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2016 was a huge year for me personally. I quit the best job I ever had and moved to Toronto to go back to school in order to chase a dream at almost thirty-years-old. With all the change, I currently live in a gaming time vortex. I am currently listening to Giant Bombcast/Beastcast episodes from November 2015. I probably do a third of my total yearly gaming in the month of December and this Dec...

One of the local game stores, Gamecycle. I feel like one day, Nintendo will finally send them that seize and desist for using their character without permission. After hearing Giant Bomb's Game of the Year 2009 Deliberations (or rather hearing Brad sway the whole panel on the Wii Game of the Year discussions by spoling the ending), I knew I had to play the game. About a year ago, I picked up th...

THQ’s Homefront Woes Written March 29th, 2011 Jacob McCourt From the most popular games coming from small teams sometimes consisting of a single man in the 1980 and 1990s to huge 500-man studios and 30+ million dollar projects now, video games have become big business. Like all other big businesses, product launches can make or break companies. One video game company faced this situation a few...

Stats related to 2010 completed games: Busiest Month: December (6 games) Least Busy Month: March (0 games) Platform Breakdown: PC - 1 game PS2 - 2 games PS3 - 2 games Wii - 3 games 360 - 15 games Download Titles: 6 games (Plants vs. Zombies included) On Disc Titles: 17 games Games I didn't really enjoy: Dead To Rights: Retribution Shank Star Wars: Force Unleashed II Toy Story 3 - The Game (The...

In these two videos, I pull a page from the Michael Pachter book of making wild predictions about video games sales. I'm not a expert, so please, let me know what you think about my predictions! Part 1: Schedule Part 2: Sales Predictions

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2010/01/29/ipad-sucks/ Check this article out for some of the critism about the iPad. Here's my beef with the Apple iPad. In the Apple Press Conference announcing the device, Steve Jobs touts the device as doing certain things better then a SmartPhone and certain things better then a laptop. Sure, it's portable and looks great but in my mind there's no need for...