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Bing Wants You To Eat a Motsu Pod

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As some of you know, I do a fair amount of work in the world of Local SEO or “LSO”. That is, I help clients optimize their data so that they appear in map search engines for phrases like “Detroit florist.” Today I was greatly amused by some of the categories Bing provided for businesses [...]

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Back Up WordPress to Google Drive? Careful!

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Just a quick little rant about backing up your WordPress blog to Google Drive. I love this idea, but at the moment it’s an example of why you can’t always trust what you read in a quick Google search. Dig deeper, my geeks. There are two WordPress plugins that you’ll see scattered around in the top [...]

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Why I Hate Stealth Games, and More

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Stealth Games and Why They Suck Just got through playing a fair number of hours of Hitman: Absolution. It’s well-executed (ha ha) and smooth. I love how you can perform the right actions in context that you expect your hero to be capable of. But I hate stealth games. I think we’ve all played our [...]

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PS3 Controller Problems

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Game Industry Denizens – Not Immune to PS3 Controller Problems My PS3 controller’s started to cause me problems lately. It’s the “random dpad button presses” problem. I’m putting along, just trying to destroy digital things in my little fantasy worlds, and suddenly my avatar is changing weapons like a dervish and insulting all of my [...]

Game of the Year? Dead Island Thoughts

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Dead Island Releases Dubious Game of the Year Edition To Muffled Groans Zombies. How many must we slay to save the world? Unfortunately, Dead Island brought us a tropical island full of them, and if my multiple-rental of the title is any indication, putting zombies in paradise is not any substitute for fresh ideas. It’s [...]

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A Game Study and a Game Writer Question

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Videogames have endured a lot of scrutiny in recent years. Games cause antisocial behavior. Games cause psychosis. Games cause incontinence! We have some good news on the public relations front, game writing aficionados. Word from The Atlantic is that games, especially games with a physical aspect, might be an antioxidant of sorts for aging minds. [...]

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Newsflash: The Earth Isn’t Round

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Hey, Somebody Sat On My Planet! Kids, today we’ll talk about things astronomical, because videogame writers are such geeks. First up, take a look at this lumpy dumpy planet we live on! I mean, I never expected Earth to be a perfect sphere, but this is an abomination. Newsflash: the earth isn’t round or square. [...]

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Can the Game Industry Ever Do 40?

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The Videogame Industry and the 40 Hour Workweek TIME Magazine has a new article up about the 40-hour workweek. Most people in the game industry find this concept quaint. “That’s for regular jobs,” they’ll say, or “Never gonna happen.” Not only are long “crunch” hours often necessary because of publisher deadlines, the dreaded holiday season [...]

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Pizza Delivery? Or Papa Murphy’s?

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Pizza Parties and Videogaming = Bliss The next time you’re thinking about getting some pizza delivery, don’t forget that you’ve got other options, including the take n’ bake offerings from Papa Murphy’s. Trying the Taco Grande Pizza The kind folks at Papa Murphy’s set us up with a taste of their limited-time-only Taco Grande pizza [...]

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Mini-Review: The John Carter Movie

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Writer Patrick Sullivan contributes this mini-review of the new movie based on Edgar Rice Burrough’s books: I saw a sneak of John Carter recently and I say go see it. Really, ignore the horrible marketing and lackluster trailers Disney have done for the film, and give it a shot. It is breezy, accessible, swashbuckling fun [...]

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Bing Wants You To Eat a Motsu Pod

Back Up WordPress to Google Drive? Careful!

Why I Hate Stealth Games, and More

PS3 Controller Problems

Game of the Year? Dead Island Thoughts

A Game Study and a Game Writer Question

Newsflash: The Earth Isn’t Round

Can the Game Industry Ever Do 40?

Pizza Delivery? Or Papa Murphy’s?

Mini-Review: The John Carter Movie

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