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Dead Island zombie disassembly

I’ve been playing Dead Island this week. I see a lot of similarities to Borderlands, in terms of general structure. In the same way that shooting bad guys in Borderlands was satisfying enough for me to excuse the sort of “RPG Lite” story and mission structure, the melee in Dead Island goes a long way towards allowing me to excuse …

Blog Entry | September 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Vault

If you haven’t played Borderlands… SHAME! Oh shameful gamer, you have deprived yourself of a really entertaining co-op experience.  Perhaps even worse, you didn’t have the background knowledge to get this week’s Unicorn Soup comic.  So here’s some crummy exposition. Borderlands is a game predicated on the well known fact that gamers love collecting shinier, bigger and flashier stuff.  All …

Blog Entry | August 18th, 2011 | No Comments