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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – May 28
Irish actor Glenn Quinn worked a variety of odd jobs in power plants and restaurants before becoming an actor. His early work consists of commercials for Pepsi and Ray-Ban, and he appeared in the music video for Richard Marx’s Satisfied. … Continue reading
Beer and Board Games: Drunk Mousetrap
Andrew Yonda returns to Beer and Board Games after a lengthy absence to play Mousetrap! Now, I hate to admit it, but I’ve never actually played Mousetrap. Like so many other people, I’d just set up the game and try … Continue reading
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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – May 27
The life of Christopher Lee is so impressive that it’s impossible to contain all of it within a single paragraph. For the sake of brevity, I’ve decided just list his accomplishments and some significant life events, rather than try to … Continue reading
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Dare To Enter The Cave
The Cave is the newest adventure game from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert and Double Fine Productions. This is one of those cases where I discover something that combines so many things that I love that I find myself at … Continue reading
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Video Game High School
Take it from me: you should be watching Freddie Wong’s new webseries Video Game High School! When it comes to awesome online entertainment, Freddie Wong always delivers the goods, and this series is nothing short of amazing. Great action, great … Continue reading
Street Fighter With Portals
Ever since MariO gave us the idea of putting the Portal gun into classic video games, all sorts of variations on that theme have been popping up. But few are as funny as this Street Fighter 2/Portal crossover (from thepixelkingdom, … Continue reading
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The Return of Tex Murphy
With the big Kickstarter video game boom resurrecting loads of old franchises, it’s no surprise that someone has finally gotten around to trying to bring everybody’s favourite future detective Tex Murphy back from the grave. But don’t take that to … Continue reading
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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – May 21
Fairuza Balk was born in 1974 to a founding member of the psychedelic rock group Kaleidoscope and a teacher of ethnic and traditional dance forms. The family moved to Vancouver when Balk was young, and it was there that she … Continue reading
The Art of the Instakill
Video game action badasses Corridor Digital have a new video out that, as usual, is jam-packed with video game-y, action-y fun! In this one, the guys explore the many one-hit kills of popular video games, fighting until a clear winner … Continue reading
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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – May 18
Oh yeah! That guy! Karel Roden is a Czech actor who has been active in film and television since the mid-1980s, but who has only made the transition from Czech cinema to North American cinema within the past twenty years. … Continue reading