Wild Speculation about Pokémon and the 3DS
Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by Jason.
Nintendo announced this week that they are working on a new handheld gaming system tentatively called the 3DS. The name doesn’t mean it’s the third DS system, as that title would technically go to the DSi. Instead, it’s a mashup of “3D” and the DS brand. That’s right. Nintendo is launching a handheld gaming system with 3D capabilities. Whether this will be a successor to the DS or to the headache-inducing Virtual Boy is yet to be seen, but I’ll let other bloggers gossip about that for now. What I want to speculate about is Pokémon.
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Curling Explained
Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Matt.
This excerpt is longer than the actual explanation.
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The Picture of Morally Gray
Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Andrew.
Earlier today, I finished the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. I know it had taken me a long time to get around to; most literary people my age had found it’s pleasantries in high school but as long as we end up in the same place the path doesn’t matter. As I read the last line I thought to myself “I wonder, what if I had a portrait like that drawn of me?”
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Graph: how much of a game you actually play
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Matt.
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Nobuo Uematsu ain’t got nothin’ on me.
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by Tom.
Team Teamwork impressed me last year with The Ocarina of Rhyme, a mash-up album of the classic Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time soundtrack and some of hip hop’s most legendary hits. So when I heard that the Team dropped Vinyl Fantasy 7, featuring the extremely praised soundtrack from Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy VII, I mashed the download button. Reading the track-list made me grin: Jay-Z’s vengeful “Lucifer” mixed with the terrorist operation background music of the Mako Reactor. Clipse rapping over a Sephiroth track? MF DOOM on… anything? Yes, please.
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