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Surprises Hidden in the Eternal Darkness

1:13 PM on 05.13.2013 // knutaf's blog

It was long ago, feels like a dream, when did me a service only a true father can: he lent me his very own physical copy of more

Naked inflatable man: Dtoid sent me stuff!

2:22 PM on 04.26.2013 // Wrenchfarm's blog

About two months ago I got a message from Andy asking me what shirt size I wear, that Niero wanted to send me a little something for all the "badass blogging" I've done. Cool! A free Dtoid shir... more

Violence: I want to have control

7:23 PM on 04.17.2013 // Wrenchfarm's blog

Before last weekend, I could honestly say that I've never walked out on a movie. That was before I went to see . I'm not going to sugar coat it or try to defend my delicate ego, I couldn't h... more

Reborn for a new generation: Games that need a next-gen reboot

4:39 PM on 03.18.2013 // Wrenchfarm's blog

In the new generation of consoles, reboots and reinventions are in, and sequel numbers have become passe. Chopping off the number at the end of the title and adding a colon or subtitled to a ... more

Asymmetrical Balance: The Spider and the Scout

7:46 AM on 01.22.2013 // Wrenchfarm's blog

The Spider is the most recent addition to the garage in . And people hate it. "It's useless. It sucks. Every other mech is better, pls buff it noa." Balance is a tricky thing in multiplaye... more

Wrenchfarm's Best of 2012

5:31 PM on 01.10.2013 // Wrenchfarm's blog

It's easy to be a snob. It's easy to write 2012 off as a dud year in gaming. I mean hey, the consoles are winding down, releases are drying up, the Wii U landed rocky, and this was another year w... more

The meaning of N.I.C

9:16 PM on 12.28.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

So I wanted to participate in this latest meme sweeping the toid. Turns out my name is associated with some racially charged slang that I just can't live up too. I'll just be sadly walking down ... more

Stompy Stompy: A new players introduction to Mechwarrior Online

8:25 AM on 12.17.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

is a game where 16 giant stompy robots fight each other to the death with laser guns and cannons that fire shells the size of an average family sedan. If that image tickles your heart, you owe... more

Aaand Now I Want To Be an Archaeologist

8:16 PM on 12.01.2012 // knutaf's blog

You know, 2012 was a good year for me in gaming, especially for puzzle gaming--which I love. We started off the year with What else to say? This was an amazing journey for me and Lemeza. My bud... more

Masks are #*!&ing awesome

10:44 AM on 10.31.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

One of my favorite parts of Halloween are the masks. Fun superhero helmets and naughty-nurse medical masks. Creepy creatures and frightening villains. The alluringly mysterious and artistic - I... more

The Best Old Timey Trains Game You'll Play

12:19 PM on 10.26.2012 // knutaf's blog

I don't know what exactly I want to write about more

The Wreck-it/Fix-it Report

11:48 AM on 10.23.2012 // knutaf's blog

Surely some or hopefully all of you have seen the trailers for the upcoming (which was pretty good). But man, this looked pretty keen. One of these fancy new CG animated movies all about vide... more

XCOM: Enemy Unknown will flank your feels

8:55 AM on 10.17.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

is game comprised of devious gameplay loops and crushing pressure. Everything about the turn-based tactical strategy game has been weighted and measured perfectly by the sadistic minds at ... more

Conventions: PAX 2012 was a great, I say, a honkin' good time

2:44 PM on 09.17.2012 // knutaf's blog

This year was--I say--was a heck of a time, the best of times, even. I had a whole gaggle of fellas hanging around with me (good people, really good people, just a little kooky sometimes, if you ... more

Prepare to Die Again... And Again...

