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Category: Just starting

PSA: South Park: The Stick of Truth is Out Today!

Sure, you have to be a fan of South Park to fully appreciate this game, but Chris and I have been waiting a LONG time for it to finally be released. Chris has his copy installed from Steam and Amazon is delivering my copy today, however we will need to wait to finish our current
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March 4, 2014
PS3 Beta Started: Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn

There isn’t a lot that can be said about the Beta at this time, due to T&C restrictions, but I can say that when I got my code on the 14th I was genuinely excited (and still am). Once the Beta goes Public in July, and the restrictions are lifted, I’ll post a good write-up
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June 17, 2013
Defiance Beta Impressions

As reported earlier this week, the Defiance Beta has made it’s way to Plus subscribers and I’ve had a little bit of time to play around with the 3PSMMORPG. I’ll continue to update over the next week but I will start with one big take away, I’m not immediately impressed. Complaints and gripes stem from
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March 21, 2013
Pardon Our Dust.

For the next day or so we should be doing some major over hauls on the website. So if something doesn’t work or doesn’t look right dont worry its not you….mostly. Anyway hopefully you all will like the new look and style that is soon to come. Any feed back is always welcomed and if
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March 12, 2013
Planetside 2 Live Streaming

Planetside 2 is FINALLY out! So far it has been nothing short of amazing (despite the launch hiccups). Not sure if free is for you? Well I’ll be live streaming the game, so you can watch me kill, heal, revive, and die (especially that last one) over at twitch.tv/clownphoenix. I’ll be live streaming for another
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November 21, 2012
Crowd Funding Round-Up

Crowd funding websites like Kickstarter are a great way for a game to get funded, especially with publishers liking to play it safe, and stick with sequels. It allows gamers to have a voice, putting their dollars directly into the development of the games they want to play. Industry vets and up and coming indies
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October 19, 2012
Introducing the newest member of the IBIF family…

That’s right, my son has quite possibly the coolest name in the world: Ronin Xander Van Kirk. Ronin was born 3 weeks ago and has been taking up almost all of my time. I will certainly do my best to keep you guys up to date on all of the latest news and gaming reviews
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July 17, 2012
PSA: You can now officially play FF3 ANYWHERE!

Sorry for the Hiatus folks but the arrival of my new baby boy has pulled away a lot of my time (post coming momentarily). In the meantime, I have picked up the DS port of FF3 on my Android Tablet and am so far impressed with the presentation. FF3 (or just FF in the states, lol)
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July 17, 2012
First Impressions: Ratchet and Clank All For One

So, I’ve just started playing the new R&C game and it seems pretty promising. If you don’t already know, this is pretty much like any other R&C platforming game with the exception that it is now a 4 player game, playable on the same screen or online. This brings the inherent problem in to perspective;
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December 8, 2011
Why life sucks when your PS3 dies and Playstation+ is actually worth the money!

Ok, so I’ve been on the anti-PS+ side of the fence for quite a while, but a series of events has lined up to convert me to actually finding the service worthwhile. about 3-4 weeks ago I had the extremely unfortunate luck to have original PS3 die, almost exactly 5 years to the day of
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November 30, 2011