January 2011
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Thumbs on Fire's Random Awards of 2010: Favourite...
In the next couple of days I’ll finalize and post up some manner of unordered “Favourite Games of 2010” list, but to be honest I’m even more excited about writing this up. Every year there are a couple of moments in gaming that make you drop your jaw, pump your fist, or just force you to pause the game for a second and think about what exactly you’d just done.
It...
December 2010
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Thumbs on fire's Random Awards of 2010: Best Game...
So like most things I inevitably end up writing about, it was less that I decided on this particular award and figured out a winner, and more that I found the winner and then realized this was something that need to be discussed. So without further ado: Super Meat Boy has hands down the best damn trailer of this year.
Though there were a good number of interest-piquing,...
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Sunday Musical Interlude - Dec. 26 2010
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Crazy Kwanzaa, etc. etc. to one and all. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, but the dual beasts of holiday eating and drinking have been taking up an inordinate amount of time. No more, however!
This week’s “Sunday Musical Interlude” is from one of the most iconic game series ever to grace the virtual landscape. If...
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Quick Review: Infinity Blade (iPhone)
In what is the first and quite potentially the last of its kind, I’ve decided it’d be a good idea to review the iPhone game (that still sounds weird to me) Infinity Blade. Developed by Chair Entertainment, the guys who made last year’s stellar Shadow Complex, it’s become evidently clear that the mission statement over at Chair is to take gaming venues not necessarily...
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Deus Ex: Revolution Delayed
This is a terrible thing to wake up to.
It seems that, due to the less-than-stellar year Square-Enix has been having, they’re basically burning down what’s left of their fiscal projections for 2010 and stacking all their eggs into 2011, as a press release reported today (via kotaku) states:
With weak sales performance of console game titles that have been newly released during...
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Video Game Clothing: This Shit Needs to Stop
Now, being a gentleman of the nerdly persuasion, I can understand the difficulties that fashion creates. I mean, god, it is a constant daily struggle just to insure that I don’t end up looking like the neighbourhood bag-man due to an unkempt appearance. And, to be honest, there are a number of days where I still manage to fail miserably.
I mean, I get it, fashion’s hard. Especially...
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Sunday Musical Interlude - Dec.12 2010
This Sunday’s musical interlude showcases the grand pa’ of music games. Back before we had our own plastic guitars, drums sets, turntables, keyboards, and whatever other crazy expensive nonsense they come out with every year, having us simulate music more and more realistically, all we wad was a playstation controller, bad graphics, and little dog in a toque who wanted to be a...
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A Few Thoughts on the VGA's
I know this was Saturday night, and I’m a day late and a dollar short, but some of us don’t have televisions, and so we have to figure out alternate arrangements in order to watch B-list celebrities woodenly read off of teleprompters.
I mean MAN were there some terrible announcers! With the exception of the guys from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”, who made me...
The Future of Gaming: Conning Kids to Spend their...
A new wave of Ipad and Iphone games, which I hesitate to truly label “games” but I’ll hold my curmudgeonly old-school beliefs to the side for now, are apparently making big waves for their controversial new marketing strategy: giving the game away free, and then charging real money-dollars for buying items, some of which cost as much as a hundred dollars.
Now, this isn’t...
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Crazy Internet Stuff: Portal Speedrun
I found this in my daily internet trawlings, and I thought this was something that I needed to show to as many people as I can. Witness: the Portal Hell Speed Run.
The player, an individual by the name of DemonStrate, through the use of crazy tactics and a couple glitches, managed to burst through a game, which takes most on average around four hours, in under ten minutes, most of which is...
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Sunday Musical Interlude
And welcome to another Sunday Musical Interlude! This week, I’m giving you one of the songs that has been stuck in my head intermittently for months. Few games have managed to nail the atmosphere of a game in a song as well as Blizzard, and the music used in the village Tristram from the original Diablo is a perfect example of this fact.
This song is iconic, almost as much as the...
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"Super Tofu Boy" PETA's Latest Advertising...
In related news, PETA’s kind of lost their goddamn minds…
I found this little piece of internet-entertainment earlier last week, and though that it was something I need to share with the world. It would seem that PETA’s latest attempt at anti-meat gaming has chosen their latest whipping boy: Super Meat Boy. And so what better way to get your vague, semi-militant...