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I’m a fan of a lot of things that are outside the system or are independent in some way. I like indie record stores (now defunct Bionic Records in Huntington Beach, and BooBoo Records in SLO), indie webseries (Retarded Policeman, The Guild) and most of all indie games. They just do it for me.

After playing some of the larger independent games, like Penny Arcade’s “On The Rainslick Precipice Of Darkness” and having absolutely nothing bad to say about the experience, some of the smaller developed flash games like the amazing side-scroller flash version of Portal, and jumping in late on the Uplink bandwagon – I must say that I absolutely love games made by smaller companies. Sometimes just a couple of people, as with 2D Boy, and they come out with an original compelling game that I want to play.

I will definitely be picking it up to support people who have the drive to create something outside the system and the ability to make it as high quality as something made inside the system. I just can’t wait for the Mac version.

[From 2D Boy: Games]

I’ve been putting this entry off for a while, not because I dislike this game but because I can’t really think of anything that I really need to say about it other than: If you like Penny-Arcade then you’ll like this game.

As has been said many times before, the fighting mechanics play a lot like the Mario RPGs – what comes to mind (probably because I’ve played it most recently) is Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

Anyway, I’m not being very creative today and I didn’t take any real screenshots from the game, so I have nothing to show off but I assume by now that anyone interested in playing the game has already bought it and played it (maybe multiple times) and if you haven’t played it and not sure if you’d be into it there’s a demo download which I highly suggest (purchasing a keycode will unlock the game.)

Linky

-Tyler

In one of the coolest promotional ideas I’ve seen to date, Penny-Arcade’s Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (better known as Gabe and Tycho, respectively) and PvPs Scott Kurtz teamed up with Wizards of the Coast in anticipation of the release of the 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons to play a game – and they recorded the audio. You can either download it from the linked site or put the RSS URL into iTunes and have it download automatically every time it comes out!

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After hearing the announcement that Doom 4 is going into production I stopped and thought about it- does this really surprise me? Fuck no. Doom 3 was a game that everyone and their mother was waiting for and that was annoyingly dark and that fucking flashlight that won’t attach to your fucking gun so you can see and shoot like a fucking sane person instead of trying to shoot, check where the monster is with the muzzle flash, adjust to the newish position of the monster, shoot again, find out you didn’t hit it again, lather, rinse, repeat.

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Today the first full trailer for The Incredible Hulk was released, and while somewhat disheartened that Emil Blonsky seems to be British rather than Russian, it looks like the movie is going to be amazing.

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I picked up Okami this weekend and have to say that I’m enjoying it very much. I didn’t really understand what the whole IGN Watermark scandal thing was about until I actually saw the box art for myself. When you know what you’re looking for (even if you didn’t know exactly where to check) you realize how big of a mistake.

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