Posts By Randy D.

Some children seek to emulate their parents, while others choose to strike their own path in the world. Poor Jack, however, has a problem. If he mimics his parents, that …
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When Sony entered the handheld console arena in 2005 with PlayStation Portable, it borrowed a page from the playbook of the acknowledged handheld champ, Nintendo, and debuted with a puzzle …
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“Well, it took a while to beat the kraken, but we did it. Let’s see what’s on TV before we start another session.”

<turns on local TV after spirited late-night …
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Some say that love is the universal language, the one everyone understands. Others say that language is music. The learned set has a valid argument that claims that if/when we …
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Xbox’s game subscription service, Game Pass, was merely six months old when it got a huge shot in the arm. It already was a repository of more than 100 games …
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The role-playing video game didn’t really come into vogue in North America until console and gaming development shifted from the United States to Japan in the mid-1980s. Most gamers from …
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Space: the final frontier. Most space-based science fiction deals with the desire to explore the unknown. However, a handful of works feature more reluctant space explorers. For example, the first …
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At its height, the Roman Empire was one of the most powerful civilizations the world had known up to that time. The Roman influence spread across Europe, frequently at the …
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I’m about to date myself here. I vividly remember seeing “Star Wars” in theatres as a child. The first one. It’s first release. “Han Shot First” and all that. I …
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Arcades and consoles in the latter 1980s and early 1990s were filled with games that may have featured different characters, but the gist of the game was exactly the same …
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