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May 2013

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Testing to make sure the "Read More" feature really works.

lexigeek:

I want to post something with spoilers. I don’t want to spoil anyone. I’ve never used the “read more” feature. Does it really work?

Read More

Not on the iPhone app, sadly.

May 19, 201311 notes
May 17, 2013881 notes
#metal gear #metal gear solid

April 2013

1 post

Play
Apr 25, 20136 notes
#portscenter #lucasarts #monkey island #zak mckracken #maniac mansion

March 2013

4 posts

Play
Mar 27, 20137 notes
#donkey kong country #super nintendo #game boy color #donkey kong #portscenter
Mar 17, 2013151 notes
#NES #nintendo #arcade
Mar 13, 2013203,415 notes
#gaming #playstation 2
Mar 2, 20133 notes
#xbox 360 #xbox live games on demand #microsoft

February 2013

3 posts

Feb 15, 20135 notes
#domino's pizza #social justice #tumblr
Feb 12, 2013138 notes
#super mario #super mario advance 4
Play
Feb 4, 201321 notes
#portscenter #resident evil #resident evil 2 #capcom #nintendo 64

December 2012

1 post

Play
Dec 12, 20123 notes
#portscenter #q & a #qhistmas #yes I did spell christmas (or qhristmas) incorrectly on purpose

November 2012

8 posts

Nov 29, 201246 notes
#Raphael #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #TMNT #Wreck-It Ralph #WRONG
Nov 29, 201237 notes
#earthworm jim #shint entertainment #gaming #videogames #classic #doug tenasshole #evil the cat
Nov 27, 201232,523 notes
#super mario 64 #penguins
Nov 27, 20123,494 notes
#bioshock #steamboat willie #disney
Nov 27, 201229 notes
#the sims #the sims 3 #ea games #steam
Nov 11, 2012887 notes
#new super mario bros. #super mario bros. #paper mario #mario
Nov 5, 20122 notes
#a1200 #amiga #amiga 1200
When the PortsCenter Facebook page reaches 100 Likes, we'll reveal the full list of games we intend to cover for the first season → facebook.com

benpaddon:

We’ve already revealed a couple of titles - Worms and Resident Evil, for instance - but there are a lot of games we intend to look at over the first season of 13 ten-minute episodes, and we’ll tell you all of them once the PortsCenter Facebook page has 100+ Likes.

Step to it, primates!

Nov 3, 20123 notes
#portscenter #ben paddon #retrogaming #gaming #worms #resident evil

October 2012

3 posts

Your Xbox, Their Dashboard

I don’t like my Xbox anymore.

If you’d asked me how I felt about it as recently as three months ago, I might have said differently. Most if not all of my favorite games of this generation have been on the 360, although its interesting to note that nearly none of them have been 360 exclusives.

But recently I found myself turning on my PS3 and, for the first time in over a year, using it to play games. For the first time, the XMB menu system - a menu I’d found cold and impersonal when I’d bought the console in 2007 - seemed warm and inviting.

Unlike Microsoft, Sony haven’t been taking more and more screen space to advertise games, or movies, or services, or more games. Unlike Microsofy, Sony’s online marketplace is actually usable, and while it’s not perfect I can, at the least, use it to find what I’m looking for. Perhaps more importantly, I can also use it to make discoveries; to find new games I might have otherwise missed or overlooked.

In recent years I’ve become increasingly aware of the fact that my Xbox 360 Dashboard isn’t mine. Not anymore. It’s Microsoft’s - it’s their space, their cork notice board where they’ll pin poorly-xerox’d notices informing me of all manner of products and services, many of which aren’t actually relevant to me (a side-effect of continuing to use my UK Xbox Live account after moving to the US, and something Microsoft have made very clear they have no intention of fixing). The console lets you choose your own theme, your own dashboard wallpaper, but with all the clutter and advertising in the way now you can’t see it. They may as well strip that customization out entirely.

In the last two months I’ve bought a handful of new games. Not a lot, mind, and certainly no new new games, but I’ve bought some. I’ve found myself buying the PS3 version over the 360 almost every single time. The only exception to that rule has been Rock Band Blitz, mostly because I’ve already got in excess of 800 songs for Rock Band on the 360, and it’s far too late to jump ship now.

The PlayStation isn’t perfect, of course. I still hate that controller, and the PSN Store doesn’t have any in-game integration, near as I can tell, forcing games to quit if I decide to investigate DLC options. But those two complaints aside, I feel far more welcome on my PS3 right now than I do on the 360. I feel like Sony wants me to stick around.

Microsoft, on the other hand, just wants me to spend my money with them. They’re pushy and desperate, and just a little bit abusive. Also their friends are raging homophobic racists. I’m not sure we can be together anymore.

Which is a shame.

Oct 23, 201215 notes
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