February 2020 Xbox Live Games With Gold

Time for the annoyance that is the shortest month of the year, February. Well, at least this this time around it’s a leap year, which means 29 days as opposed to 28, which means one extra day to make sure you get the later games in this months Games With Gold offerings. This time around, …
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Byte – The Vine 2.0 That Nobody (Sane) Wanted Or Needed

Remember Vine, that annoying as hell 6 second video sharing service that was big in the early-mid 2010’s, that service that Twitter bought, kept around for a while then killed off in 2016? The one that spawned the “careers” of many an annoying and, in some cases, controversial to be internet celebrities (I’m looking at …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 93: Zelda II – Episode Review

It’s time for something a little different in the Angry Video Game Nerd series, at least, different from what we’ve had in the past year or so worth of episodes — in this one, James takes a look at Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Yep. A Zelda game that isn’t the CD-i ones. This …
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I Still Haven’t Opened My PlayStation Classic. Seriously.

Loyal readers may recall back on Amazon Prime Day I ordered a PlayStation Classic. After nearly a month it finally arrived and I just let it sit there and not get opened. That hasn’t changed at all. Yep. Over 5 months have passed, and I’ve still not bothered to even open it and mess with …
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Cloud Gaming – A Solution To Problems That Don’t Really Exist

Cloud Gaming (or, Game Streaming as some will call it) is marketed as a solution to commonly perceived shortcomings of both PC based and console based gaming — namely large install sizes and long download times for the games themselves and / or their updates, on top of the cost of the hardware in and …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 92: Game Glitches – Episode Review

Moving on from the nightmare that is Action 52 the Angry Video Game Nerd takes a bit of a twist, in this episode covering “game glitches” in all their various forms. We start off with an intentionally glitched version of the opening. Once that crashes (literally) we get to the Nerd just trying to enjoy …
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No, I’m Not Arguing With You On Twitter

Hello there. If you’re reading this, it means one of two things — you either saw this post on my site / shared somewhere on social media and decided to click it, or I intentionally shared it with you for a good reason — you seem to be hell bent on starting some kind of …
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I Honestly Can’t Stand What The Gaming Scene / Gaming Culture Has Become

I’ve been a “gamer” my entire life. For clarity, I define “gamer” as simply someone who enjoys video games. While one can refine and sub-divide that (what types of games someone likes, how often they play, to what extent they “care” about the subject) that’s not important here. What is is simply the idea of …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 91: Cheetahmen – Episode Review

Moving on from the end of the Action 52 review, we meet back with The Nerd as he prepares to play the final game on the cartridge – Cheetahmen. A game that in and of itself is as infamous as Action 52 on a whole, it was supposed to be a major franchise, in the …
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You Clearly Didn’t Actually Read The Article, Did You?

Hello there. If you’re reading this, it means one of two things — you either saw this post on my site / shared somewhere on social media and decided to click it, or I intentionally shared it with you for a good reason — you replied, in some way, to a post sharing one of …
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Sorry PlayStation Fans, Instagram Likes Only Matter For, Well, Instagram

I know, I’m late on this. It’s been a week, whatever. I still wanted to write about this one. Last week when Sony unveiled the PlayStation 5 logo it was met with, shall we say, mixed reactions. The internet quickly mocked the fact that it looked just like the previous PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 …
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I, For One, Welcome The End Of Support For Windows 7

Yesterday, January 14th 2020, marked the end of support date for Windows 7, and with that came the same cries of anger that came when Microsoft finally killed of Windows XP support back in 2014. All over the internet (especially Twitter) you can find people actually angry at Microsoft for ending support for the decade …
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Blocked For A Reason – 2020 Edition

Back in early 2016 I wrote an article titled “Blocked for a Reason.” The article covered the subject of blocking people on social media – in simple form, the reason behind such (at least for me) and what it actually means when that event happens. I thought it would be good, since it’s been nearly …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 90: Action 52 – Episode Review

Time to start on Season 5 of the Angry Video Game Nerd, and what a game James chose to look at for this episode — Action 52 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is legendary among gamers for the same reason many games James has covered in the series are: it’s terrible. The difference …
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Finally Getting Back Into The Groove Of Writing About Gaming

I really didn’t want to end today without having written something. I’ve been on a bit of a hot streak recently with posts here, but today work really demanded my all and since I’ve gotten home I’ve felt like nothing but trying to relax. Still, I want to keep the momentum of this hot streak …
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