By Frank on November 12, 2009
Over at Destructoid, there’s a particularly great and meaningful article up by Jim Sterling about how to respond properly to a video game review. If you haven’t read it yet, feel free to go do so prior to coming back around to hear about today’s dose of sunshine. A couple of the tips involved: claim [...]
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By Frank on November 5, 2009
So it seems that the love affair with the Wii might be coming to a bit of a close. According to the NY Daily News, it seems that sales for the Wii are down, as are profits for Nintendo. In fact, of all consoles, the perpetually third Sony has leapfrogged into first with their lower [...]
Posted in Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts | Tagged Gaming, Nintendo, wii
By Frank on October 29, 2009
So I couldn’t help but notice the other day that among the ninja changes that usually happen on Facebook was one in which the social networking app tries to be just a little bit more helpful and considerate towards the friends you have on your list. Some of the suggestions it makes include getting people [...]
Posted in Internet, Overly Positive Thoughts, Social Geekery | Tagged facebook, Overly Positive Thoughts
By Frank on October 8, 2009
Oh man – sure, I date myself just by referring to this particular album, but here at Overly Positive, we’ve never been ashamed to admitting to having knowledge of some great tune of the past – and the one on the right is one of them. Respect, my dear readers.
Speaking of respect, today we’re going [...]
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By Frank on September 17, 2009
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Today I had to save myself from commenting until Overly Positive Thoughts on Thursday for an interesting little newsbit that came from Destructoid via Gamespot about Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick’s comments about the kind of working environment he likes to inspire. Sure, he was talking to investors – the kind of cheerful [...]
Posted in Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts | Tagged Activision, blizzard, Gaming, Robert Kotick
By Frank on September 10, 2009
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So I’m a day late with this one, but I think this bit of news deserved a spot in Thursday’s wonderful Overly Positive Thoughts.
For those not in the know about Fisher Price guitars, Beatles: Rock Band came out yesterday on the auspicious and appropriately alliterative date of 9/9/09. A lot [...]
Posted in Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts | Tagged Beatles, Music, Rock Band
By Frank on September 3, 2009
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The indomitable Jim Sterling from Destructoid dropped in an article talking about some curious comments that came through from Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. Apparently, Tomino isn’t too fond of games, saying that they are horribly “unproductive”, “waste electricity”, and are “assisting in the death of our planet”.
Now I liked Gundam as much as [...]
Posted in Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts | Tagged games, Gundam
By Frank on August 27, 2009
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Someone must have put something into the water supply today, because it sure seems that bloggers everywhere along my blogroll are looking to score some extra comments and grab some attention. Syncaine talks about becoming big time. Ysharros talks about cheese. Ardua follows it up with American pie hate. Syp just [...]
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By Frank on August 20, 2009
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So today is another day in the scientific quest to figure out geeks and gamers, and a study coming from the CDC, Emory University, and Andrews University throws in their two cents by coming to the conclusion that the average gamer is 35, overweight, and depressed. The survey was compiled using a random [...]
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By Frank on August 13, 2009
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Today I’ve got a message of hope – as delivering hope and sunny optimism is a core function of this here blog – for all of you players out there of “New-Out-Of-Box” skill level. That’s right – it’s time to make the noobs feel better.
Are you the one who charges right ahead of [...]
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