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Got my awesome backer rewards for Choice:Texas! #blog

Got my awesome backer rewards for Choice:Texas! #blog

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Austin Airport for SxSW

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Not Quite Legendary ‘Legend Online’

Legend Online is the second game I’ve reviewed over at GiN. My editor, Marie, assigned me the game and also sent me a very generous credit in Diamonds, the game’s premium currency, from the game’s publicist.  But when I looked … Continue reading

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Go Miss Your Flight, Because You Need A Time Machine

There’s kind of a trend for writing and talking about how great events used to be, because the only thing cooler than being at an event is being in the middle of things while being unimpressed by it. Like being … Continue reading

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Book Review: ‘The Wives of Los Alamos’

The Wives of Los Alamos is out today, and I’ve reviewed it over at Yahoo. TaraShea Nesbit’s novel The Wives of Los Alamos is told in first-person plural, and yet it never seems like an experiment in a creative writing … Continue reading

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Winter Garden #blog

Winter Garden #blog

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Revisited Game Review: Women’s Murder Club

Originally written for ThumbGods, a coupe years ago, but I recently dug out my DS for visiting some old favorites. James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club has been a successful series of novels, a TV show and a series of casual mystery PC games before … Continue reading

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Failing The Turing Test

  A copy-paste of my chat with Delta Airlines It went on like that for a while, while I tried to handle my frustration by imagining the conversation as a moment in text-based Adventure, trying endless variations on Open door … Continue reading

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Games & Capitalism

IndieCade was surrounded with snow-related disasters, but one of the nice effects of that is Paolo Pedercini’s (from Molleindustria) talk was given remotely, and it’s available to watch online here: Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism from paolo pedercini on … Continue reading

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The Wife, The Maid, and The Mistress

The lives of three women collide in this pulpy 1930’s reimagining of the historical disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater. Justice Joseph Crater disappeared in 1930, leaving behind debts, bribery allegations, and powerful “friends” in high and low places, an angry … Continue reading

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