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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.
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Dead Space 2 – Do you Enjoy Impaling the Undead with Their own Limbs?
Every once in a while—not often, but once in a while—I come up against a game which is in a genre I enjoy, has great graphics, sports a decent plot, features a good system of upgrades, and contains a fair… Read More ›
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The Truth is, You Don’t Know Jack
Once upon a time there was a quiz videogame that, rather than being based on a television show made itself appear as though it actually was a television show, and a rather crass one at that. From sexual innuendoes to… Read More ›
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Glee Does Valentine’s Day
During their second season, a good number of shows tend to suffer a dramatic decline in their quality of storytelling, or at the very least a perceived decline in their quality of storytelling. It’s a little hard to know exactly… Read More ›
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That’s Right, I’m Also Picking my Favorite Super Bowl Commercials
I am always vaguely shocked the morning after the Super Bowl when I read about what commercials others thought were the best. There tends to be this moment when I think to myself “What is wrong with those people? That… Read More ›
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Two Worlds II – Orcishly Good Fun
Some games like to hold your hand, slowly introducing you to the interface and the options and the story. A subset of these games go far past the hand-holding-during-training phase, they tell you quite specifically that you need to head… Read More ›
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Hysteria Project 2 – We Recommend Not
Oh so long ago I put myself on the pre-order list for a Sega CD and got one as soon as possible following its release. Among the games that came with the add-on system was one called Night Trap which… Read More ›
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Watch TV. Trust me, it’s Good for all of us
There are some nights that I sit there and watch TV and just kind of wonder why I do it. There I was last night watching V and just wondering why I still had the show on my TiVo. There… Read More ›
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Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (But do Ninja Masters Ever Really go Away?)
Sega has quite clearly found an emulator that they like to bring their old Genesis games to the iPhone and consequently we’re getting rather regular releases of old Genesis titles. One of the latest of these is Shinobi III: Return… Read More ›
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Virtua Fighter 2 on the iPhone: Virtually a Good Idea
Maybe, just maybe, not every old console title needs to be ported to the iPhone, especially when far superior arcade versions of the title exist. Sega has now released Virtua Fighter 2 for iOS, but not the Virtua Fighter 2 that… Read More ›
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Kingdom Hearts: Re:coded – It’s a tad Wonky
To be up front about it, I am a huge fan of the idea behind the Kingdom Hearts series – mashing up Disney Characters with Final Fantasy ones to tell a new story is odd and yet the first title… Read More ›
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Reliving the Glory Days – Samurai Shodown
Stop me if I’ve told you this story of my youth before… Growing up I spent a number of Friday night’s at the local pizza place. Although it was officially known as “King Pizza,” everyone in my town referred to… Read More ›
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Secretariat – Not the Winner You Want it to be
Having a great story to tell doesn’t necessarily mean that one is going to end up with a great movie. Is story an important component in putting together a film? Unquestionably, but it isn’t the only thing and while it… Read More ›
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Season Four of Battlestar Galactica Hits Blu-ray – Was it Worth the Wait?
It would be difficult to imagine exactly who would go out at this moment and purchase Battlestar Galactica Season Four on Blu-ray not having seen the first three seasons, but this new release does mark the first time that the… Read More ›
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Revving up SBK X: Superbike World Championships
Videogames make lots of things possible in a virtual world that would in no way ever be possible in reality. Even simulation games, no matter how real they may seem, are never quite able to approximate the real world. For… Read More ›
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Back to the Future: The Game – It’s About Time
At this point in time, Telltale Games’ style is well established. They have become very successful in recent years putting out “seasons” of a game made up of several different “episodes.” The games’ style harkens back to the classic LucasArts… Read More ›
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Soap Opera Dash – Because DinerTown Games are Fun
Do not let anyone tell you that making a soap opera isn’t hard work. Soap opera stars put in incredibly long hours day after day after day, and when you consider the fact that they’re often making on the order… Read More ›
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How I Met Your Mother and the Countdown to the Big Moment
Normally watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother takes me roughly 23 minutes – episodes of the sitcom run for 30 minutes, but subtracting time for commercials due to watching via TiVo, I’m able to shave a few… Read More ›
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Berzerk Ball – Violence Never Solves Anything (but that Doesn’t Mean it isn’t Fun)
An odd little Flash game for computers, Homerun in Berzerk Land features you playing as various characters and getting the chance to smack a geek off the edge of cliff to see just how far you can get him to… Read More ›
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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Tomb Raids onto the iPhone (But it’s Kind of Like Looting a Corpse)
With some games I find myself either really enjoying the title or greatly disliking it without being able to put my finger on exactly why I feel as I do. More often than not, this difficulty arises with a game… Read More ›
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Altered Beast and the Evils of Nostalgia
It is a sad truth that not every game needs to be ported to every system, particularly when the game doesn’t have anything other than the nostalgia factor going for it. Back in the day, I popped many a quarter… Read More ›
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