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Overly Positive Thoughts: The Brand New Review Score

Overly Positive Thoughts: The Brand New Review Score

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 [...]

Posted in Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts | Tagged destructoid, game reviews, Overly Positive Thoughts, reviews | 2 Responses

Overly Positive Thoughts: The Considerate Facebook

Overly Positive Thoughts: The Considerate Facebook

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 | 5 Responses

Overly Positive Thoughts – Miyamoto Trumps Easy Mode

By Frank on June 25, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Over at the multiple author gaming blog site Multiplaying, there’s a post by Abberant about Nintendo patenting the “I Win” easy button – a system wherein designer ShigeruMiyamoto is going to have a mode that allows players to skip parts of the games that are too difficult for them to accomplish. Apparently, [...]

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Overly Positive Thoughts: Milo Marketing

By Frank on June 11, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Those of you who’ve been keeping up with the E3 news know that one of the highlights of Microsoft‘s Project Natal motion control was a demonstration by Peter Molyneux, now the director of Microsoft’s EU studios. In this demo, we got to meet Milo, a representation of a digital [...]

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