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My buddy just got Borderlands 2 and I watch him play it every time I'm over there. I'm tempted to pick it up myself to keep up with him and maybe play some co-op.

I still need to play Paradise. I played the demo and it didn't hit me, but I took a second look earlier this year and I think I ought to give it another shot. 

I was just looking at the Disney and Skylanders characters at BestBuy today. I really want the Disney figures to be cool, and the Wreck-It Ralph figure is pretty cool, but when I turned to look at the Skylanders figures I was completely taken in. Each one really does have a lot of expression and humor about them. They're also really colorful and detailed. And it's great that all of them can be put into any of the games (at least I think that's true). They really did it right. Someone tell Disney to just copy that and I'd be on board because it would be awesome to play as Wall-E or the dogs from UP or magician Mickey from Fantasia and have a figure to boot.

Awe darn. Venture Bros was my favorite show for a while there.

I'm seeing an Angry Birds, Portal and World of Goo mash up in this. Cool!

I still have to play Bowser's Inside Story. I bought it this year, so I'm ready to go.

As graphics get better and better the nakedness in games is going to really stand out. I don't know if it's just me being prudish or what, but staring at a pretty much naked body for hours on end, like in Halo 4, just starts to annoy me after a while. "I'm trying to play a game, stop distracting me!" I hear myself saying. If I was playing with a woman in the room, I'd feel like I had to appologize for the game since it is clearly tying to make a cheap grab for the attention of male gamers. I mean, how nerdy and pathetic would I look shooting things and staring at a naked female for hours on end.

I'm loving it. It's great.

Tablets are super cool and they're great for kids. My neice has one in a pink cover and she carries it everywhere.

I think it's the humor that made me fall for the Mario & Lugi games. It's also the battle system where it's turn-based but you have timed button presses to do as well.

I heard that one of the reasons Microsoft went into gaming with the Xbox was to get kids interested in computers and raise up a new crop of programmers to replace all those guys who started at the beginning of the company and who are now starting to retire. Lots of programmers started out their interest in computers through games and Microsoft knows that.

I just thought of a game that has canopies. Donkey Kong Country. Sometimes you hop from tree top to tree top.

I really want to go to conventions but they always cost something and that always keeps me away. I would love to go to PAX East in Boston and then hit Funspot just a few hours away in New Hampshire. One day.

Jared Diamond doesn't explicitly attack video games but he suggests it contributes to kids being sendentary and that it's a factor in some of them getting diabeties. I mean, he has a point. My brother-in-law carefully monitors how much his kids play video games and tries to have them do other things too like Cub Scouts, Martial Arts and Dance classes so they don't sit in front of the TV all the time. I think you have to look at the adicitive quallity of some games and not get too caught up in it all or let your kids, if you have some - I don't, get too carried away. I must have a natural immunity to it though because I usually stop a game that becomes too much of a adiction for me.