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Legendary – Secret Wars: Volume 2 Expansion
The dimension-spanning Secret Wars story, introduced into Legendary with a big box expansion in the summer of 2015, continues in Legendary’s sixth expansion, released in December of the same year. However, while Secret Wars, Volume 2 may be a sequel … Continue reading
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Magic! Intrigue! Civil Unrest! An Early Look at the Game “Mistborn: House War”
Once upon a time, a mad genius by the name of Brandon Sanderson began penning an epic fantasy trilogy that turned into the literary equivalent of intricate Swiss clockwork: the Mistborn series. It’s a high fantasy series about people who … Continue reading
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The Best of #E32016, Day 1
So I covered Xbox’s abysmal opening. What about the rest of day 1? Ghost Recon: Wildlands Last year, this was only a trailer, one that promised the player the ability to tackle the same problem from multiple angles — … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Uncategorized, Video Games
Tagged Playstation, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Wars: Battlefront, Video Games, Violent Video Games, Zombies
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#E32016’s Xbox Press Conference
Xbox One has finally showed us their true colors: almost nothing new. NO, really. First, if I hear the word “diversity” one more time … seriously, stop with the buzzwords. Or at least make new ones. As I watched the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaming, Halo, Xbox, Xbox 360
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Battlefield 1 Drops at #XboxE3
Welcome to World War 1. No, that’s really my only commentary on that. It looks like it as all the artillery, vehicles, and weapons of World War i. And if I saw that correctly, there might even by some Lawrence … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Uncategorized, Video Games
Tagged battlefield, E3, Video Games, War, World War II
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#XboxE3 Reveals a Thinner Console
Microsoft revealed the “Xbox One S” at E3 this Monday, June 13. At which point, you have to ask, “And who cares?” Sorry, while this is an improvement over the old school VCR cinder block that was the original XBone, … Continue reading
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Titanfall Returns at #E32016
http://widgets.ign.com/video/embed/content.html?url=http://www.ign.com/videos/2016/06/12/titanfall-2-multiplayer-gameplay-trailer-e3-2016 I think I can say that I’m officially disappointed. More multiplayer. Oh yay. If you didn’t see the original Titanfall, it was a lot of this, with a disappointing multiplayer campaign, and barely any story or content to the universe … Continue reading
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Mass Effect: Andromeda E3 Trailer
I’m not much of a video gamer, but I finally got around to the Mass Effect trilogy last year and was blown away. Prior to that, I was tooling around with World of Warcraft (I generally only invest my time and energy in one … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Fiction, Gaming, Science Fiction, Video Games
Tagged Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Andromeda, World of Warcraft
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Habitica: Productivity that Grants XP
A few months ago, I noticed someone in one of my Facebook groups posting about an interesting app called Habitica. It’s one of a host of time-management and productivity-increasing applications, both web- and mobile-based. What sets it apart, however, is … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Gaming, Health, Plugs and Promotions, Resources, Reviews, Video Games
Tagged Habitica, Productivity
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Legendary – Secret Wars: Volume 1 Expansion
In the latter half of 2015, Marvel Comics ran a major series of stories affecting their entire superhero universe. It involved the various parallel dimensions and alternate universes colliding: two universes go in, only one comes out! Two teams – … Continue reading
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A Zombie Game With Brains: The Walking Dead, Season 1
You’ve probably heard of the popular TV show The Walking Dead. You know, the one that actually made it cool to watch TV about zombies. You might even know about the original comics that the show was based on. This … Continue reading
Legendary: Guardians of the Galaxy Expansion
As a tie-in to the Guardians of the Galaxy film of 2014, Upper Deck introduced the third “small box” expansion for Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game (the game’s fourth expansion overall, following Dark City, Fantastic Four, and Paint the Town … Continue reading
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Tagged Artifact, Attack, Building, Card, Common, Cosmic, Cost, Deck, Drax the Destroyer, Galaxy, Game, Gamora, Gem, Groot, Guardian, Hero, Infinity, Kree, Legendary, Marvel, Mastermind, Rare, Recruit, Rocket Raccoon, Ronan the Accuser, Scheme, Shard, Star, Star-Lord, Strike, Supreme Intelligence, Thanos, Uncommon, Villain, Wound
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Strange Skies: Fortune Favors the Bold (Part 2)
I ran out of time in the last segment (or rather, I decided the wall o’ text was big enough), so I wasn’t able to finish the tale of the first chapter of Strange Skies. If you missed that first installment, … Continue reading
Strange Skies: Fortune Favors the Bold
I promised to share the events of Strange Skies, the campaign I’m running that includes over half of our Catholic Geeks writers. That was a few weeks ago, so it’s high time I fulfill that promise. And, since we just came to … Continue reading
Legendary: Paint the Town Red Expansion
In the base game set of Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game, Upper Deck established a core group of well-known and beloved heroes to take on equally recognizable villains. One such hero was Spiderman, arguably the most famous hero of Marvel … Continue reading
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Tagged Attack, Black Cat, Card, Carnage, City, Feast, Game, Hero, Kraven, Legendary, Marvel, Master Strike, Mastermind, Moon Knight, Mysterio, Recruit, Rooftops, Sandman, Scarlet, Spider, Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Symbiote, Upper Deck, Villain, Wall-Crawl
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To Sail the 7th Sea
There’s a game I’ve never played and yet I’ve enjoyed anyway. It’s called 7th Sea, and it’s a near-Earth (not an alternate history, but with deliberately obvious parallels) setting that, at its debut, was extremely innovative. Unlike much more ubiquitous roleplaying games, you … Continue reading
Legendary: Fantastic Four Expansion
It’s been a while since we looked at the wonderful world of Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game, far longer than I intended, but the time has come to return to this universe of heroes and villains! When last we left … Continue reading
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Tagged Attack, Ben Grimm, Board Game, Burrow, City, Cosmic, fantastic four, Focus, Galactus, Gaming, Herald, Hero, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Legendary, Marvel, Master Strike, Mastermind, Mole Man, Mr. Fantastic, Recruit, Scheme, Silver Surfer, Storm, Street, Subterranea, Thing, Threat, Upper Deck, Villain
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A Flight of Dragon Awards
DragonCon is a convention that takes place every year over the Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta, GA. It is, by all accounts, the largest sci-fi and fantasy convention on the planet Earth. If you don’t believe me, their minimum … Continue reading →