Michael Durr

EA Restores NFL Players, Lawsuits involving NCAA Games, & Microsoft spends 200 million on Facebook apps? – Welcome to the column that would be willing to trade bad jokes for virtual currency known as Dare to Play the Game.

This is the part of the show where I tell you I played all these games and then you use the scroll wheel on your mouse and get to the news or the releases because you don’t like reading my witty banter on my own life events.
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Xbox DLC Going Away, Re-releasing PS games, & Natal is the next mouse? – Welcome to the column that continues to be stubborn about backwards compatibility until the Dreamcast starts playing Sega Genesis games known as Dare to Play the Game.

Another week in the world of gaming. I am now officially one achievement away from a full boat on WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010. 950 points.
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The Tester, Capcom in the Green, & Dante’s Inferno at The Superbowl? – Welcome to the column that has seen hell and has the purple dinosaur marks to prove it known as Dare to Play the Game.

Welp, as many of you know I do play the World of Warcraft. I had fiddled around with my dwarf priest here and there. This past Monday, he hit level 70.
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Farmville Addicts, Xbox Indie Game Sales, & Mass Effect 2 will make you swap discs? – Welcome to the column that gets freaky with the geeks and wipes up afterwards known as Dare to Play the Game.

For a few months now, I have been playing WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010. Honestly, when I first got the game I didn’t think I was going to get anywhere close to 1000 achievement points. Then a funny thing happened. I kept with it.
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Beatles Rock Band Sales Figures, Video Games: the 5th Network, & Video Games survive Recession? – Welcome to the column that survived the recession and shot itself in the arm to boot known as Dare to Play the Game.

Someday I’ll learn to keep playing the characters I have in World of Warcraft and not create new ones. For anybody who hasn’t tuned into this column (or read my facebook page), I have about half a dozen characters in WoW.
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Target Says No to Minigames, Kids Taught thru Video Games, & What the heck is DLC again? – Welcome to the column that is working on world domination one red-ringed Xbox at a time (if only it were that simple) known as Dare to Play the Game.

This week, I can safely say I didn’t game all that much. I did continue to play some on the Wii and muddled around with my Xbox 360 as well.
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Tiger Woods Makes a Boxer into a Golfer, Sega says no to M rated Wii titles, & The Return of NBA Jam? – Welcome to the column that was a smooth operator with Tom Gugliotta on his team known as Dare to Play the Game.

Another week with the Wii and I believe I have reached an understanding with the machine. Nintendo-made games & Virtual Console make me happy. Third party games to this point make me very sad.
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Xbox Live Goes Mobile, Rebuilding Atari Chips, & Warcraft gets its own Magazine? – Welcome to the column that will have a happy new year even if he has to gag & tie up several game executives to do it known as Dare to Play the Game.

Christmas has gone by in the Kedrix household and it turned out to be a very nice holiday. For Christmas as most of you know, I gave Sarah a Wii with all the trimmings and fixings. On Christmas day, I also took the opportunity to download for her the original Super Smash Bros.
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EA MMA News, Heavy Rain delayed Trophies, & EGM to be Re -launched? – Welcome to the column that made a comeback several years but nobody knew they were gone known as Dare to Play the Game.

Still in Wii Land, population 2. See this is the problem when you get a new system that’s been around a little while; you spend a lot of time catching up. This week was indeed no different than last.
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Saboteur Nudity, Greenday for Rockband, & PS3 could have used Network storage? – Welcome to the column that should have probably read the fine print when it came to organ donation known as Dare to Play the Game.

Thankfully, I received my Wii component cable on Saturday night. It hooked right up, and soon I was thrilled to death when I realized I had no sound at all.
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