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Steaming about Customer Support

by July 15th, 2011 - Culture » Video Games »

I love game company Valve and their distribution system, Steam. I have logged many hours basking in the “Om Nom Nom” of the zombie survival game Left 4 Dead, have sat in awe of the Half Life and Portal franchises, and have discovered such strange indie games However, it never dawned on me that they […]

Revenge of Return to Son of Monkey Island

by July 26th, 2009 - Culture » Video Games »

image copyright Telltale Games and LucasArts You know…there was a time when my mind wasn’t always the near perfectly functioning abstract steel trap that it is today. Yes…there was indeed a time I would have never thought of putting a bomb in a pair of frilly pink bloomers left to dry and explode on a […]

AudioSurf – Riding the Wave

by May 24th, 2009 - Culture » Sounds » Culture » Video Games »

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty […]

Zen and the Art of n00b Maintenance

by December 26th, 2008 - Culture » Video Games »

It would not be accurate to describe myself as a die-hard, long-storied, massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game player, but I have certainly logged a few hours in the past – intensely – and may well be on my way to deserving such a description as I’ve recently taken a few trips with VALVE‘s very […]

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