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a new guild wars 2 video is up and explains and shows why it’s going to be really goooood! people will get to try it out for themselves for the first time next week at Gamescom! now back to fixing bugs…

celebrating five years since guild wars was released, there’s tons of info going out now on guild wars 2! you can check out the new ArenaNet blog with an especially great post by Mo on GW2′s design. also on the gw2 site there’s now an info page on the professions starting with the elementalist. check [...]

if you’ve encountered me at all in the last week either in person or online then you know i got into the Starcraft 2 beta!!@ with Starcraft still being my favorite game of all time i can’t help but be exploding with excitement over this! now i’m not going to write a big review or [...]

our second teaser trailer is up! this one details the playable races in gw2 and shows more beautiful in-game environments plus some glimpses of combat! i can’t wait for more to be revealed.

looks like this game is going to be pretty sweet!

recently i’ve been playing a lot of halo wars on the 360. it’s easily my favorite console rts to date – oh and before you explode screaming about how rts games should only be played with keyboards and mice let me just say console rts games have their place in this world too okay?! so [...]

time for another random updates post! i’ve been having lots of fun with web stuff like facebook, twitter, vimeo, and youtube. now anytime i want i can have the internet eat up hours of my life while i accomplish absolutely nothing! wow it’s just like an mmo. (speaking of which i’m level 65 now in [...]

hooray it’s a weekend of early access to the Guild Wars expansion! but with 150 new skills will i ever be competitive in PvP again?? at least with over 4 million people with the game there’s gotta be some i can still pummel… time for a lot of careful skill description reading and forum trolling. [...]

well the supreme commander beta ended this weekend and now i have to wait until the end of the month to play again.  i don’t know if i can make it…. yeah i got pretty addicted.    there are so many great new things supcom introduces to rts games.  i really like seeing the rate [...]

Guild Wars Nightfall is live!  I have to amend what I said before and recast my vote for game of the year now.   

this weekend is the guild wars nightfall world preview event!  anyone can download and play \o/

i finally got a 360 to play dead rising and it was totally worth it. i haven’t enjoyed a console game this much since resident evil code veronica on the dreamcast. here are some tips: always grab the katana and submachine gun on your way through the paradise plaza, mix orange juice and pie for [...]

ok e3 this year was awesome.  the biggest thing at the show was nintendo’s wii, but the lines to see it every day were crazy so i didn’t bother.  i did wait in line to see spore though and that was totally worth it.  will wright didn’t show too much more than he had previously [...]

it’s time for another e3!  for the last week i’ve been spending a lot of my time at home standing up to try and get my legs ready for all the e3 standing.  my plan was that by e3 my legs would be super strong, but i think it may have backfired!  my legs are [...]

factions is out!!!!  it’s already got my vote for best game of 2006