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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.

For those of you who might recognize me from elsewhere, I work as Assistant Gaming Editor over at Blogcritics Gaming and as Features Editor over at Tomopop. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it because I get to do a lot of cool shit with a lot of cool people.

I've been gaming since the relatively young age of around 3 and I've played plenty of games, both good and bad. I'm continuously expanding my gaming collection, which has become more of an archive in recent years as I'm focusing on collecting older, less well-known titles. You'd honestly be surprised on what people are missing out on in bargain bins...



Other than gaming, I love anime, manga, sports, movies, TV, and a whole lot more. I also happen to have something of a legendary love for Cammy, to the point that I am the site's unofficial official Cammy fanboy. And yes, I do play as her in Street Fighter and do so quite well, too.

Also, I am Chad Concelmo's B.F.F., my prize for coming in first in The Great Retro Quiz .18 - ActRaiser. Accept no substitutes. Not even Aerox.

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What'd You Get? - Playing God Edition
Brian Szabelski | 9:23 PM on 06.29.2009 16 comments




I like building stuff or games you get to play God in. Except for some reason, I can't play The Sims for more than like 20 minutes before getting bored. Weird. But these games are what's behind the reasoning for this week's What'd You Get?, the Dtoid Community Blog feature where you, the community member, get to mention all the cool things you got without having to make a C-Blog or listen to "PIX OR ITS FAKE." We'll trust you, don't worry.

This week, I got in on the Cities XL beta, but that's all I can tell you. I'm under a nice NDA, which means no talking about the game's contents. That will come when my NDA eventually expires. Oh, and I've been playing a few Flash games for a feature idea I might be doing soon. Which reminds me: I need to get back to feature writing.

Anyways, that's all for me. Just a beta and a reminder I haven't done a feature in months. What'd all of you get?



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Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 21:47
Daxelman
I caved and bought FF7 of of PSN.

...Ehhh...
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 22:05
Monodi
Mu Online and a Gurren Lagann pin.

That is weaboo convention in Saturday for you.
Tdiddy9182's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 22:20
Tdiddy9182
Yeah, I caved and baught FF7 on the PSN as well
HeavyD's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 22:58
HeavyD
Parodius Portable, Garou, and Zeno Clash. Exceellent!
ChillyBilly's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 23:10
ChillyBilly
I picked up the Point Lookout expansion for Fallout 3. I also got in to the AION beta, if that counts.
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 23:27
Guagloves
Red Faction Guerilla and Advance Wars Days of Ruin
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/29/2009 23:49
Darren Nakamura
Nothing, but I'll probably grab Worms 2: Armageddon this week.
Chocobo Knight's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 00:08
Chocobo Knight
I've started playing Free Realms. God help me... T_T
Ckarasu's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 00:55
Ckarasu
I got Devil Survivor just recently. It's pretty good, so far.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 03:01
Kyousuke Nanbu
Persona 3 FES
Resident Evil Remake

And I purchased Mario RPG and Mario 64 on the VC a few hours ago.
lastSKYsamurai's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 05:06
lastSKYsamurai
Hmmm. Well I bought Ninety Nine Nights (N3) on Ebay for cheap. I'm sure it's not a very good game, but I remember playing the demo & that's the only reason I decided to get it when I saw it.

Also, a couple of nights ago I ordered The Saitek Aviator Flight Stick for the 360. & The Blazblue Fighting Stick also for the 360. I eagerly await both. :)
Elsa's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 09:14
Elsa
Nothing... still playing Warhawk, Killzone 2 and Sacred 2 (and a bit of the Uncharted 2 beta which is now over)... though I've been eyeing a couple of upcoming PSN games.
Sean Carey's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 09:53
Sean Carey
Doesn't Trine come out on PSN today?

If so, I'll probably be picking that up to play once I'm done w/Overlord II.
SaintRising's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 10:19
SaintRising
Two weeks back I got Bully Scholarship Edition. Haven't gotten through it yet, though. Still addicted to the Sims 3.
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 12:16
Zippyduda
I picked up Deus Ex, SSX 3, Enter The Matrix and the Metal Slug Anthology (Metal Slug 1,2,X,3,4,5,6 (pre build) and 6. All for £10 ($16)) :D:D:D

Also, I got a beta code as well :) Still need to try it out, been busy though. Is it as good as I thought it would be Nihon? Out of 10?

Also I did not realise PS3's played PS1 games anyway until a few months ago so I will be playing my FF7 on there soooon :) (After I've stopped playing Bishock).
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/30/2009 12:28
Char Aznable
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. It's as fun as a motherfucker (which are, purportedly, quite fun).
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