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Face Value: Dead or Alive 5
Known in some circles as the “beautiful fighter” — and not necessarily in a congratulatory sense — Dead or Alive is nonetheless my favorite fighting game series, and that status is only reinforced...
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Games and More Games
As my mom recently pointed out, I think gaming is in my blood. As a kid I was always the one who wanted to drag out the Knight Rider board game, or The Game of Life, or Aggravation or even freaking...
View ArticleA Taste of the Mechromancer
Just a quick update tonight as I come off a couple hours of Borderlands 2 goodness, during which I sped through several additional levels as Gaige the Mechromancer. Now that I’m getting class skills,...
View ArticleA Grab Bag of Game Impressions
I should have been asleep already, but as usual, nocturnal waking dreams and ideas have conspired to plunge me into another pet project for a brief time. Part of it has wound up bringing me here to...
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Oddball Review: FTL (Faster Than Light)
I’m a huge fan of video games and space opera (Star Trek, Firefly and such), so when I discovered a tasty blend of both in FTL, a space exploration game for the PC, I was immediately intrigued....
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Just When I Thought I Was Out, PC Gaming Pulls Me Back In
As Christmas approaches and I become seasonally smitten with the idea of some nostalgia-fueled gaming goodness, this year I find myself extraordinarily well outfitted for the task. With more Xbox 360...
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Oddball Review: Tomb Raider (2013)
You might think that I’m a closet Lara Croft worshiper given how many Tomb Raider thingies I’ve reviewed on this site. Or maybe it just seems that way to me, since I always seem to use this post as my...
View ArticleXbox None
Ooooh guess what guess what? This week Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, hardware successor to the Xbox 360 game console. It’s been a long seven and a half years since the 360 landed in stores, and it’s...
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The Xbox One and the Future of Video Games
For a long time now, I’ve had a draft post saved on my WordPress dashboard entitled “The Changing World of Video Games”. I’ve worked on it at various times, usually when hot-button issues in the gaming...
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My Next-Gen Game Plan (Or: How GameStop Bought Me an Xbox One)
After relaunching Oddball Update earlier this year and proceeding to write nearly a post per day about all manner of things — including tabletop games, my new realm of interest — a three-month hiatus...
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