The things you do for money…

The original Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction was a GTA clone released back when open-world games could still be called GTA clones, which means that it had very little to do with GTA. You played the role of the eponymous mercenary sent to a war-torn North Korea to blow shit up and make money. Actually, you were there to “apprehend” (yeah, right…) 52 high-ranking officers of some North Korean faction, but you did it by blowing shit…

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The Devil May Care

I don’t post much about video games, in part because I don’t post much at all, but also because I don’t play enough of them to really talk about them in any helpful way. I also don’t really care about them and think that paying more than 20$ for a game is ridiculous, and so I never really enjoy new releases, at least not until they reach a bargain bin price and talking about them…

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Booyah!

Booyah!

I don’t know if you’ve heard about Ouya, the new(-ish) $99 Android-based, cell-phone hardware boasting “micro-console” by Ouya Inc., but whether you have or not, I think it’s worth the time to talk a bit about it, partly because its short history is already hilarious, but also because the original hype doesn’t seem to want to die down, and I fear that some people might be tempted to get one, despite its glaring flaws and preferable alternatives. The Ouya…

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