I'm a gamer, and voracious reader. I love stories of all kinds, except Twilight, and will partake in any meal subsisting of any type of medium.
Raised in the Pacific Northwest and an avid admirer of Japanese culture and language.
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Game Review- Call of Duty Modern Warfare II (Multiplayer)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is finally here, and lots of gamers are lining up to play with both the single player campaign and the multiplayer battlefields. We are splitting our review for this title up into two parts: multiplayer and the single player campaign. First up, we drop our reviewer Michael Blaker into the fierce multiplayer combat.
Movie Monday is a column by Michael Blaker covering movies from the past. This week, he takes a look at a film from 2003 called Big Fish, and it features an all-star cast that includes Ewan McGregor and Billy Crudup.
Michael Blaker is back with his Translation Necessary Thursday column. This week, he covers the book “My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 01” by Tamamaru.
After eight long years in development, the Dual Universe MMO has finally been launched. And while traditional MMO gameplay elements like questing are largely absent from the game, Dual Universe presents almost unlimited opportunities for crafters.
Bookish Wednesday is a column by Michael Blaker covering various novels. This week he looks at “Marked in Flesh,” the fourth book in The Others series by Anne Bishop.
Michael Blaker is back with more great fan fiction for his Synth Saturday column. This time, he’s continuing with more of the chapters in one of his favorite Fics with Chapters 16-20 of “New Battlefield” by operation.meteor!
For this week’s Video Game Tuesday column, Michael Blaker looks at exclusive content only given to certain console or PC players and asks if it really is an enticement to buy games for certain platforms.
It’s creeping ever closer to Halloween, so we are ramping up our coverage of games with a spooky twist. The Darkest Tales falls into that category perfectly as a Metroid-like hack-and-slasher title featuring dark takes on popular fairy tales and a teddy bear hero with attitude.