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Oh, and damn, is BioShock spooky. Brilliant stuff, though — who’d have thought of basing a video game on an Ayn Rand novel.
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Category Archives: Gaming
Marmot’s Open Thread #31
December 29, 2007 – 12:57 pm
COD 4 — Two Thumbs Up!
December 11, 2007 – 4:55 pm
It’s not quite as visceral an experience as Gears of War (vrum, vrum!), and the single player campaign is a bit short, but aside from that, Call of Duty 4 absolutely rocks.
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Xbox Returns
December 6, 2007 – 12:21 pm
It took a month, but I finally got my Xbox 360 back last night. Or more accurately, I got a replacement Xbox last night. Which means I’ll be picking up Call of Duty 4 this weekend. I’m thinking Bioshock might be in the cards, too.
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Game Recommendation: World in Conflict
November 15, 2007 – 9:07 am
Picked up Sierra’s World in Conflict this weekend. Very righteous it is, but it may prompt me to upgrade my computer hardware.
IKKFL midseason report (new player needed)
October 29, 2007 – 12:36 pm
The IKKFL (the semi-official fantasy football league of the Marmot’s Hole) is halfway done. The current standings are below the fold.
We need a replacement player ASAP. If you take the challenge, you will have a 4-4 team which includes Randy Moss, Plaxico Burress and Travis Henry. They have suffered through two weeks of absentee management [...]
Smoking Halo
August 28, 2007 – 4:20 pm
Memo to the team at Microsoft: As you promote your new game Halo 3 in Korea, try not to have the “Master Chief” character be photographed buying cigarettes at a GS-25. It does not set a good example for the kiddies.
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Players needed for Korean fantasy football league
August 13, 2007 – 1:46 pm
The Insular Korean Kluster (fantasy) Football League needs two new owners to take over teams. It is a keeper league and the keeper deadline is this Wednesday, so act fast if you want a spot.
Both of the available teams are led by solid RBs (Shaun Alexander and Steven Jackson) so you will have a good [...]
건바운드 Story
July 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
건바운드 or “Gunbound” is a South Korean multiplayer online game that is so popular that one of the top Gunbound gamers in the world (Brazil) was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for his password. Apparently, the guy refused to give out the “sekret” word and was released five hours later, whereupon the four assailants were [...]
ROK Navy to Form Pro Gaming Team
July 2, 2007 – 8:15 pm
Refusing to allow the Air Force to hog all the glory, the ROK Navy announced it will form a pro gaming team. [Chosun Ilbo]
Tom Clancy’s EndWar
May 26, 2007 – 12:03 am
Tom Clancy’s last couple of novels may have left something to be desired (well, at least The Bear and the Dragon sucked), but damn, Ubisoft has been producing some kickass games, and this looks flat-out awesome [IGN]. Makes me want to pick up a PS3.
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Starcraft II
May 21, 2007 – 4:19 pm
Starcraft II is coming [The Age]. Not that I’ll be playing it. BTW, I picked up Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars this weekend, and I must say, it seems pretty righteous.
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GTA IV
April 1, 2007 – 6:19 pm
IGN has the trailer to the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360. This thing is going to kick ass.
Get your nation(sim) here
March 27, 2007 – 4:11 pm
I have decided to lay off PC games this semester. To fill the gap I have joined Superpower Classic, a forum-based nationsim.
To play, you set a budget, manage relations with your neighbors and (sometimes) send your boys off to war. You can read the game’s new player guide for more information. I think the next round starts in [...]
A PC is NOT a gaming machine?
March 21, 2007 – 4:29 pm
A reason to switch to Ubuntu [Wikipedia]—because if you’re that big of a gamer, you shouldn’t be playing on a PC anyway [Chimney blog]. Buy an Xbox360 or PS3 instead. Personally, I don’t know. As much as I love my Xbox360, few things beat Battlefield 2 [IGN] or Battlefield 2142 [IGN] on [...]
. . . and Now A Subliminal Message
March 16, 2007 – 12:18 pm
A certain Korean company has developed a way to discourage kids from playing computer games too long by the use of a subliminal message that would discourage excessive play.
This reminds me of the 1974 ban, in America, on subliminal messages in broadcasting that was enacted by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), since they felt [...]
War Rock goes global
March 4, 2007 – 7:08 pm
The Korean BF2-clone War Rock has gone global—check it out.
When Hanryu meets Xbox360
January 30, 2007 – 1:49 am
If Wayne, the main characher of Capcom’s well-reviewed Xbox 360 game “Lost Planet” looks familiar, he should—he’s modeled on Korean heartthrob and “Korean Wave” star Lee Byung-hun.
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All hail the might of Scott Silvers!
January 29, 2007 – 6:15 pm
With the Super Bowl coming up, this seems like a good time to officially announce the winner of the first season of the Insular Korean Cluster Football League.
This year’s winner was the BuPyeong Silverbacks, managed by Scott Silvers. They Defeated the Itaewon Sweetlife to win Kimchi Bowl I and take home the Hines Ward Trophy.
The [...]
First It Was Farming Rice and Now It Is Gold
January 11, 2007 – 9:30 pm
Now with the threat of a housing price collapse, South Korean gamers now need to worry that their online in-game transactions may become illegal. Some players of online games engage in a bit of “gold farming”, where they acquire items that have value within a virtual game world and resale such for real-world money. There [...]
No plan to release PS3 in Korea… yet
December 5, 2006 – 12:06 pm
Seems Sony has yet to set plans to release the PS3 in Korea. Despite Korea, a bastion of PC gaming, being generally hostile to console games, the XBox 360 seems to be doing OK.
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