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Weekly Cosplay Post: Featuring a Interview with the Uber Hot Cosplayer You Guys Always Drool Over...
Virtualgirl | 11:06 AM on 02.01.2008 24 comments





Hey guys!

Its that time of week again! I just put up my new cosplay post over on Japanator. This week features cosplay from Final Fantasy X/X-2!

This week also features an interview with the Phenomenal cosplayer Yaya Han! Most of you guys know who she is. When I first started this cosplay feature over here in the cblogs, I posted pictures of hear weekly. Most of you drooled over her...as you should LOL. The feature and interview is so big that I had to break it down into two parts, so you will get to see her two weeks in a row!

Please head over and take a look, and let me know what you think! Feel free to make any suggestions for future topics!

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Beyond the Hype - An In-Depth Look at the Video Game Industry
Virtualgirl | 8:51 PM on 01.21.2008 23 comments




Once again, flame me if you like for posting an outside link, but that will not stop me from sharing my stuff with you! Many of you guys, especially from the forums, helped me get ideas and work through details of this project at the beginning of the fall semester when I first started! The result is after the link, my senior ethics project. It is a web based project titled Beyond the Hype, and the main focus is to provide parents with the resources they need (and for some reason can't find) to keep them from using restrictive video game legislation as a crutch to solve their problems. Please let me know what you think! Thanks again for all your help this semester! You guys rock!

Beyond the Hype

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Weekly Cosplay Post: Mario and Friends Edition!
Virtualgirl | 4:11 PM on 01.18.2008 6 comments




Hey guys!

Its that time of week again! I just put up my new cosplay post over on Japanator. This week features cosplay from the Mario franchise, thanks to a reader request!

Please head over and take a look, and let me know what you think! Feel free to make any suggestions for future topics! Next week I will have a post of epic proportions, with an interview from one of the most respected cosplayers out there! I think many of you will especially enjoy the pictures!

Hehehe...the anticipation...

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Where to Get the Best Geek Garb!
Virtualgirl | 1:07 AM on 01.15.2008 27 comments


Alright, it is worth trying this at least once. If I get flamed big time, I might stop or I might just kick the person in the nuts if I ever meet them.

YES, I am posting a blog with an outside link. The truth is that I can’t just repost an article I wrote for another site here, hence the linkage. It is uber hard for me to write something and not share it with my Dtoid family! I am sharing the article primarily because I know all you fellow geeks might be interested in some kick ass new clothes. Also, I threw a little Dtoid love in the SplitReason bit…lol

Let me know what you think!!!!

Where to Get the Best Geek Garb!

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I has a Website!!! www.meaganvanburkleo.com
Virtualgirl | 8:05 PM on 01.10.2008 58 comments


And NO...It is not one of those with a membership fee...Get your mind out of the gutter...



I just wanted to share something quick with you all because I got a TON of help from you dtoiders when I first started working on this. Note to self: Don’t work on something when you are sleep deprived and cranky and then put it up for critique on a video game website. Actually, all the responses I got on my first - extremely crappy – design helped me to get to what I have today! So thanks for all the help telling me my first design sucked (even though you all were WAY nicer than that).

I just launched meaganvanburkleo.com. For right now, it is really only my graphic design portfolio. Later, I will be adding a cosplay and modeling section, and possibly a few other areas. This was my first attempt at designing a fully functional website, so it was a learning experience at its worst. I had a friend program things and there still may be a few kinks. Example: for some reason on the Opera browser, you have to click everything twice to use a link. If you come across any other problems, please let me know!

So my portfolio has my graphic design work, sculpture, drawings and even photography on it. You should be able to check out all the nerdy projects I did while in college. Please let me know what you think! I will be posting a much bigger blog soon about my senior ethics project, which IS video game related…LOL

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Weekly Cosplay Post: Princess TuTu Edition
Virtualgirl | 7:47 PM on 01.10.2008 12 comments




Hey guys!

Its that time of week again! I just put up my new cosplay post over on Japanator . This week features cosplay from Princess TuTu. It is kinda a girly anime, but it has more skin for those of you who complained about last week...

Please head over and take a look, and let me know what you think! Feel free to make any suggestions for anything you would like to see in the next few weeks!

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My Short Bio: I work for Game Informer Online by day, cover comics for the Girls Entertainment Network by night, and parade around in costumes on the weekend. I also love Destructoid.

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