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(edit:  click the picture of the title or visit ikariam.com if you’re interested after reading the article)

At work yesterday I was dragged into a one-way conversation with a customer about some crazy new computer game he was playing. He went on and on and I drifted in and out of interest; most of what he was tossing my way was typical of the kinds of characters I run into at Gamestop: rabidly eager to interest me (or anyone listening) in their newest obsession but painfully unable to describe it to the uninitiated. Most of the time it’s World of Warcraft, with some crazy throwing out statistics like “20.7 crit ratio” or name-dropping things like “Outlands” or “purple.” This time it was a game called Ikariam.

From what I could catch before I was subjected to more bold claims of pwnage was that Ikariam was some kind of MMO that played like a Civilization game and was absolutely free to play and completely browser-based (ergo no skeptical or lengthy download). To be completely fair to him, I am paid to act interested (and in this case and many others I genuinely am interested, if only because I like video games or because people are intriguing). Regardless, this was free and harmless so I gave it a shot.

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Eve Online: Trinity is being deployed tonight for the next 24 hours. That is one whole day that I will not be able to log; I am beside myself as to what to do. This will be the first time since I have started playing six months ago that the server has been offline for such a extended period of time. I am sure, like myself, others around the world are in the same crunch that I am experiencing right now-what to do with my time?

For those of you know dont know about the game…

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[Xbox 360] Portal – SCORE: 10
Highest Level Achieved: Played through the game one time, and then beat the advanced levels.
Description: A first person shooter puzzle game. Yes that sounds weird, but thats what it was.

Portal starts out in a testing facility where you begin to learn how the portals work. as you progress, the tests of course get more difficult. To navigate through the different tests you have a portal gun that shoots out two different portals, a blue and an orange one. When you walk through the blue portal you come out wherever you the orange portal is. This is a very unique idea for a game that could have gone wrong, but it was amazing to play.

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If you like Final Fantasy then you need to go check out these videos. The good folks of Gametrailers.com have put together a great history of Final Fantasy from the beginning to today. It is going to be a 13 part series and today they have reached the 8th part in the series, so if this is the first you have heard of it you have a lot of catching up to do. Each video is about 10-20 min of pure Final Fantasy goodness. These videos are some of the best “history” videos I have ever watched for a video game series. That is due in part to the fact that I am a HUGE Final Fantasy fan. I own almost every version of every Final Fantasy that has been released in the States.