In life, a gamer is surrounded by three types of people: the hardcore (gaming friends), the casuals, and the haters.  An avid gamer will usually try to steer clear of the game-haters to avoid the annoyances they bring, but fate can be cruel and funny.
One moment you’re coming up with ideas on how to get [...]

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You like free stuff? Right? What about if the free stuff is really stuff you’ve paid for?
When EA rolled out their plan to schedule DLC after a game’s launch for free to people that bought Mass Effect 2 or Battlefield: Bad Company 2, it came across as a smart idea. Essentially, the DLC plan was, [...]

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Bioware announced yesterday the first paid DLC for the hyper-popular Mass Effect 2.  In other, equally exciting news, I rewrote a 1996 philosophy paper from my freshman year in college to include 3 more paragraphs.  Is happiness an intrinsic reality, or is it simply a mammalian construct we invented to assuage our fears about the [...]

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Editor’s note: I received this in my email inbox today from faithful reader Odwalla. I thought it was hilarious and I hope you do too!
From: Shepard, Commander
To: <alias>Normandy – Female Crew
Subject: Want to clear the air before we go through the O4 relay
Ladies:
I am getting increasingly frustrated with the amount of time I am having [...]

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A few months ago, the world was stunned as a series of events that caused the famous golfer’s life to spin out of control. Today, Tiger Woods made a very public apology.  During the psuedo-press conference Tiger directly addressed his extramarital dalliances and apologized to his wife and children when he said:
“To my wife and [...]

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In breaking news, Electronic Arts announced that Mining Hero, based off of the extremely successful RPG/shooter Mass Effect 2, will be coming to Xbox Live arcade for a mere 1600 Microsoft points next week.  This comes in response to what the company is calling “massive demand” for an outer space mining simulation.
“We’re really happy with [...]

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I’m baaaaack!
Ok, that was rather cheesy. I know I have been very sporadic with posting these, but it is rather difficult finding videos that I find funny. Sure there are a billion videos on Youtube, but 99% of them are rather useless. Luckily Mass Effect 2 is providing countless humorous videos. Here’s one of Legion… [...]

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Editor’s note: This is a first in what could be a weekly series that will pit two games, with not so similar gameplay, against each other to determine which has the better Firefight!
Two of what could be Game of the Year contenders have already been released. Mass Effect 2 is a sprawling RPG with fantastic [...]

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There certainly is a lot going on in Mass Effect 2. Lots to see and talk about. And talk about, and talk about and talk and talk and talk… There’s so much dialogue that some people might skip over things. If you’re a skipper, here’s some things you might have missed in Mass Effect 2.
Liara [...]

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Welcome to the sixth in a series of guides for the different starting classes in Mass Effect 2! If you enjoy this guide, please check out our other Survival Guides.
So, you want to be a soldier? Well, the good news is that despite some limitations you are probably picking the easiest class to understand and play [...]

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