Hello friends! So now that ScottyG has stepped down, the Recaps team is looking for someone new to take his place as a regular recapper on Thursdays. Any takers? If you're interested, send a message to Conrad Zimmerman or Funktastic, or any of the other recappers and we'll relay the message.

In other news, I was inspired to purchase PixelJunk Eden on the PSN (or... whatever it's being called now) after reading Jordan's review of the PC port of the game. I somehow missed hearing about this series, other than hearing the words PixelJunk being thrown around but not knowing what that meant, so I'm excited to give the series a try. I'm really enjoying Eden a lot! It's quite relaxing to play; jumping around collecting pollen and blooming plants is very soothing. The music is kind of odd, and sort of reminds me of a weird nightclub or something at times, but I can dig it. And then of course, the art design is very simplistic and visually pleasing, so that's nice.



I plan to play through the rest of the series once I earn some more money, although I'll probably skip PixelJunk Racers since I'm not really into racing games. Have you guys played these games? Which one do you think I should try next?

Anyway, it's pretty late and there are a ton of blogs to recap, so let's just get this thing started, shall we?

* - A PSA of sorts for Rayman Origins. If you enjoy smiling and happiness, then there is no reason you shouldn't enjoy this game. VenusInFurs is not fond of smiles or happiness, you see (just kidding, Venus!)

* - jarnww thinks Jet Force Gemini is one of the most badass games ever!

M - Nihil is super excited about The Secret World, and just wants it to not suck

M - BabelsTower finally reached that "I did it!" moment in League of Legends

M - supamunky rocks the Bronze League in Starcraft 2

S - A well-written article about the original Legend of Zelda, and werebear's first article in a series on Zelda games

S - werebear has decided not to do an article on Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, because it kicked his ass relentlessly

A - gunsage advises us not to worry too much about shitty sequels; you can always go back to the classics that you loved

A - Fenrir151 thinks about reviews and how they might affect a customer's purchase

A - utti lost her husband and child in Fable 3, oh no!

A - Double Fine's Kickstarter success: Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

A - The Double Fine Kickstarter event has left a very bitter taste in sheppy's mouth

P - Pocketoid Episode 14 - DSiware reviews, Sakura Samurai, and PSVita junk

C - Want to win a copy of Toki Tori? Answer PK493's riddle!

I - Say hello to NovaSethyr! He'd like to know what your favorite video game is

I - Say hello to werebear! He plans to follow in Magnalon's footsteps and play every Zelda game this year

I - lightbulbthief says hello and hopes to promote his upcoming indie game, although the introduction could use some work

F - Friday Night Fights on the PS3

F - Friday Night Fights on the 360

C - Ev777 wants to make stuff for the Dtoid community

R - A "review" of sorts for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

N - Ekas reminds us that The Last Story is releasing in Europe soon

N - nabokovfan87 would like you to support a survival horror FPS game called Abandoned on Kickstarter

T - Moblin88 was not very impressed with the demo for Crush 3D on the 3DS, but spent more time with the Cooking Mama demo than he expected

T - Yukichin has discovered some annoyances pertaining to DLC while playing Final Fantasy XIII-2

T - crackedbat gives his thoughts on Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, and has some suggestions for making Golden Sun 4 a better game

T - TroyFullbuster thinks tactical RPGs are much better suited for handhelds than consoles

M - stevesan is flipping his shit over the Quake 2 soundtrack

? - I don't really know, haha

L - Swishiee created some Bill Paxton Valentines for us. Lovely

R - Sir Tobbii isn't feeling well, so he's putting his Resident Evil posts on hold for a bit

V - burningsoup gives us his thoughts on Double Fine, in video format

V - TrevHead wants story-based games to be more like The Last of the Mohicans

C - I will milk whenever I goddamn please

C - An analysis of Uncharted 3, unfortunately formatted as a wall of text

C - A rundown of the 2012 DICE keynotes, also unfortunately formatted as a wall of text

C - Random notes and observations about WWE RAW

C - Jared Ramone Burks is taking a game development class and gives us his thoughts about it

F - Paperphony

F - Essay spam

F - Printing spam

F - Motorbike game spam?

F - Ranting about life and Blizzard... the anger is very off-putting

F - Nope.



- bbain

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