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James Trauben

James Trauben was loosed from his prison beneath the surface of New Jersey over two decades ago and exiled to California, lest he draw further strength from his native soil. Contained for a time within the eldritch halls of California State University Chico, he has emerged bearing a Bachelor’s degree in History and an array of religious and philosophical trivia. Twitter
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James Trauben

Uncharted 3 – More Gold is Still Gold

I could save us all a lot of time and just say that Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is at least as good as its predecessor. I could say it sparkles with witty character dialogue. I could say once the game gets going, set pieces that would be the climax of another franchise are a frequent

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November 5, 2011 No Comments

Excuse Plots have No Excuses

Observant readers – assuming I’ve got readers; please, don’t divest me of the illusion – may have noticed that even though a lot of my reviews focus on games as storytelling, few of them cover role-playing games, the archetypal game-as-story. Of course, part of it is there aren’t as many big-name console RPGs on the

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October 31, 2011 No Comments

Freespace Films releases Starcraft: Final Metamorphosis

Starcraft: Final Metamorphosis, a fan animation depicting various scenes from the Starcraft universe, is officially out today. A medley of individual vignettes, Final Metamorphosis depicts ground-level battle scenes and moments mostly from the time period of the original Starcraft, accompanied by a voice-over narration by Kerrigan. Among the apparent scenes included are Kerrigan’s battle with

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October 27, 2011 1 Comment
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James Trauben

Ace Combat Assault Horizon Flits in and out of the Danger Zone

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon places me into an awkward position. On the one hand, it is damned hard to make flying a jet fighter through epic dogfights not exhilarating. My inner child, the one who watched Top Gun as a kid until my parents must have conveniently “lost” the video, is very easily pleased when

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October 18, 2011 No Comments

Starcraft Universe launching Open Developer Preview

Starcraft Universe is holding an Open Developer Preview over the US and EU Battle.net from October 19th to October 30th while the developers are at BlizzCon. The preview takes place in the “Encephalon Grid,” a player-vs-player arena allowing players to start as level 30 with a full set of gear tailored towards PvP. The player’s

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October 17, 2011 No Comments

New walkthrough video for Deux Ex: Human Revolution DLC

A new walkthrough video is available for the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution downloadable content pack “The Missing Link,” dealing with Adam Jensen’s three-day absence in his search for the truth during Human Revolution. Narrated by designer Antoine Thisdale, the new video displays a section of the second half of “The Missing Link,” due for

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October 13, 2011 No Comments
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James Trauben

Gears of War 3 – Tender Emotion for Real Men

Without even going into a discussion of its mechanical achievements, Gears of War 3 is a compelling work of narrative and the most polished entry in the franchise. It is a rejection of the concept that storytelling is anathema to the shooter genre, and developers could certainly do worse than mimic Epic’s masterpiece. It is

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September 23, 2011 No Comments

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