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Oh, hi there. Didn’t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name’s Brian. I’m 24 years old and hail from Findlay, Ohio. I work at the local newspaper here as a copy editor, putting my four long years of college to actual use. Kind of. I think.

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What'd You Get? - Post E3 Edition

Brian Szabelski

2:04 AM on 06.22.2010

That image pretty much sums up what E3 was all about this year, doesn't it? Well, that, and this video:

So, now that we've gotten all of that E3 business out of the way, it's time for me to once again ask the community blogs about what you guys got this week or so in video game things. I'm sure some of you hit up the Steam sale EA was throwing this week (I did not) and some of you probably have gone out to put down preorders for games (I will be doing that once my move is complete for Gran Turismo 5's Collectors Edition, even though I do not currently have a PS3. Think of it as an incentive).

Or, if you're me, you decided to hop back onto Champions Online for a month to check out the updates you haven't touched since you put the game down six months ago when you capped out and got immediately bored of it. And now you're starting to get bored of it again because you're halfway through the new stuff.

Or maybe you're like me and finally bought Castle Crashers because you were waiting to see if it'd go on sale. It did, and the sale is ongoing for today, so if you don't have it, GO BUY IT ALREADY.

Unfortunately, that's it for me this time around in gaming stuff. Nothing quite coming over the horizon just yet, and if the Engineer update for Team Fortress 2 comes along, then ... well, I'll be busy for a bit.

So that's all I got this week, guys and gals. What'd all of you get?

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Winged Kirby

iPod touch and the first and second season of boondocks

Kyle MacGregor

I don't think I've bought any new games since I picked up No More Heroes 2, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and Dante's Inferno back in February. I guess I bought Bit.Trip RUNNER and Artstyle light trax with some spare wii credits I had lying around.

I've been hitting Goozex up a lot though. It's nice to see your hobby feed itself rather than just rob you blind. Goozex has mostly been feeding me my Wii Survival horror fix. Cursed Mountain, Bikini Zombie Slayers, and Dead Space Extraction.

Currently I'm playing Heavenly Sword and loving it.

Om Nom On Souls

quote from that guy after driving home from that speech "ocifer, I swear to stoned I'm not god
'

Om Nom On Souls

k that was lame, can someone text slap me please? I feel all filthy inside

Qalamari

God Hand and I made a deal with a friend to get the CE soundtrack record from Bioshock 2. It's kinda neat to hear the snap and pop of vintage vinyl playing something so thoroughly modern as a video game soundtrack.

Stevil

It's weird, but E3 got me replaying the franchises featured to see how far they've come. So I've busted out the originals like Driver, X-Com and F.E.A.R. I can't believe people thought F.E.A.R. looked amazing four years ago. Damn, it's dated badly.

mistic

bought a new t-shirt "I'd rather be gaming" in Singapore and picked up "Initial-D Extreme Stage" for PS3 ( with G25 support ) while there as well :-)

Guagloves

Mega Man Zero Collection. Woo.

Occams electric toothbrush

Radiata Stories, Ninja Blade, and Blood Will Tell during the Gamestop but two, get one free sale.

Nic128

FFIX on PSN. It's sooooo cute. :3

Kyle MacGregor

@Qualamari
I bought God Hand recently as well. I got through the first few levels before my roommate with the PS2 left. :/

ChillyBilly

A Bunch of Atlus DS games, the new Xbox slim and Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the Gamecube. All in all a good week.

Monodi

NOTHIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNG!!

Occams electric toothbrush

@Monodi: Motherfucker I just spit out my water at that. YOU OWE ME WATER.

Y0j1mb0

Nihon Tiger for Editor! Oh wait...

:)

Takeshi

I finally tracked down a copy of Yakuza 3. It's amazing!

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