Regular Columns

NHL 11 Microtransactions, Pinball Wizards, and Kinect Does Sign Language? – Welcome to the column that is the best in the world at what it does (which is?) known as Dare to Play the Game.

I think I have Lips fever. (It is like cowbell fever but with less clanging) I’ve been playing the Lips games quite a bit. For some reason, I have flashbacks of college when all I did was visit smoky bars and sing songs.
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Bungie Penalizes Ragequitters, Console Corporate Hacking, and Making Your Fable 3 Villager? – Welcome to the column that is the president of Ragejoiners of America known as Dare to Play the Game.

Most of you will be happy to know that I started a new game this week while finishing off some achievements for Marvel vs Capcom 2.
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Final Fantasy XIV ESRB Rating, Street Fighter X Tekken, and Jailbreaking is okay? – Welcome to the column that will be quite happy when streaking is determined to be socially and legally acceptable known as Dare to Play the Game.

Nothing to report on World of Warcraft this week, because I’m not playing. Yep, the extent of my Warcraft life this week was reading Arthas: Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden and watching my wife play her Gnome Warrior (tank spec) named Ankletank.
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Alternatives to Split Screen Multiplayer, Plants vs Zombies, and Centipede making a comeback? – Welcome to the column that would like to know what happened to their parachute pants known as Dare to Play the Game.

As of Saturday morning, I am officially done with World of Warcraft until Cataclysm drops. I’m played my priest mostly, completing some last minute heroics which included exalted status with the Kirin Tor as well as enough marks to get an epic neck piece.
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Ubisoft and 3d, Big Ben in Madden, and 3ds can stop Piracy? – Welcome to the column that thinks you will find them a slasher…of prices known as Dare to Play the Game.

Welp, we are entering the last week of my WoW account until Cataclysm. After that, I’ll either be forced to play on my wife’s account or just cool it down for a while.
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Eating Farmville, Manute Bol in NBA Jam, and a Call of Duty MMO? – Welcome to the column that caters to hobbits and gnomes who are addicted to Pixy Stix known as Dare to Play the Game.

Well, with a little bit of work I now have a gearscore that exceeds 2000 on my dwarf priest on World of Warcraft. In addition, he reached 5000 gold and purchased his epic flying.
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Gaming with Criminals, Kinect is like Super Mario Bros & Mario Kart restores Vision? – Welcome to the column that will make you go blind if you don’t use both hands known as Dare to Play the Game.

Honestly, I didn’t do too much in the land de World of Warcraft. Mostly I gathered some Frost and Triumph emblems for my dwarf via Ahune (Mid-Summer Holiday boss) and a few heroics.
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Xbox Kinect Bowling, Sony Talks About 3DS & Microsoft pushes again for PC Gaming? – Welcome to the column that thinks 3d gaming needs a large slap of reality known as Dare to Play the Game.

I’m back for another week with more World of Warcraft gaming nonsense. As it turns out, I did play my dwarf priest some more but most of my weekend involved getting my troll rogue closer to 80.
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Some E3 News, Summer of XBLA Arcade is back & What exactly is a Kinect? – Welcome to the column that will make the announcement at E3 that they write a gaming column every Wednesday known as Dare to Play the Game.

Well, I did it, finally. On Sunday, my Dwarf Priest finally reached level 80. Oddly enough, it was accomplished in Utgarde Pinnacle on the very last boss.
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Lawsuits against Final Fantasy, Dungeon Siege 3 Info & Booth Babe restrictions? – Welcome to the column that is considering the idea of launching an expo called Gaming Pron 2011 featuring nothing but booth babes known as Dare to Play the Game.

All is better in World of Warcraft. After a second GM ticket and a lot more waiting, Sarah’s account is back for the most part. They restored Sarah’s 2 80’s, her 78 and my 75 rogue all in one piece from what I can tell.
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Prince of Persia Box Office, PSPGo still Sucks & Hidden Xbox 360 games? – Welcome to the column that had its pile of shame declared a national terrorist threat known as Dare to Play the Game.

Well there is some good news and some bad news this week in the land of the World of Warcraft. Good news, my dwarf shadow priest is level 79 and about half-way home to 80.
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The Fall of the PSP, No German Violent Games Ban & Nintendo doesn’t make games for kids? – Welcome to the column that was two hundred columns in the making known as Dare to Play the Game.

I’m back from vacation, thanks for noticing. Thank you even if you didn’t notice, now quick you have 199 columns to read before you can enjoy this one (I have to get my hits somehow)
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Project Ten Dollar, 451 Weeks & Obama Doesn’t Know How to Work an XBox? – Welcome to the column that doesn’t know the first thing about politics but at least we are honest about it known as Dare to Play the Game.

I spent most of this week in between good ole World of Warcraft and Final Fight Double Impact. For Final Fight/Magic Sword, I took the time to beat each game (or in the case of Final Fight 3 times) at least once and get half of the achievements.
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Fallout 3: New Vegas, Super Mario Crossover & When Will I Quit Gaming? – Welcome to the column that dares anybody to rip the controller from his cold dead hands known as Dare to Play the Game.

So, I looked at Tecmo Bowl Throwback all of last week and I simply could not bring myself to buy the darn thing. There is honestly only one reason why.
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Level Creation in Dante’s Inferno, Three Years of LOTR Online & ESRB isn’t good enough? – Welcome to the column that wishes to submit a new rating of C (for Crap) to the ESRB known as Dare to Play the Game.

I’ve been playing some fighting games lately. As some of you know, I’ve been collecting old xbox original games and came upon a complete copy of Dead or Alive 3 for $5.
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