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Child’s Play can make you awesome

By GoW | Published: December 18, 2008
I’m not a fan of using images when words would do, but in this case I feel it’s warranted: Child’s Play, if you’re not aware of it, is a char­ity that gives video games, books, and toys to children’s hos­pi­tals. Any child unfor­tu­nate enough to be stuck in a hos­pi­tal over the hol­i­day sea­son is [...]
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Swâpped Letters in Namês

By GoW | Published: November 29, 2008
In these won­der­ful online games, the longer one sin­gle name­space exists, the fewer the names avail­able in that name­space. At some point, all the good names are going to be taken. What then? Gúess.
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Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero

By GoW | Published: May 30, 2008
Since I bought Rock Band (RB) for my PS3 a few months ago, Gui­tar Hero 3 (GH3) grew roots on the shelf. GH3 was my first fake-music game, and I enjoyed it very much. But the same source who prod­ded me to try Gui­tar Hero implored me to try Rock Band. And sure enough, I [...]
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Drama is Inevitable

By GoW | Published: May 19, 2008
Like most peo­ple, I learned the hard way about sec­ond chances at relationships–backsliding, regres­sion rela­tion­ships, what­ever you want to call it. Namely that they don’t work, despite the fact that regres­sion sex might sound like just what you need after a series of ter­ri­ble first dates. How­ever, unless one of you has been in a [...]
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PS3 love

By GoW | Published: April 18, 2008
Way back in the day, I was a Sega per­son. Like every­one else at my col­lege, I had a Gen­e­sis (Jenny), but I fol­lowed Sega into the Sat­urn (good sys­tem, far too expen­sive, some mem­o­rable games), and the Dream­cast (out­stand­ing sys­tem, some fan­tas­tic games). Then Sega came to an end due to their own pric­ing, [...]
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