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How CityVille Conquered My World

Posted by: on January 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm
How CityVille Conquered My World

Okay, I’ve got this figured out: I’m going to get home and pop open CityVille. I should receive enough Zoning Permits from my Facebook neighbors to purchase another expansion that will allow me to physically grow my city. Oh, but I also have a huge crop of corn I need to harvest at 9:34PM so I can supply my stores, which I can then gather funds from which allow me to build more crap. But, I only have 30 energy and I have 40 crops to harvest, which means I better run and visit my neighbors’ cities so I can get extra energy, instead of having to wait nearly an hour to get that energy back the normal way. Oh, and in each neighbor city, I can visit five businesses or residences which gets me more money and increases my neighbor rating, which in turn…

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Electric Cars? Whaaaaaa…

Posted by: on January 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Electric Cars? Whaaaaaa…

It seems to me that the guys pushing electric vehicles started off on the wrong foot. California decided in the early 90s that it wanted a Zero Emission Vehicle to combat their terrible air quality – and thus the EV1 was born. We all know how that went. Read the rest of this article…

Gaming Failure of The Week: Bulletstorm Demo

Posted by: on January 29, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Gaming Failure of The Week: Bulletstorm Demo

Let’s be honest here: I have absolutely no qualms with the fact that Epic is building hyper-intense games with solid bricks of digital testosterone. The developer only recently gained that reputation with the Gears of War games – produced exclusively for the Xbox 360 – which made a lot of money for them. So, it makes sense that their first major multi-platform, post-Gears franchise doesn’t deviate too much from that reputation, instead notching it to an even further extreme.

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