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EXPeriencing ‘Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection’
Cover image via NaughtyDog. There weren’t a ton of games I felt I was missing out on by having an Xbox 360 instead of a PS3, but the Uncharted series was one of them. I knew they had Assassin’s Creed-like puzzles and an Indiana Jones-like story line. What’s not to like about that? When Terry and I got a…
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EXPeriencing Console Wars & Rekindling a Love for Console Gaming
Cover photo via Pennyworth Reviews Twelve years ago, Sony and Microsoft were engaged in a battle that still wears on today, though thankfully with less internet yelling. Nintendo dives in occasionally, too, but when I think about “console wars,” I’m taken right back to 2006 when Microsoft released the Xbox 360 and Sony fans were…
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“But this does not define you…”
Cover image from Moana. Screen cap via. An approximation of how I’ve felt the past few weeks. I’ve had a rough few weeks. Personally, professionally, mentally, emotionally, physically… you name it. It’s been difficult to fire on all cylinders. After a particularly trying week, I gave myself permission this weekend to just be. Terry and I…
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EXPeriencing The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
Cover image via. The Legend of Zelda is my childhood, but not for the same reason as most of my peers. In 1992 when I was three years old, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was released in the United States. Like many families, mine had a Super Nintendo. My dad liked video…
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EXPeriencing Overwatch (and Why It’s Better than Team Fortress 2)
Last year I wrote about watching the amazing cinematic trailer for Overwatch. I also noted that while it was an awesome trailer, it looked like a Team Fortress 2 ripoff. I am here to report that after playing Overwatch in its first week, it may have similar elements to TF2, but it’s not a ripoff. In fact, I am having…
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Traversing “Monument Valley”
I almost never spend money on apps. Case in point, I’ve owned an iPhone since 2011, and I’ve only spent money on two apps: a Couch to 5K running trainer app and “Monument Valley.” I had never heard of “Monument Valley” until my sister texted me a screen cap of the intro screen (above) saying, “YOU…
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EXPeriencing the Best Game Trailer I’ve Ever Seen
Trailers are an important marketing tool, obviously. For movies, video games, and even books, the trailer heaps on the hype leading up to the work’s release. Trailers are so important nowadays, we even have trailers for our trailers (lookin’ at you, Ant-Man). Sometimes those trailers are good, sometimes they’re meh. Sometimes it doesn’t matter whether…
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EXPeriencing the Hype: Guild Wars 2’s First Expansion
You know I love Guild Wars 2. I just recently told you how much I love it. So it’s no surprise, then, that I am super. freaking. pumped. for Guild Wars 2’s first expansion, Heart of Thorns. Starting almost exactly two years ago, GW2 launched what they call the “Living Story.” Season 1 of the Living Story built…
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My Favorite Video Game: Guild Wars 2
All images are my screen caps while playing Guild Wars 2. My favorite video game, far and away, is Guild Wars 2. This MMO and its predecessor, Guild Wars, have played a huge role in my life for the past 10 years, and in light of what could be (should be, better be) Guild Wars 2′s…
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