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Five Things: Mass Effect 2

I know, I know, it took me a really long time to get back to an Adult game (although really, Alan Wake counts, so shut up).  I totally missed the boat on the first Mass Effect for a long time, only procuring a copy when the second one was imminent so that I would know [...]

Five Things: Alan Wake

Right, so I’m cheating a bit.  I do have quite the list of completed games that I need to catch up on here, but I just finished Alan Wake, and I’m itching to write about it while the whole thing is still fresh.  Anyway, this is MY column!  I do what I want!  /belligerent
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Five Things: Pokemon SoulSilver

I’ve played a lot of Pokemon games, but I’ve never actually made it all the way through one.  What usually ends up happening is that I start playing, think “THIS IS SO AWESOME,” then get bored and meander off to do something else in about two hours.  I don’t know why this has generally been [...]

Five Things: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

It’s been a long time since I played either of the Kingdom Hearts games for the PS2, so even though they remain among the few titles that I will never even consider trading in (a somewhat rare honor these days), I’ll readily admit that I had to hit up Wikipedia for a refresher on the [...]

Five Things: Final Fantasy XIII

As many of you know, I used to write a semi-regular column for this site chronicling my (mis)adventures attempting to reduce the size of my considerable video game backlog.  It sort of trailed off into nothingness, though; I play a lot of games, but I play them at my own pace, which is sometimes very [...]