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It's no surprise my list is populated with licensed titles.

My “Don't Gift!” list consists only of titles I've personally played this year, but more to the point, they're games that might just appeal to Christmas shoppers at first glance. In truth, most of the games I mention do have an audience who would enjoy them, but I believe the games don't have the universal appeal that would make them a great gift for most. Most of the games I chose are licensed titles, based on graphic novels, movies, famous characters, and even theme park rides for good reason: These are often the games of disputable quality where other games are unquestionably better.

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20,000 words. 121 Starites. 60 Merits. 50 avatars. One game.

During my playthrough of Super Scribblenauts, I summoned 1582 objects and customized them with 430 adjectives or adverbs, or whatever one might call general descriptive words. Which words do I remember? Micro, tiny, massive, bridge, jetpack, wings, cat, mouse. To save space, allow me to say there's approximately fifty more, a hundred at the most. Why is it that in Super Scribblenauts, I can express a diverse vocabulary, but at most, only about 1/20th stand out?

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In this PB & Jason, we celebrate our twelfth issue! Hooray!

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Tonight, GameStop will be opening early, for a limited time. Click through to find out why.

Come 10 PM tonight at GameStop, you'll be able to earn a medal for serenading and dancing with transparent animals, all in order to gun down Maxwell. Or something like that.

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