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I’m not an up-in-arms-over-every-little-thing sort of person, but when it comes to people blaming video games for everything wrong with society, that prompts me to search for my soap box. Lucky for you, I found it.
If you haven’t heard by now, Brandon Crisp, a 15 year-old from Barrie, ON, went missing a couple of [...]

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For whatever reason, I decided to fire up Half-Life 2 and play through it again this past weekend. I’m not sure why I did, since it’s been a long time since I’ve played an FPS on a PC. Sure enough, all of the things that make Valve a premiere game studio were there [...]

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Peter Hirischberg, an AOL software engineer, has created his very own 80’s-styled arcade, complete with over 60 arcade and pinball machines that he restored.
http://www.youtube.com/v/MTXgQE7XcXg
Seeing this arcade makes me nostalgic for the days when gaming-related networking involved bumping elbows and face-to-face conversations instead of TCP/IP. Peter’s pride and joy looks like a faithful representation of [...]

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On Friday, our Wii was returned to us from Nintendo. When I powered it on, I was pleased to see nary a blinking pixel and heard no loud buzzing noise when a disc was spinning. In summary, our Wii left Kitchener on the 7th and was at Nintendo’s repair centre in Scarborough the [...]

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I’ve heard about it. I’ve read about it. Lo and behold, it happened to me.
On Friday evening before venturing to the airport to get Dena, I decided to pass the time by trying to make some progress with Metroid Prime 3. After an hour or so, I began to hear a loud [...]

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As an update to my last post about the banning of Manhunt 2 in the U.K., it appears that the AO rating that the ESRB recently gave to the game effectively prevents it from being played on Nintendo and Sony’s console. Nintendo and Sony both have a policy in which no AO-rated games can [...]

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Manhunt 2 for Wii and PS2 is banned from being sold in the U.K.. That’s a shame and I feel sorry for the responsible gamers across the pond.
Manhunt 2 from Rockstar, a follow-up to the original Manhunt title from 2003, will be released this summer for the Wii, PS2 and PSP. It will [...]

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This weekend, Dena and I were wrapping up some Christmas shopping, which included a visit to the Futureshop over on Gateway Park Drive. As we were preparing to leave and Dena was headed to the checkout, I ventured over to the game area in the hopes that they’d have a Wii demo station. [...]

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Nintendo has announced that the Wii will be available in Canada (and elsewhere in North America) on November 19th for $279.95 CDN. I haven’t been an avid console gamer since the days of the SNES, but I’m definitely interested in the Wii, and I’m rooting for Nintendo to inform Microsoft and (especially) Sony what [...]

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If you’ve been around me within the past year, you’ll have probably heard me go off on a long diatribe against Sony. Indeed, I have quite the hate-on for Sony, and here’s why.
Dell has had a recent run of bad publicity with laptop batteries catching fire. They updated their website dedicated to battery [...]

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