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A Song of Ice and Fire, now in game form

Posted in Books, Games, Role-playing, tagged , , on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Such a weird day for news. Turns out that, unlike certain games becoming books, certain books are now becoming games. George R.R. Martin’s excellent Song of Ice and Fire series has been opted for a video game. Expect the game to look and feel a lot like Oblivion and other such WJRPGs.
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The Elder Scrolls, now in book form

Posted in Books, Games, Sci-Fi, tagged , , , , on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Good news for all you Elder Scrolls and Oblivion fans. Turns out that Bethesda are releasing a book set in the Elder Scrolls universe. The book, to be penned by famed author Greg Keyes, takes place after the events of Oblivion.
The Infernal City is set after the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion®, the [...]

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Video game addiction experiment: day 4

Posted in Art, Books, Games, Images, Life, Psychology, tagged , , , on April 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Night Noises by Fayyaad Hendricks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
I apologize for the overimagification, but that’s the result of two days of challenge. It’s actually left me a little on the drained side, but…it was actually fun. It’s weird how much I can accomplish when I’m not actually [...]

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Video game addiction report: day 1

Posted in Games, Geek, Life, Psychology, tagged , , on April 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »

So day one of the “Do I have an addiction issue?” experiment went by. And I’m sorry to say that it was a reasonably painful day. I’m going to go out there and say that if I’m not a addict, I’m borderline at the least. Let me put it this way: I took an afternoon [...]

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Personal experiment: video game addiction?

Posted in Games, Geek, Psychology, tagged , , on April 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I read this article about video game addiction at GameSpot with great interest, seeing as how the article discussed two interests of mine: psychology, which I studied at university, and video games, my favorite down-time pursuit, and an industry that I’d love to work in. The article is long (runs into four pages) and unless [...]

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Games I would love to play

Posted in Culture, Games, tagged , , , on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yes, back to the guys at college humor. Great article, very cool posters
Read the article here.

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Today’s insanity: the best cosplay costumes you’ll see all week

Posted in Culture, Games, Images, Insanity, Nintendo, Role-playing, tagged , , , on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Some people put a lot of passion into their passions, and I suspect none more so than cosplayers. Video game cosplayers tend to be quite meticulous about their costume creations, but these are seriously the best costumes from video games I’ve seen in a long while. The linked picture is from the brilliant game Katamari [...]

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Insane LCD blast from the past

Posted in Games, tagged , , , , on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My previous post made me seacrh around for the old AA battery powered games and I stumbled across this gem —-> Retrogames. There was also hand held empire. and Brainiac(not a pretty site, but got lots of images of the different hand helds which is what ya want).
One of the sections I was browsing was [...]

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Stephen King talks about video game violence

Posted in Culture, Games, Questions, tagged , , on April 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Acclaimed horror author Stephen King talks about violence in video games, and specifically about a Massachusetts bill that the lawmakers want to put into effect regarding the sale of violent video games to minors. Says King:
According to the proposed bill, violent videogames are pornographic and have no redeeming social merit. The vid-critics claim they exist [...]

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