet-talker. Machine part: responsible for problem-solving, gun-shooting, and sweet-talking. Man part: wait, what? Shit.