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Garden Party World
The new online kids’ game Garden Party is almost ready, and Victoria from Asylum was nice enough to send me an email introducing me to the beta. I checked out the game, which is billed as a safe, multiplayer world … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture, Raleigh
Tagged Asylum Entertainment, beta, British, game culture, Game Reviews, games, garden, Garden Party Game, Garden Party World, glasses, Hugo, mail, Raleigh, wee ones, Wizard 101
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Wizard 101 Pictures
Yesterday the folks at King’s Isle gave me permission to post screenshots from Wizard 101. I didn’t post yesterday, because when I logged on to get some nice screens, somehow I ended up fighting trolls instead of taking pictures. Anyway! … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture, New Jersey
Tagged beta, Game Reviews, Google, Harry Potter, King's Isle Games, kingsisle, mail, moving, new game, New Jersey, Stick, Wizard 101, World of WarCraft, WoW
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Wizard 101
I was predisposed to like the new Wizard 101 game. It’s not exactly a secret that I love Harry Potter, and the game promises to be a wizard school MMOPRG. The game is adorable from the first loading screen. They’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture
Tagged beta, casual games, Game Reviews, games, General, glasses, Harry Potter, King's Isle Games, kingsisle, new game, random, Stick, teaching, wee ones, Wizard 101
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Spin
It’s impossible now to sort out truth from lies from spin from judicious editing in Tibet. Depending on who’s talking, huge numbers of innocent Tibetans were killed by over-zealous Han police… or innocent Han bystanders were killed by a violent … Continue reading
Posted in New York City
Tagged beta, China, chinese, Chinese life, mail, New York City
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Fashion Solitaire
A couple few weeks ago, I got the chance to beta test a new casual game for Large Animal Games. The beta version of Fashion Solitaire looked like Barbie’s Magical Dream House had leaked all over it, but when I … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews
Tagged beta, Fashion Solitaire, game culture, Game Reviews, games, gaming, girls play that too?, Large Animal Games, LOST, mail, new game, Sims, Stick, superheroes, why's it gotta be pink?
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Night Elf Seeks Gnome for LTR
On a completely unrelated note, I just found out there’s a World Of WarCraft dating site, where WoW gamers can, er, hook up. I’m not making this up, it’s called World Of DateCraft. The site’s pretty new, with beta warning … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture
Tagged beta, dating, ThumbGods, WarCraft, World of WarCraft, WoW
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Spokeo Beta
I finally got onto a social networker before Kristin. I signed up with Spokeo, a new combination blog/RSS reader and profile network. Unlike MySpace, Spokeo seems to have users who are out of their teens. You don’t have to declare … Continue reading
Posted in New York City
Tagged beta, China, China blog, Chinese life, dating, greek, mail, movies, New York City, Rome
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UnFriendly Olympics
In China, you really can’t get away from the Friendlies. They’re on t-shirts, hats, sneakers, pins, backpacks, keychains, earrings and necklaces. They’ve been made into charms, toys and giant paper-mache effigies at the airport. Back when we had CCTV9 in … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing
Tagged Beijing welcomes you, beta, cctv, Chains, China, chinese, Chinese life, mac, Olympic countdown
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