Monthly Archives: May 2011
Inaugural Palette Swaps Podcast Now Live
Episode One of the Palette Swaps Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. Right-click to save the file, load it on your listening device of choice and join us as we cast our pods directly into your earholes. Alternatively, … Continue reading
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Where Vice Meets Art
[Nate] Makes Crime a Career — and Ladies a Hobby! That’s thrice now. As the bourbon (Bulleit [‘bullet’]) works its way down I have less and less tolerance for failure. It’s in their eyes. Their secrets, the answer to these … Continue reading
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Day Drinking Strategy Guide
OR: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Cheap Beer Level 1-1: Drinks After Work The first round is a pretty straightforward tutorial that gets you accustomed to the controls in a simple social situation. After the opening cutscene … Continue reading
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A Short Rant About Long Games
I’m a busy guy. I find that the weeks where I spend more time writing about games than I do playing them aren’t so rare as it seems, mostly because I don’t play that many games these days. Finishing Bulletstorm (and … Continue reading
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Let’s Designing ~3: The Value of Sacrifice
I haven’t really been playing games this week, but I watched a metric fuckton of Doctor Who. Stick around, I’m going somewhere with this. There’s this moment in nearly every episode where the Doctor turns on his opponent and demands … Continue reading
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L.A. Boire
So the Palette Swaps Crew united on Saturday afternoon to celebrate our mutual love of video games (especially video games with stories) and fancy-shmancy cocktails. We also recorded it, which was pretty awesome. One of our viewers described us as … Continue reading
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List Ex Machina: 5 Things I Wager You Never Knew About Deus Ex
I spent all weekend drinking and playing games with friends, then I ran eight miles. When I got home, I immediately drank two cans of grape soda and started reinstalling Deus Ex on my laptop. I don’t know what it … Continue reading
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I’ve Got A Story To Tell
come on Monkey, let’s go. Gears of War is a rhythm game. I’m slowly but surely lifting Portal 2 off of the glittery pedestal I’ve erected for it. Brink is everything I’ve ever wanted out of Team Fortress 2. And … Continue reading
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Let’s Designing~ #2: Build Order and APM (or, Why Video Games Make Me Drink More)
I reckon this isn’t really a game so much as a Life Hack(tm), but whatever. ~LET’S DESIGNING~ For people who play real-time strategy games, there is a significant first step that starts the transition from Random Scrub to a Serious Player. … Continue reading
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Portal 2: Time Paradox
I spent my Sunday playing games instead of writing about playing games. Would you like to know what I just finished? SPOILERS AHEAD
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