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Nov 12, 2011
Giant Bomb Unplugged, a.k.a TheBeast's Introduction to Board Games is a blog series intended to introduce the Giant Bomb community to board gaming. I'll try to introduce a couple of games in every edition, hopefully there'll be something that interests you somewhere. Enjoy! For this board game post, I tried to pick a few games out of my collection that are more likely to appeal to the video-gam...
Giant Bomb Unplugged - Part 1: Ticket to Ride, Dominion
Oct 3, 2011
Giant Bomb Unplugged, a.k.a TheBeast's Introduction to Board Games is a blog series intended to introduce the Giant Bomb community to board gaming. I'll try to introduce a couple of games in every edition, hopefully there'll be something that interests you somewhere. Enjoy! You’ve played Monopoly. You’ve experienced the seven hour campaign to take over Mayfair, that one perfectly nice person th...
Unordered List: Ordered Edition - Games of the Year 2010
Dec 31, 2010
Firstly, hope you all had a great christmas - and all the best for the new year! As much as I put off writing these things, I'm glad when something comes along to convince me to get on with it. In this case, it's my Best of 2010 list. TheBeast's Best of 2010 10. Game Dev Story When I set out to write this list, I never imagined I'd be adding this game to it, but then I looked down at my iPad at...
Unordered List: Fires, Kinect & 'Real' Games
Nov 15, 2010
My prose can be somewhat unwieldy at the best of times, the primary reason my attempts at blog posts never get past the first sentence. Here's my attempt at solving that while potentially making for a more confusing reading experience by distilling this blog format in to a bulleted list of vaguely associated thoughts. I'll let your own creative minds weave them in to whatever format you can bes...
Red Rings & Gadget Things: Down But Not Out?
Apr 13, 2010
Red Rings I knew it was coming when the other half started complaining of distortions and tearing when she was playing Kameo; not that knowing made it any easier when I heard a shout of "The Xbox isn't working!" across the house on Saturday evening. Yeah, so the glowing red ring showed its face. I was annoyed, as one would be, but at the same time somewhat proud that the thing had survived 3 ye...
TheBeast's Best Games of 2008
Dec 17, 2008
It's a phrase that's been overused and misused to the point where it's vacant of any distinct meaning, but I'll go ahead and use it anyway; this year was a good year for games . Publishers like EA and Ubisoft pushed out more quality titles than we've seen for years and new releases from acclaimed developers such as Rockstar and Valve shot up the charts. With the continuing popularity of 'casual...
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