Author Archives: Brandon

Celebrating Microsoft’s Failures

I’ve been a victim of it, and if you own an XBOX360, there’s a 23.7% (according to SquareTrade [PDF]) chance you have been too. You can now celebrate Microsoft’s ultimate failure by proudly wearing this shirt from ThinkGeek.

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EA Gets You Active

I’ll be the first one to admit that the years of taco Tuesday, pizza and soda have taken their toll on my once finely tuned body. By personal choice, whenever I unplug, I hang out with my wife and kids. This scenario doesn’t leave a lot of time for working out. I’m not big on [...]

FAT (not p.h.a.t.) Princess

I picked up this little gem off of Aaron’s recommendation (with a name like FAT PRINCESS, how can you pass it up?). Once I picked it up, I couldn’t get that cake-eating princess out of my mind. While the single player story mode is fun and the dialog is nice, this game really shines when [...]

Daves Joins the AGB Ranks

On behalf of the rest of us here at AGB, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest writer, Daves. He’s got an eclectic mix of consoles on hand so there’s a good chance that if you’ve been playing video games for a while, he’s probably played at least one of your favorite [...]

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The Not-So-Secret, Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

When I heard this game was coming out with “high-definition graphics” and was “all-new and re-imagined” I couldn’t have been more pumped up. I loved the Monkey Island™ series when it was originally released for its amazing (and sometimes near impossible) puzzles. When I downloaded it to my game library though, I couldn’t have been [...]

AGB Now On Twitter

It’s been a whirlwind ever since we launched this site yesterday. Communications have been flying around all over the place trying to coordinate our efforts. One of the topics on hand was how we were going to be handling our brand spankin’ new Twitter account. YES! Awesome Game Blog is now on Twitter. Give us [...]

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Insert Coin…

As all blogs start up, the writers are plagued with the daunting task of writing the first post. Most people leave the standard “Hello World” up to the blog software’s default content. Being a video game site, we thought it would be appropriate to change it up a little and start with a more familiar [...]

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