5:47 AM on 08.29.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

edition is more than the PC port that the hardcore crowd clamoured for (and then true to form, "boycotted" in a snarky huff). It is a love letter to fans of the series. A tip of the hat to ... more

Dark Souls and the "Style Over Substance" Mindset

12:14 PM on 07.20.2012 // knutaf's blog

It's no news to any of my friends that I'm severely addicted to at this point. I never could have predicted the way I became utterly gripped by it. Eventually, this largely became a matter of be... more

Injustice: Gods that (Probably) Won't Be Among Us

11:10 PM on 07.17.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

got my attention as soon as it was announced. A DC franchise fighting game based on the surprisingly good engine? Yup, count me in. The roster is already looking good. Batman and the other b... more

It's A Trap! The Drake Sword and You. (Dark Souls blog)

8:21 PM on 06.30.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

I love jolly cooperation. It's a big part of why I keep coming back to . I've spent entire evenings with my summon sign down in a tough place like Sen's Fortress or the New Londo ruins, lending... more

Shoot the Breeze: Pineapple Cacophony

12:27 AM on 06.20.2012 // Beyamor's blog

From the endless forest of scripture trees, all covered in the ivory ivy of time's filigree, comes the stirring of the Middle Gods, they, the Dixkin, who bespoke the sturdy lands of our wide wo... more

After The Perfect Ending – Max Payne 3

8:00 AM on 05.12.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

Those words have haunted me over the years. The final bittersweet farewell by Max Payne at the end of his long journey into the night, and my personal favourite ending of all time. It was th... more

Collaboration: An Unbeatable Tag-Team

3:45 AM on 05.06.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

Capcom is the best at making fighting games. Sure, there is a hatedom out there that likes to take the piss out of everything they do, . Street Fighter is sill the gold standard of the genre fo... more

10 Factoids about knutaf

9:50 PM on 04.04.2012 // knutaf's blog

Do I bother? I feel like lots of people already know some thing or another about me by now. I feel like I talk about myself too much sometimes as it is. I get self conscious about that kind of th... more

10 things you didn't know about Wrenchfarm

10:18 AM on 04.03.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

A bandwagon you say? Well I sure would like to hop on it sir, that I would. Here are ten things you don't know about me. See if you can stitch together the tattered tapestry of my life with t... more

10 Things Too Many About Beyamor

12:08 AM on 04.03.2012 // Beyamor's blog

Yes, the blog you've all been waiting for has arrived. At last, ten things about ! Once you're done with that, feel free to wander back here, though I wouldn't encourage you to read the blog i... more

10 Things Everybody And Their Mother Knows About vApathyv

9:52 PM on 04.02.2012 // vApathyv's blog

Man, this is gonna suck. Oh well, I'm all for jumping on a fad at the height of its popularity in order to seem relevant, so here goes. more

Journey Is About So Much More Than Travel

4:00 AM on 03.18.2012 // knutaf's blog

If you haven't played through I loved . It's probably the first thing I've ever played that made me just sink in and forget that I was even playing a game. more

A couple of silly Pokemon drawings I made when I was 22.

1:23 AM on 03.15.2012 // Beyamor's blog

Tits amighty, I love a good whiteboard. The only thing more heady than the tremendous potential for illustrated imagination are the sweet vapours of the purple dry erase marker. It's taken me an ... more

"Previously on (insert episodic game here)..."

2:19 PM on 02.28.2012 // Stevil's blog

Way back in the early 00’s, developers became enamoured with the idea of episodic content. It was a dream everybody could believe in. Well, believe in more than, say, the VR storage system in... more

I Am The Bat: How the "game" of Arkham City never gets in the way of the game.

11:16 AM on 02.28.2012 // Wrenchfarm's blog

There are some tropes and play mechanics in games that are intrinsically "gamey." Collection quests, high score boards, QTE's, and so on. Often this isn't an issue. Nobody begrudges complicated... more

Ezekiel 25:17 - a Dark Souls faith/dex PvP build

2:52 AM on 02.28.2012 // knutaf's blog

More ! Since it is almost the thing I've been playing for weeks, I guess it was only inevitable that I write another one of these, huh? If you've been watching at all, you'd have seen me crafti... more

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