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Latest blog posts from PixelVixen707

That Voice
“Beats the fuck out of cleaning toilets.” That’s the first line of Everybody Dies. It’s a good lede - strong, but it doesn’t stop you. The narrator keeps talking. I smoke a butt with him. I hear a few scenes from his life story. I want to hear more. Everybody Dies is a work of...
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Published 18 hours ago

Merry Thanksgiving To All
Thanksgiving’s upon us - I’m filling that in for all you Aussie readers out (down?) there - and I’m about to be overtaken by my chef and hostess duties and my third beer. I swore I would log off for the next couple days, but before I go, I had to stop and give thanks. Thanks for my family,...
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Published 6 days ago

Gears of War 2: War’s Human Cost, to the Penny
If you just went by the brainy games blogosphere, you’d think Gears of War 2 had never come out. It’s already moved units and thrilled shooter die-hards worldwide this month, but outside of The New Yorker and now Mitch Krpata, noone has had much to say about it. I spent a chunk of the...
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Published a week ago

Playboy Gamer Girls: Would They Really Go Topless?
Something’s been nagging me. Over at Kotaku, I read about Playboy’s upcoming “Girls of Gaming” feature, an annual tradition that features topless pin-ups of girls from games you’ve likely never played. The images are custom-made and licensed by the game companies, eager for publicity...
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Published a week ago

Who What Where How Wii?
Dear readers, I don’t often ask you for help, but I need you on this one. The other day I found something strange crammed in the back of our apartment, next to the kitty litter boxes and the stack of newspapers we forgot to recycle. It was a small white box about the size of a paperback, with...
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Published a week ago

Left 4 Dead is PUNK AS FUCK
If you’ve ever skidded near the hardcore scene, you’ve probably met the ringleaders who keep the whole thing together - the tattooed, self-made intellectuals who can keep a scene together, bring the bands to town and line up the venue, the couches and the eggs the next morning, and read and...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Mirror’s Edge: Run Rachael Run
Notes on Mirror’s Edge, which I can’t put down. | The star of Mirror’s Edge is a woman, named Faith. Senior producer Owen O’Brien told Forbes that unlike so many of our comely, shapely or chest-blessed game heroines, Faith “wasn’t trading on the fact that she was a sexual being.”...
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Published 2 weeks ago

TwitterCrit
Let’s pick at the carcass of the standardized game review. It was born in the dry, cash-corrupt dirt of the enthusiastic press. It grew into a bloated, overdetailed and understimulating monster via the web press, flirted with a patronizing respectability in the mainstream media, and lights...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Veteran’s Play
Let me preface this with a salute: to all the veterans or people with family who have served, you have our respect and love. I hope someone else raked the leaves for you today. A wave of chagrin has hit the games press, all over a silly, harmless little thing: war. Yes, some people have started...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Inside the Beetle
Last week didn’t go as planned. No, that’s an understatement. Last week didn’t go like anything I’d ever planned. I don’t like to get personal on this blog. It’s not why you came here. But this was a bad week. I was on a run here, writing my silly, snarky posts about the latest...
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Published 3 weeks ago