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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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The Offseason

By GoW | Published: August 15, 2008
Is being a sports fan sim­i­lar to play­ing World of War­craft? No. But hav­ing sea­sonal dura­tion hob­bies is!
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Dynamic Duos

By GoW | Published: August 8, 2008
One of the great joys of WoW is how couple-friendly it is. My wife and I are suck­ers for some coop­er­a­tive mul­ti­player, and we haven’t looked back since we set up her account. We play together all the time, doing dailies, farm­ing mobs, instanc­ing and raid­ing (although we’re learn­ing that being new par­ents isn’t really [...]
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Pixeljunk Eden is joy

By GoW | Published: August 6, 2008
This review is going to fail. I’m a big fan of words and writ­ing, but some­times they just fail, and describ­ing what sim­ple joy actu­ally feels like is one of those times. Rather than try to describe the mechan­ics of the game or what it’s about, I’ll work on why I like it.
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The Pleasant Surprise

By GoW | Published: August 1, 2008
In The Incred­i­bles, Dash is the young son who can run and move very very fast, like the Flash. There’s a scene where he’s run­ning away from some mer­ce­nary vil­lains, through a jun­gle. So he’s zip­ping between trees and jump­ing over logs, but his vis­i­bil­ity ahead is lim­ited because the jun­gle is so thick. Sud­denly [...]
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