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Something else I haven’t used much lately

Something else that I haven’t used much lately that is being cut from the budget: World Of Warcraft. Given that I haven’t logged in this month yet, I’m not particularly surprised. The last time my 6 month subscription came up this last spring I was sort of getting back into the swing of things. That was pretty short lived, though I did enjoy the bits of Zul’Gurub that I had a chance to see with my old guild.

While I understand for a lot of people that once you get your character to level 60 there is almost a whole new and different game to play, it’s just not a game that I like playing.

We’ll see what happens when the expansion is released this fall. That might finally be enough time and new material to make it interesting enough to go back.

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Click Click

The Escapist has a really fascinating article this week that posits the notion that the adventure game, which I and so many other people morn the lack of good modern versions, has simply evolved into something else entirely.

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Fun with a doofus

The newest game on XBox Live Arcade is a hoot of a platform puzzler called Cloning Clyde. The humor can sometimes be somewhat low brow, but the creativity of the puzzles and the incredibly fun environments and puzzles made me loose track of 2 hours last night and register it essentially instantly. I can’t wait to try it in multi-player.

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Sugar and Spice

This week’s issue of The Escapist is all about women and gaming. Some interesting reading in there. Anyone with more of a feminist bent want to do any commentary? I thought the article about the possible myth of male focus in gaming to be especially interesting.

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To play is divine

Joystiq is reporting that Kings Quest III has been updated and re-released. I came to the King’s Quest games remarkably late in the series so I’m looking forward to playing through this.

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A phone tree of twisty passages, all alike?

An enterprising person has set up a text-to-speech engine with his Asterisk PBX setup and allows a caller to interact with the classic Zork text adventure game.

Pure genius!

Maybe I can get Leather Goddesses of Phobos setup…

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Gotta smash them all

PopCap Games has a new game out: Hammer Heads. I saw the announcement in their regular newsletter and gave it a try. It’s basically a hideously well done whack-a-mole variant that is good enough that I have already registered my copy.

Damn crack pushers!

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From ship to shore

I heard the announcement this week that the people behind Puzzle Pirates are working on a new game called Bang! Howdy. I really enjoyed Puzzle Pirates for awhile and will be signing up for the beta and hopefully playing some this weekend.

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Finding things in odd places…

I read a fair number of different blogs and news sources and recently added a whole slew of feeds when I recently bought an XBox 360. This morning, I read on one of those news feeds news about the company I work for: DK is the New Home for BradyGames.

Unfortunately I’ve never seen software up in the employee “bookstore”.

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WoW.com -> Info -> Under Development

OMG – The best development change that I’ve heard of yet for WoW: Keyrings!

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