Gaming

Oct 24, 2009

October Loots

It’s been a pretty good month for games. I managed to pull off some more fancy trade shenanigans and managed to get more credit/games for ridiculously cheap.   First I went to EB’s preowned sale and got myself some cheap games.  Total cost:...
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Sep 17, 2009

JB you've done it this time

Recently JB began clearing out some of their older and shit games with a 50% off sale.  With titles like Blue Dragon for $12,  and plenty of other $20 titles on the side, this was  a perfect opportunity to make a little credit on the side. I pulled...
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Sep 01, 2009

Starcraft 2 Beta Tower Defense

I freakin finally beat the flash tower defense game that Blizzard have put out.  This game has probably wasted a good 5 hours of my life. The winning strategy? Missile and laser spam. Edit:  Strangely enough, I haven’t been able to replicate my...
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Apr 20, 2009

Super Robot Wars: A primer

In 2003, I played my first Super Robot Wars game. At that time I was only a fledgling Gundam fan, with little knowledge of mecha and Japanese in general, but this series totally blew me away with its beautiful animation, and I’ve been hooked ever...
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Apr 13, 2009

Classic gaming: Skies of Arcadia

Where YJ revisits an old favourite In 1999, Sega released the Dreamcast. The system had a good variety of games, most of which were arcade ports, but fans of the system were hoping for an RPG that could be the system’s own Final Fantasy. In the...
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Apr 09, 2009

EB Games – making them work for you

EB Games has gathered much scorn over the past few years as being the gaming retail outlet that charges RRP for everything. Why buy at EB when you can go to JB to get it much cheaper? Despite this, I actually do most of my games shopping at EB nowadays....
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Apr 03, 2009

Classic gaming: Wing Commander

Where YJ reminisces about one of the best games ever made Back in 1990 when I got my first computer, and I just started getting into PC games, I watched my bro play a game which totally captivated me. That game was Wing Commander.
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Mar 30, 2009

Wii, the day gaming died a little

Having owned all the consoles for the last 2 cycles, there’s always clear winners and losers as to which console is played most. In the last generation, we had the original Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube and I’d argue the Dreamcast as well...
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