July 2005 - Posts
This is our FIFTEENTH entry in the Legends series and since I never thought I would write fifteen of anything. To celebrate I wanted to make this entry special, so I have turned to the one game I have avoided writing about since day one of Nomad Gamer.
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Wow. I know you are tired of reading about it, and I'm tired of posting about it -- but could this get any crazier? Apparently, we have solved all of our country's problems (unemployment, terrorism, the flat tax, social security, etc.) and we
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The ESRB has bent to the will of "Hellory", rescinded the "Mature" (M) rating and slapped an "Adults Only" (AO) on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Take Two has stopped production and Target, Best Buy and Wal-Mart have pulled
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James Doohan has passed away at 85. He was a man's man, shot 6 times on Juno beach during the D-Day invasion. He will be missed. Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures and startrek.com .
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Apparently Post Soviet Russia is good for gaming. Art.Lebedev Studios based in Moscow has revolutionized the Keyboard. Thank god we didn't bomb each other out of existence or this beautiful piece of industrial design wouldn't have seen the light
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It is a rarity when a married mother of two has such an effect on gaming that they change the industry – but in 1983 one Mom did just that. As co-founder of a fledgling gaming company she created a game that would become a gaming sensation. The
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Really, I have tried to keep quiet about this and move along but this whole "Hot Coffee" thing really has me steamed (pun intended). Here we have a legitimate company that has done an investigation to determine where the said "game features"
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Not that I would abandon Cryptic's City of Heroes any tiime soon for this but it seems like the race is on to fill the Super Hero genre of MMOs . Microsoft has obtained the exclusive rights to develop and publish massively multiplayer online games
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SlashDot has a interesting article about Battlefield 2. Apparently, the new patch that was supposed to fix all their gamers woes is so bad their official support solution is to completely uninstall Battlefield 2 and reinstall the original code if they
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Voice Actors of the world unite! (as long as you unite behind the union and do as you are told of course) Kotaku updates us on what is going on with the voice actor union attempts to oversell their product, complete with a letter from a disgruntled union
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I linked to a Toms Hardware article awhile back, and I even did it a 2nd time , because it was so apt. Well, that article, and the particular quote I have in mind gets the hat trick here at Nomad Gamer, because video games in Japan are slumping but adults
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Are at Best Buy. Well, this report says Amazon, but that's before you factor in shipping. Newegg is not mentioned, and I'd be willing to bet they'd smoke everyone on the pre-shipping number. Best Buy, though, was best for traditional brick
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In watching the horrid Season 4 of 24 this past year, I kept seeing a commercial, where all I could think was, who would buy that? THAT being the official soundtrack of 24 . This would be the intense instrumental music that would presumably be playing
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