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How was the Zelda Concert? Well...
Nintendo + Apple
Playlist: Catching up on all of 2011, pretty much
Holy moly, school hit me hard. I haven't updated what I've been consuming since last summer. Well then, it's time to catch up, and to do so quickly, I'm going to borrow a concept coined by my dear friend...
Blake Recommends: the Lightning RoundToday, I finished DJ Hero 2. (Yeah, I'm way behind on my gaming backlog, school is utterly demolishing me lately). It was the best music game I've ever played. When Guitar Hero came out, it was widely...
RIP Music Games, 2005-2010
Games ARE art, see?!
My mother has never entirely understood roleplaying. I don't intend to belabor the point, but when I was a young man it was the position of our church that Dungeons & Dragons held within it the clustered...
They told me it was something elseGame Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits It's true. I worked as one. It's a crappy job.Also, it's very convenient to simply read their aggregation of actual journalism done, the not shit journalism...
Go read this websiteI'm back early! If you can believe it, I was laid off from a summer internship. My colleague (and fellow Austinite) Will Leverett wrote up the situation, and I think most of us would agree with his...
Back to San Diego...Summer and pop culture go hand-in-hand. Summer movies, summer reading, and in the last couple of years the world of gaming has even embraced summer releases. Here's what I'm hitting recently:Books My...
Blake Recommends: Summer EditionIn two words: Dance Central. This E3 was the year of cool devices: Kinect from MS, Move from Sony, and the 3DS from Nintendo, better known as The Guys Who Already Did Motion Control or This Year's...
Why Kinect will winIn my previous post about Blizzard I alluded to having a different summer job. This is it.I'm working on All Points Bulletin, which is basically Grand Theft Auto Online. If you're reading on my proper...
To Colorado!I've been putting this one off for a long time. But now that my summer job search is over I can breathe a little easier and share one of my favorite moments in the search: an invitation to the Blizzard...
A visit to BlizzardOh, man. It's time to get caught up on some gaming action. This was originally the 'Valentine's Day edition,' given the timing of when I played all these things, but then school came along and decided...
Blake Recommends: April Fool's edition