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GOTY 2012

10 items in list • Created Dec 31, 2012

E3 2011 Most Anticipated Games

14 items in list • Created Jun 8, 2011

Games I've Started and Actually Finished

48 items in list • Created Dec 31, 2010

Best of 2010

10 items in list • Created Dec 31, 2010

One Script, Two Heroes - Voice Acting in the Black OPs 3 Single Player Campaign

Jan 8, 2016

On Black Friday, my husband and I purchased a second Xbox One. We weren’t initially going to do that, but we had reached a tipping point between the cost analysis (it’s expensive and we’re just two people) versus the games that we wanted to play together, namely Halo 5 and, in 2016, the new Crackdown. Our discussions were long. We ended up making lists of games that could be played co-op and on...

JadeGL's Totally Awesome and Totally Arbitrary GOTY Awards

Dec 31, 2015

There are some years where I feel like I have missed out, that I have spent too much time in the clutches of one game, only to realize as Christmas passes that I really, REALLY, should have picked up some other titles. At the start of this year, I wouldn’t have pictured myself in that situation. When my husband would turn to me and ask, “What’s next?” I would shrug my shoulders and go “I dunno,...

Activision Blizzard Job Posting Points to Focus on Optimizing Classic Blizzard Games... Maybe More?

Nov 4, 2015

As a stalwart lover of all things Diablo, today is a weird day. It seems like the news coming out of Activision Blizzard as we near Blizzcon 2015, which runs from November 6th through November 7th, has become a deluge. Just yesterday, Austin wrote an article about Activision Blizzard acquiring King, the developers of the devilishly addictive and mind-numbingly successful mobile game, Candy Crus...

The Great Loot Debate… Deboot? Debate!

Sep 23, 2014

I am a sucker for loot driven games. Ever since I first installed the original Diablo, I’ve been trying to find new and fun ways to accumulate new and better gear. In Western RPGS like Oblivion or Skyrim, I end up spending hours upon hours searching every shelf and chest in every house and cave for unique weapons and armor. If it has a special name and skin, I desperately want it. It doesn’t ma...

How I Remember Her - Games and Creating Memories

Sep 2, 2014

These past few weeks have been rough. People are tired, frustrated and emotions are raw. That’s all I will say about that. This piece isn’t about what is bad or frustrating about games, but instead about what is so very good. It’s about the ways we find friends and keep them, how memories are formed and treasured when we play games, and how our lives can become so much richer when we play. When...

Haunted Thoughts - My Experience with P.T.

Aug 17, 2014

Sometimes when I play a game, I don’t end up thinking about the game when I am done. I end up dwelling on things I’ve read or seen before. A game, or more accurately a demo, that was very effective in doing just that recently was P.T. Unless you’ve been living in a cave with no internet connection, you’ve probably already heard about this”playable teaser” and how it’s just a very clever and fri...