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Vitals Published by Microsoft Studios Platform(s): XBox 360/One, Playstation 4, Windows, Linux & Mac Developed by Humble Hearts Retails via Digital Download Steam for $16.99 (CDN) -|- XBox Marketplace for $14.99 (USD) This top rated action platformer stands head and shoulders above its competition and peers. While there are role-playing...

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  • April 27, 2014

Vitals Published/Developed by Valve Platform(s): Windows, Linux & Mac Retails via Digital Download Steam for $10.99 (CDN) Consider also Half Life Complete for $43.99 High Definition Version: Half Life 2: Update (Free) Let’s get this out of the way: The Half-Life series is an unfinished story for which its players...

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  • April 26, 2014

Each company is scrambling to cannibalize its previous/current customer base and shove us grinning and bleating into the future. Let’s understand that. Whether we want the new systems is not the point. Whether we can afford it will determine the success of Generation Next.

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  • February 27, 2013

The heavy hitters of the gaming personal computing industry have been striking out lately, and they don’t appear to know why. Blogphilofilms has a good take on the epic failure of Windows 8. Watch it. He put the nail on the head better than I could have, though I have...

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  • February 22, 2013

Farming has never received proper media coverage because it reflects poorly on the state of the industry. We depend heavily on Asia for our MMO experiences, and thus cannot demand that they cut a limb off. Except that one of the largest players in that industry just did.

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  • February 13, 2013

I find it refreshing that Gabe Newell is taking a Microsoftian approach to the retail offerings of what may revolutionize in-home gaming. Recognizing your influences is part of being a responsible creator. Unfortunately he hasn’t done that this time.

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  • February 8, 2013

Presently the fans are doing a better job of taking care of the franchise than the legal rights owners are. Fandom caretaking of this ilk are not alone – MLP:FiM is in a similar situation. Season 4 is a “cat out of the bag” all right, as in how proud was DHX Media to admit it?

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  • February 7, 2013

The fact of the matter is that Depositfiles and its ilk are not to blame for the demand. It was a response to a vacuum, like tape decks in a vinyl era, we loved the music and wanted our friends to hear it. CDs, MP3s, we’re going to find ways to share content. These days corporations have more power to push the means by which we do so than ever before, and little guys like Depositfiles are figuring out how to cash in on our habits.

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  • January 26, 2013

Let it be an example to those big corporations aka Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft (listed in order of customer hearing impaired-ness). Nintendo got a break with Mario – fluke, luck – not market research. Sony is the product of style, a little street cred, hard work and a lot of money. Microsoft is pure marketing, but to survive they’ve turned up their hearing aids.

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  • January 24, 2013

So I waited. It turns out I was waiting for the safe solution, which arrived in the form of Letterbomb. Look it up. This lovely piece of software enabled me to install HackMii and the HomeBrew Browser without risking my Wii to the trash. It succeeded. In fact, it was easy. HomeBrew Browser and Linux have revitalized my interest in the Wii entirely.

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  • January 15, 2013