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5 Games To Play When You need More Poetry In Your Life

Apple’s iPad comercial (http://www.apple.com/your-verse/#video-your-verse) reminded me that I need more poetry in my life. Here a few games I go to for poetry 🙂 Nihilumbra Braid Limbo Device 6 The Room(this one doesn’t really contain any poetry in motion or otherwise but it inspires me)   Where do you get your poetry in this tech …

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The Beta Batlle.net App is Kinda Cool

Hi,   I have to say the Batlle.net Desktop Launcher App Thingie is kinda cool. You can login once then launch all your Blizzard games from one place without having to re-login. Even across restarts. And you can install your games without downloading that awful launcher for each one of them. And it has subtle …

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Building Your Own PC

Hi. My first ever PC was built by a couple of economics majors(now big time moguls) who probably had no clue what all the parts did but found ways to snap them together like Legos (ok, am I being too harsh?). The components were mainly “no-name” or “built on a ship from Taiwan” as we …

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Why Do I Play Games?

Hello… umm… anyone there? A recent article on Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/why-do-we-play-games-458801312) has reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to write about for a while. While the question “why do you play games?” (video games in particular, ofc) seems like rhetorical nonsense to some, a lot of people who haven’t discovered the joys of gaming ask …

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Let's Remember that Game: Episode 1

Hello, Do you know that feeling when you remember a game that you discovered and really like and felt special because it wasn’t one of those big publisher games that are all over the media? Well, if you don’t, you should try harder :)! I want to create a series of posts remembering games that …

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Game On

Quick update: as you might have noticed, I’ve added two widgets to the sidebar with my Xbox Live ID and my PSN ID. Feel free to friend me, maybe we can rock some game together, or maybe not, who knows :P. Come to think of it, I haven’t played a good multiplayer game in quite …

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Do You Have Conviction?

Quick gaming update. In case you haven’t been living under a rock you know who Tom Clancy is. Bringing him aboard for their games has probably made Ubisoft a boat load of money. And for good reason. I am not a big fan of the Ghost Recon series and I wasn’t too impressed by Endwar …

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Gomoku

I dug up one of my old projects, an implementation of the game Gomoku – a game played on a Go board where the goal is to build a row of 5 stones. The goal of my project was to apply the minimax algorithm using a pruning heuristic to reduce the game states search space. …

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