Entries Tagged as 'Video-Games'

Runes of Magic: First Impressions

August 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Gaming, Previews

At first look, I automatically thought this game would be a World of Warcraft copy. After spending a decent amount of time on this game and getting to level 33 I feel I know enough to give some impressions to everyone First things first, the game is free! Yes, FREE!. Now of course there are [...]

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Over XBox Achieving

July 7th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Commentary

I understand there is a huge debate over the merits of Achievements on the XBox 360, and for the most part I think people tend to make a big deal out of nothing. Either people put way too much into getting them or they often feel too strongly about how worthless the concept is and [...]

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Vectorized video game art

December 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Asides

From Drawn.ca: Using the VectorMagic web app, Philipp Lenssen took pieces of screenshots from video games and vectorized and enlarged them, creating some abstract, but very familiar, images. Link

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No one ever thinks about the Ghosts

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Asides

From “The Dynamic Trinity” by Matt Burlingame. I especially love the guy from Dig Dug. (via who killed bambi?)

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Must… resist..

August 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Asides

… making a Wii joke about this. (via Autoblog)

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What I’m (not) playing

April 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Gaming

I’ve been in a bit of a gaming lull the past few weeks. I haven’t been completely out of gaming, but for the better part of the past two weeks, there has been very little buttonmashing going on. I don’t know if it’s apathy, lack of anything compelling to play, or what, but I just [...]

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Comic watch – Get Fuzzy

March 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Entertainment

(This is a new (hopefully regular) feature here at buttonmashing.com, where I find comic strips in the dead-tree newspaper desperately trying be relevant by making pop culture references by referring to video games. I’m not trying to be a “Comics Curmudgeon” (one of my favorite sites) but I still have to point it out when [...]

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Video game capital of America?

March 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Asides, Gaming

Where is the Video Game Capital of America? Seattle? Austin? San Jose? Nope. Salt Lake City. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: It’s called gamer’s thumb, and families in Salt Lake City could be among the nation’s most afflicted: the city has been named No. 1 in the number of households owning video game systems. [...]

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Top 10 “Real-life” Games

February 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Asides

Got some time to waste? The Thinking Blog presents the Top 10 “real-life” games. Some are pretty clever, a couple not so much. Update: What a coincidence! Here are some more “live-action” video games.

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Drinking the podcast Kool-Aid

December 4th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Entertainment

Initially, when podcasts where starting to gain traction with geeks (almost always early-adopters) I ignored them. Why would I want to dedicate time to concentrate listening to someone prattle on about their opinions? I like to read other people’s opinions (blogs), but actually downloading someone’s “show” and spend free-time listening to it? Didn’t seem like [...]

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