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Extreme Shopping
Cooking Mama 3’s shopping game is uncannily like shopping in a Chinese supermarket. Mama sends you out to find 4 pieces of unwrapped, unrefridgerated meat, but as you search the store to fill your reusable carrier bag, you’ve got to avoid oddly familiar store characters — shouting shop assistants in pastel uniform aprons or a girl with a basket of squid, shellfish and other distinctly Yantai seafood — who’ll slow your shopping progress by trapping you into minigames. Higher levels add loose eggs, heads-on fish and mushrooms to your shopping list, and more people to the store. I keep trying for the elusive perfect score, since I imagine it’ll unlock a “Sunday In The Auchan” extreme challenge level. Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, chinese, Chinese life, cooking, Cooking Mama 3, games, nintendo DS, Raleigh, ThumbGods, Yantai
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What I’ve Been Up To
So, I’ve been working on some other projects, and now I’m going to recycle snips of those articles into a blog post, I mean, share what I’ve been working on! First, I recently reviewed the new Nintendo DS game Women’s … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged chinese, Facebook, Game Reviews, games, huh?, my other writing, new game, nintendo DS, Raleigh, random, reading, tech, TechCoquette, THQ, ThumbGods
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In Development
I’ve been focus testing some new games for Merscom in Chapel Hill… I was a bit nervous going in, but they didn’t seem to hold my recent Create-a-Mall review against me. Merscom is a casual games publisher, I’ve played mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture, Raleigh
Tagged Build-a-Lot, casual games, Chapel Hill, Choice Of Games, Create-a-Mall, dead romans, Eric, Game Reviews, games, Indie Game Mag, julio-claudians, Merscom, new game, Raleigh, ThumbGods
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Lost in Blue 2
I’ve been playing Lost in Blue 2 on the DS for a while now, and while I always love games about island survival, like MyTribe, Sims 2: Castaway, etc., there’s a lot of room for improvement in Lost in Blue. … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture
Tagged cooking, frustrations, Game Reviews, games, girls play that too?, Google, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, mail, MyTribe, nintendo DS, Sims, Sims 2, ThumbGods
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Playing Quidditch
“Stick? Can you play Quidditch for me?” I recently rented Harry Potter for the DS, and the Quidditch parts are just as annoying as they are in the books and movies. Unlike the books and movies, I can’t flip a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Raleigh
Tagged Books, education, Harry Potter, movies, nintendo DS, Raleigh, reading, Sims, Stick, ThumbGods, why I love Stick
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Create-a-Mall
I don’t think I’m quite the target audience for the new Create-A-Mall, since I don’t really like malls and shopping, but games often take a surprising premise to create a great game. A Nintendo game where you played a paperboy … Continue reading
Faerie Solitaire Review
I have a review of the new Faerie Solitaire up on ThumbGods. I’m a bit late posting this because every time I went to get another screenshot or check a fact, I got sucked into playing a few hands of … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture, My Other Writing
Tagged e3, Faerie Solitaire, Fashion Solitaire, Game Reviews, games, garden, indie games, my other writing, ThumbGods
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Ada Lovelace Day
Have you heard about Ada Lovelace Day? If you’re a girl who likes programming, who are your role models? Too few and far between, says UK-based freelance software consultant and tech blogger, Suw Charman-Anderson. Which is why she’s named March … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture, Raleigh
Tagged awesome, China, expats, gaming, girls play that too?, other blogs, Raleigh, tech, ThumbGods
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Momo’s Quest
The guys at Happy Nutz Studio quoted my Thumbgods review of their new game Momo’s Quest! I feel like a real reviewer now, and I can say Games Journalist without adding quite so many qualifiers. Maybe now I’ll feel like … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, milestones
Tagged e3, Game Reviews, games, Happy Nutz Studio, milestones, Momo's Quest, my other writing, new game, ThumbGods
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Nick Bounty
The Nick Bounty mysteries are flash games (or free downloads) from the independent Pinhead Games company. The first mystery is called A Case Of The Crabs and the second The Goat In The Gray Fedora, which gives you an idea … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture, Raleigh
Tagged A Case Of The Crabs, e3, election, Flash games, Game Reviews, games, gaming, Grace, mac, Momo's Quest, movies, my other writing, MyTribe, Nick Bounty, Pinhead Games, Raleigh, ThumbGods
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