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Welcome to Cary’s “Best Video Games of 2013 SO FAR Awards Show!”  Featuring special guests Drippy, Ulala, 9-Volt, Luigi and Polterpup, plus Blathers the Owl.  And now here’s your host: Cary!

Recently I got Game & Wario for Wii U.  It’s in the WarioWare series of titles, but they probably didn’t use the name because the games are a bit different this time around.  More like longer mini-games instead of the two second microgames of the past.  They spoof Game & Watch with the title, and the start screen for each game feature cheesy ‘box art’ for every mini-game.  So as I always like to do with these kinds of things, here’s a rundown of the mini-games you can play in Game & Wario.

Guess what?  This June marks the 10^th Anniversary of the GamerDad.com site!  It’s been around in some form or fashion ever since Father’s Day of 2003!  I wasn’t there at the beginning, but I came on shortly thereafter.  A month or so after it started, a classic gaming Web site I used to visit posted a link to an article about Space Invaders that was on GamerDad.com.  I really liked the site and thought it matched my tastes in games.  Plus, in college one of my magazine projects was a mock magazine about technology and games for kids, and when I got out of college I was supposed to start writing for a game site for kids called Zgadz (which went under after the dot com bubble burst).  So I thought the GamerDad site would be a good fit for me to write for (after I was let go from The Dallas Morning News a year earlier), and I think I had my first review there in September of 2003.  So to celebrate the site’s 10^th Anniversary, here are some more game reviews I’ve written there lately.  Please click and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two!  Thanks a bunch!

Hey, have you ever heard of Bravoman?  It’s OK if you haven’t.  He’s a really obscure Namco video game character.  But I found out he recently got his own totally legit cartoon show.  Huh?  How did this happen?  Usually only the most popular of popular game characters get their own show.  So what’s the deal?  Read on to find out.

Well E3 has come and gone, and even though I didn’t get to go this year, I thought I’d still write a blog about the E3 news stories that interested me most.  But first, you’ll have to put up with a little rant from me on WHY I didn’t get to go to E3 this year.  Sorry.

Hey folks.  Just wanted to let you know that today I moved to a new town.  But don’t worry.  I’ve done this three times before.  Before I tell you about my first day in my new town, I thought I’d reminisce about the three towns I’ve lived in before.

This past weekend, I attended Project A-Kon with a few of my brothers.  A-Kon is a long-running anime convention in the Dallas area.  I did enough stuff there to consider it ‘blog-worthy’ so here are a few blurbs and things about the event!

All this past week at GamerDad.com, we’ve been celebrating Capcom’s 30^th Anniversary (way to make me feel old, Capcom) by featuring the games found in the downloadable Capcom Arcade Cabinet.  So here’s links to the reviews of games showcased each day, please click and read as many as you can and let me know what your favorite Capcom classic arcade games are in the comments section!

Here’s another list of links to game reviews I’ve done recently.  Please read and comment on as many as you can.  I’d really appreciate it.  But first, I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at what kinds of blogs you can expect from me this summer.  Granted, some of this may change or get added to, it’s all tentative.  Anyway, let’s get started!

In honor of the release of the upcoming new Star Trek movie, and my review of the new Star Trek game (posting later this week at GamerDad.com), here’s a list of my top five favorite Star Trek characters!