PizelJunk Monsters has been given rave reviews. It’s a castle defense game where you setup turrets to deal with different types of enemies, all of which come in waves. You choose where to place the turrets and can upgrade them. All of this effort goes toward protecting your younglings.
I decided to get it when it [...]

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There was a big fracas over the weekend over at Kotaku over an article regarding a possible update to the Xbox 360. It began when a prank was discussed on the CAG podcast, which was to try and create a fake rumor that the gaming “journalism” blogs would pick up and carry.
Kotaku happened to be [...]

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The Discovery Project Earth show that set out to see what could be done to try and mitigate global warming isn’t very green. One of the main points made throughout the series is that the best way to solve the climate problem is to change the way we live, and not create so much pollution. [...]

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The fact that Microsoft doesn’t know much about hardware isn’t that much of a shock to Xbox 360 owners, as a high number of them (including myself) have run into the Red Ring of Death. What is a surprise is that Microsoft knew about these problems before launching the console, and still decided to proceed [...]

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