Aliens in the Desert

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Sam and Max are back!! Hoorah!

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Gaming at Large | No Comments »

Sam & Max are taking off on Game Tap as well as the Telltale site. I betcha can’t wait! Whooo!
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Friday Fun Picks will return this Friday

Monday, January 16th, 2006
Gaming at Large, Sharing is Caring | 1 Comment »

Got too caught up drinking Martinis and playing RuneQuest this past Friday to post Friday fun picks. But enjoy this while you are waiting:
Note: Video vanished when this stuff was imported from Blogger.  But I will find and re-post it!

If they build it..?

Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Gaming at Large, My Gaming Life, Visit my Brain | 3 Comments »

My husband’s family and their friends back East have - well, a decent amount of money.This pretty much assures that their kids have the tendency to get the ”hot new thing” for Christmas. Rock on kids!
But not this year. This year the ”hot new thing” was the XBox 360. But not a single kid got [...]

Jack Thompson is a cold-blooded zombie killer…

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Gaming at Large, MMORPGs, Politics | No Comments »

I was reading this article on Game Girl Advance when it hit me…”Hey, I saw Jack Thompson in Urban Dead! I think he was claiming that NecroTech was inspired by violent video games!”
Sure enough, Jack Thompson is bunked down in the same mall as I am, spouting his anti-video game philosphies and occasionally wandering out [...]