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I was busy this weekend…

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Strategy Guide ShelfI created a second office in my son’s playroom last weekend, and this weekend I decided to make that my strategy guide war room as well as a, uh, second office for work. So finally, all of my guides can sit proudly in some decent shelves instead of the hand-me-down crap I had them in (that now houses all my anthologies from my English lit days). Check out how much the middle of the shelf bows downward. Them books–particularly the collector’s editions–be HEAVY.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Strategy Guide Review

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Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in TimeStrategy Guide Review Policy:

My goal for these strategy guide reviews is not to discuss whether one needs the guide to complete the game. Every gamer has different strengths and skills, and one may need every bit of a guide, another may need to look up information for quick assistance once, and another may laugh at the idea of ever using a guide, even the online freebies. My goal is to determine whether the guide is 1) helpful in the first place, 2) does it encompass gamers who need hand-holding as well as those who need a quick reference and 3) how much information does it really have.

Review:

Offbase Productions has a habit of writing nice guides and presenting them in such a way that the design makes it very difficult to find what you are looking for. Unfortunately, their guide for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is no different. [Read more…]

Weekly Poll: Which Q4 game are you looking forward to the most?

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Hey looky there! A new poll! This one is such a doozy that I don’t even have an answer for it yet.

The polling widget I use only allowed for 10 choices, and it was hard to narrow the extensive release list to just 10. And do you know what is even scarier? Early 2011 is going to be far, far worse than this list.

But back to focusing on the not-so-distant future, which of all of these highly anticipated titles are you looking forward to the most? Which one is the only one that will make your Christmas complete? For the first time since the Wii’s launch, Nintendo has an impressive stack to fill your 2010. I would say that I’m extremely fortunate in that of their line-up, only Epic Mickey beckons me, but I’m quite not fortunate in every other arena. So many of these games showed up at E3, and they all look fantastic.

I might as well just kill off my wallet now just to be merciful.

EDIT: There has been a request for a write-in vote for Call of Duty: Black Ops. If you wish to write in this vote, please do so in the comments. 🙂

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