We go to rescue a retrieval team from a ruined Resistance base, and find some Turians.
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This week I’m finally getting back to book reviews, with a look at the horrible novel by Eric Van Lustbader – Black Blade.
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So, for this week’s Quality Control pick, I chose a mecha action game that had caught my eye earlier in my magazine recaps. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get past the second level, even with the use of save states. This isn’t due to difficulty, precisely, as much as it related to an obstacle in the level that I was supposed to destroy to progress, but the obstacle wouldn’t be destroyed, no matter how much I hit it. So, I really wasn’t able to progress enough in the game
This week, I’m going a little more topical with my videos and discussing a current event – Harlan Ellison‘s attempt to stop the release of the film In Time.
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Sci-Fi Author Harlan Ellison Claims ‘In Time’ is Ripping Him Off, Sues to Stop The Film’s Release (moviefone.com)
Film: Newswire: Harlan Ellison suing makers of In Time, as any Harlan Ellison would (avclub.com)
Harlan Ellison Suing New Regency, Claims ‘In Time’ Rips Off His Short Story (slashfilm.com)
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This week I’m going off on another rant, as I discuss the opinion voiced by the International Red Cross about depictions of war crimes in video games, as well as giving a call to action on the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Red Cross vs. Video Games of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at)
War Crimes in Video Games Draw Red Cross Scrutiny [Video] (kotaku.com)
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: International Committee of the Red Cross, SOPA, vide
We find some of the survivors from the Turian Arc, and help tag some of their debris, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
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Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 63 – “…serene in their assurance of empire over matter.”
At long last, we take down Kai Leng.
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Over the past few months, I’ve been doing a Let’s Play of Mass Effect 3. I felt this was the best time to do that Let’s Play, with the impending release of Mass Effect Andromeda. We also have some time and distance from the initial controversy over Mass Effect 3’s ending, and the second wave of controversy over the “Director’s Cut”, which meant that I could approach the game fresh, without any of that baggage. So, how does Shepard’s final outing fare?
The final installment of the series has the
Just two days late, I’m giving my thoughts on EA, Ubisoft, and Sony’s media briefings from E3. I never said I’d be timely, now would I?
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I saw the latest installment of the Legendary Films Godzilla Cinematic Universe! Here are my thoughts (mostly spoiler free) on Kong: Skull Island. Please refrain from spoilers until 4/15/2016, to give people at least a month to see the film.
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This time we’re covering issue #50 of Nintendo Power for July of 1993
“Link’s Awakening” Gameplay Footage by TheRagnarokSeeker
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Games Reviewed:
WWF Royal Rumble – LJN
Run Saber – Atlus
EVO: The Search for Eden – Enix
Mario is Missing – Software Toolworks
Bubsy – Accolade
Link’s Awakening – Nin
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Well, my original plan of reviewing King Kong didn’t pan out for reasons I explain in the video. Instead, I’m giving my thoughts on the film 9 Songs.
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Another week, another review – and this time I’m doubling-up on the book reviews with my take on another of this year’s Hugo Award winners – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
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Book Review: N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (parkinglotconfessional.com)
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This week I have a review double feature – the science fiction novel The Quantum Thief, and the film The Avengers.
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Review: The Avengers (shugamama.wordpress.com)
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This week I have another video game review – as I take a look at the last title to come out of Bizarre Creations, James Bond 007: Blood Stone.
Gameplay footage by:
Shockwave981 – http://youtube.com/shockwave981
TheMediaCows – http://youtube.com/TheMediaCows
Featuring a guest appearance by Diamanda Hagan!
http://diamandahagan.wordpress.com
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Preview: James Bond 007: Blood Stone (joystiq.com)
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The problem with picking RPGs for Quality Control picks is I often don’t have the time I need to give it the consideration it deserves. Normally, when I’m reviewing a platformer or some other, more traditional game, I’m able to beat the game in an emulator in a day – or at least get far enough in the game that I can get a pretty good feel for the game. Not so with most RPGs – so I basically had to play this game over a weekend (though you can’t tell, because I
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Sorry for this review taking so long to go up – when I originally downloaded the gameplay footage from Skorch82 for this video review, it was somehow corrupted – which meant I couldn’t convert it from FLV, which meant I couldn’t edit it in properly. Thus, I had to re-download all the video on the fly while I was editing the video. Hence the delay. However, the work is done and now my review is presented for your consideration.
Now, without further ado, I prevent my review o
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I love physics. To be more accurate, I love all the space sciences. This ties in to my enjoyment of science fiction series like Star Trek and Star Wars, and from watching documentary series like Nova on Public Broadcasting as a kid. Plus, like most people, I love underdog stories. So, when I learned about Professor Stephen Hawkings, a physicist from the UK who helped to expand our knowledge of how the universe works in spite
Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series kicked off something of a new renaissance of Urban Fantasy. The genre had existed before – authors such as Emma Bull and Mercedes Lackey had written works in the genre, but what made Harry Dresden distinctive is how well it combined the Urban Fantasy genre with the hard-boiled detective novel. I had previously read Storm Front, and several of the later books, but hadn’t read any further books in a while. So, I figured now was as good a time as any to revisit th
We got a few recent news stories recently about Diablo 3 which I wanted to address now while they’re still topical.
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Blizzard Entertainment, Diablo III, News, Video games
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