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No More Heroes
Oh my god. Earlier this week, I picked up my preorder for the Wii action game No More Heroes. It was made by the same developer responsible for Killer7 and Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked. This game is just...wow, and...
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WHERE DO I BEGIN?!
Right, with the basics, of course. The game puts you in the role of Travis Touchdown, anime otaku and ( Read more... ) -
Zero Punctuation
For a while now, I've been watching Zero Punctuation, a weekly video review done by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, and they're actually pretty amusing. They are, for the most part, negative and tear into the game he's reviewing that week, such as in his most recent review of Silent Hill Origins, but he does give praise to games he feels that deserve it, ( Read more... ) -
The War of the Lions
I've been spending a good portion of my free time as of late playing the PSP Final Fantasy Tactics remake, The War of the Lions. The game, for the most part, is exactly the same as it was on the original Playstation over ten years ago, meaning that it still has a lot of elements that later SRPGs cleaned up for a smoother gameplay experience. Most ( Read more... ) -
Gone shoppin'
I went out to Northgate today and managed to take care of the majority of my Christmas shopping in one go. The shopping crowds were surprisingly light, but I guess there weren't that many people interested in Christmas shopping on a Sunday morning in a driving rainstorm. The only people I have left on my list are my brother (who is asking for a ( Read more... ) -
Four-day weekend! Woo!
Work has been absolute nuts lately. Deadlines are coming up, and that's putting some of the people in the office on edge. Everything should be okay, though. We've got things worked out, and despite some insane issues with a test station, the week went smoothly. Well, aside from the fact that the leader of the test department has decided to take ( Read more... ) -
Persona 3 is getting an anime series.
The video game Persona 3 is getting an anime series, though it's not really an adaptation. The series is apparently set ten years after the game, which most likely means that most if not all of the main characters will be brand new. This could either be really interesting or, really, really bad. It starts airing in Japan in January, so I imagine ( Read more... ) -
Death Alley
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NOVA goes supernova.
A few years ago, when I was still making attempts at getting a job teaching English in Japan, one of the companies I applied to was NOVA. They're one of the larger companies in the Japanese English teaching market, with schools in locations all over Japan, a large international roster of teachers and recruiting offices around the world ( Read more... ) -
Moving along.
I got a call earlier today from one of the companies I applied to last week. I'm scheduled for an interview with them tomorrow in the late afternoon downtown, and it sounds like they need people immediately (the company is in HIRE! mode, apparently). If that's the case, I hopefully won't have to wait too long until I get the yay or nay after the ( Read more... ) -
Gnome in space: A photographic journey.
The recent release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 in The Orange Box contains a number of achievements for the player to hunt down. The most difficult of these is an achievement entitled "Little Rocket Man." The objective is to pick up a garden gnome seen early on in the game and take him with you to the end, where you must then place it inside of a ( Read more... )