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Addiction: The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. I started working on a similar post about 5 years ago, in 2006, as I started to play Guildwars. This game intrigued me, as it was a complete change for every MMOG I ever played.
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Two weeks ago, I told my friends that we were living in a strange time: “We had two good games based on franchises, Batman and Transformers”. He agreed. There we have it, Transformers, War for Cybertron is pretty amazing. The first level just blew me away. The first rule of
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For years, I’ve been a Windows user. However, since I’m doing a lot of iPhone development, I’m working a lot more on MacOs X. I’ve got to admit, I’m impressed by the operating system. Today, as I was preparing a Powerpoint presentation, I discovered a
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Just finished a good play session of Left4Dead 2 and let me tell you, it’s very difficult. Even that sentence seems an understatement. For those new to the world of Left4Dead, an appropriate description is zombie apocalypse. You play one of four survivors, using a wide variety of weapons,
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I love my iPod Touch. I carry the little thing everywhere. The synchronization between its application and google apps (mail, contacts, calendar, etc.) is seamless, which is a huge bonus for me. I also get to carry all my music and pictures. I’m even writting this post using the
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I blame my thesis work, which is sucking up all my free time. But I do find some time to turn on a console or two, enjoying my Ps3 or my XBox 360. On the Ps3, I’m playing Assassin’s
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Back in September 2008, I wrote about a new company called Good Old Games [http://www.gog.com]. They sell old games, DRM free, which is especially cool. This has become a very lucrative business. Last year, GoG started with only a few games, two of which were Freespace and
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Have you ever heard about iPod envy? I’ve heard it’s when you buy a second iPod, the first gets envious. I bought my first iPod about three years ago, a 2GB nano to replace my dying rio player. About a year after, I upgraded to a 80gig iPod
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Last week, I received a coupon from TigerDirect [http://www.tigerdirect.ca]. I could save 20$ of my next 200$ purchase. The catch, the coupon expired in less than two days. I also received a similar deal from Dell [http://www.dell.ca]. I could get great savings on computers,
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In North America, December 26th is considered Boxing Day. The day after Christmas, it features an insane amount of sales, many store clearing their Christmas stock at below cost. It’s a particularly crazy day to visit shipping mall, and the only day were you will see checkout queues online.
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> Deep within the US Army exists elite force deployed for precise tactical operations. These are the men who are totally not the guys I was talking about. Bad Company’s marketing campaign was a huge success for me. Their light-hearted humorous shorts peeked my interest, as well as gaining high
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A couple of month ago, I caved in and bought an Xbox 360. There are several games I wanted to play on that platform and although most of them eventually become available for the PC (Halo, Mass Effect, Gears, etc), I wanted to play them on their original platform. Now,
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A couple of weeks ago, I learned that I was going to be part of the Good Old Games (GOG) [http://www.gog.com] beta. Good Old Games is a company dedicated to offering classic PC games at a cheap price, DRM free. Think of it as Steam, but without
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Last month, after playing a lot of Guildwars, I was in the mood for something different. So I fired up my copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 [http://store.steampowered.com/app/13230/] and played a whole lot of Onslaught online. I was surprise to see that there are still a
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When I played Ragnarok Online, I was surprised by the quality of the online community. After playing Diablo II (which has its fair share of idiots), it’s understandable to be disoriented by a community where people help each other, and with very little swearing. Given that Ragnarok Online requires
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When GuildWars was introduced, it broke the traditional MMO mold by offering a massively multi player experience without any subscriptions. ArenaNet, the developers behind the Guildwars phenomena, announced that they would release a new expansion to the game every 6 months, starting a year after the initial release of the