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Some thoughts about Borderlands

I finished Borderlands last week! It’s one of the few xbox 360 games I completed lately.  A game needs to be engaging for me to spend more than a few hours on it thanks to all the other games that I want to play and my backlog.
Things I loved about the game:

Diablo loot-a-thon + first [...]

Waiting for Diablo 3? Play Torchlight

No, PC gaming is not dead. Far from it. I’ve been playing a lot of Torchlight during my spare time lately. It’s a dungeon crawling loot-stravaganza for the uninitiated. The UI is great. The art design is whimsical. Your character model changes depending on what you have equipped. Oh, and every class [...]

The Stick

The BF got me the Street Fighter VI Tournament edition stick for my birthday a month or so ago.  The original artwork was mediocre, so we worked together to mod it.
The original stick looks like this:
I fuddled with a template based on the Sega Astro City arcade cabinet and sent the finished artwork to Art’s [...]

Ladies of Street Fighter Tournament

Me vs. Stacy the Manager
Don’t laugh at my Game Face ™! This weekend was the Ladies of Street Fighter tournament at Arcade Infinity. It was the first tournament I’d ever seen in person, much less played in, but it was a good experience. I hadn’t imagined it would be so nerve-wracking.
I came in [...]

State of the Game Address

I’ve been spending a lot of time playing video games, but I haven’t been playing many video games. I’m still on my training schedule for the SFIV tournament at Arcade Inifinity on the 27th. If you want to see me get my ass kicked, feel free to come watch. After the tournament, [...]

Hands on with Shiren 3 at E3

How could I forget to post about this yesterday? I also spent a few minutes playing the Japanese version of Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3 (Wii) at the Atlus booth. Shiren 3 explains more about Shiren’s mysterious path, for those who follow the story. With my very limited Japanese, I was able to [...]

E3 in a day

I don’t know how people can do multiple days of convention.  One day of E3 was enough for me. It must take a lot of stamina to work the booths for so many days straight.
I checked out the new skate board peripheral for Tony Hawk. It seemed to work better than I thought it [...]