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    Bizness

    03/16/2011 // No Comments »

    For when pulling a business card out of your back pocket (pre-warmed, right?) isn’t hot enough, there’s these:

    Trust Rey to be the guy to find ‘em. Retailing for about $12, you’ll likely be looking to Japan for early adoption.

    Posted in Gaming, Retro

    Holiday Fun Time

    01/04/2011 // No Comments »

    World of Goo for iPad: This game was meant for touch controls! The iPad format is the best yet if only for that reason. Portable, easy to curl up with, and seriously simple goo management. Some performance issues – crashes occasionally, noticed a drop in frame rate -do bring its score down to a 4/5, but they’re decidedly reparable problems.

    Top Gear (SNES): A classic racer that introduced the revolutionary night racing – with headlamps! – it has held up reasonably well. Played on a Retro Duo system, remember to hit “Select” to bring up those all important customization features: Name entry, and car selection. The sleek white car is recommended for its low fuel consumption that will get you through the longer races, and avoid the Pit.

    After Top Gear, before the other Top Gear, there was Top Gear!

    The Sly Collection (PS3): Perfect for the Trophy Whore, there are multiple Platinums to get out of this one – and none of them difficult. Sly 1 features the classic comic style in very segmented form, while 2 broadens to more “open world” stages that give the merest of inFAMOUS hints. Clue bottles, shard prototypes?? In addition to the 3 Sly titles there are mini-games – also with Trophies. More nostalgia, perhaps, but decidedly classic!

    Civilization 5 (PC/Bootcamp!): With a huge update in December that affects AI, a tinge of Diplomacy and adds two new Civilizations for a Scenario, Civ 5 was all too good at making the vacation hours disappear. While the benefits of “Public Declaration of Friendship” are a bit murky, and Napoleon is still a cheese-eating traitor, the sharper AI is enough to ease the sting of the Civ 4 to Civ 5 transition (yep, still missing all that micro!).

    Posted in iPad, PC, PS3, Retro