December 2010
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Adam's 2010 Games of the Year
And now: my goatee from 2003, here to introduce you to my GOTY picks for 2010.
[pictured above: just look at that fine goatee.]
I am adapting the criteria that Time magazine uses in awarding their “Person of the Year”: these three are the games that I liked most, or anticipated most, or thought about the most. They’re not necessarily what I think are the best games of the...
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Past Romantic
I was excited this summer to see that a Scott Pilgrim game would be coming to Xbox Live Arcade to accompany the release of the Scott Pilgrim movie. The graphic novel series used video games not as a series of pop culture references, but as a basis for a language that the characters in the world the books create all speak, a common ground upon which all of their conversations can stand. So it made...