dragon age: origins

PLATFORM: PS3

RELEASE DATE: 11/2009

DEVELOPER: BioWare

PUBLISHER: EA

ESRB RATING: M

Progress: On my second playthrough

I have been growing my Dragon Age: Origins (DA:O) beard again this past weekend. This game is so long you have time to grow a few weekend-warrior-type beards with this fantasy based role playing game (RPG) released by EA. A blight is steering down on the the world of Ferelden. The Humans, Dwarves, Mages and Elven people are all threatened by hordes of Darkspawn. As one of the last remaining Grey Wardens you must unite the people in time to face the blight and the dreaded archdemon behind it.

netflix instant queue top picks

Finding movies on the Netflix Instant Queue hasn't gotten any easier, in fact after they redesigned the app, it is actually more difficult. I won't claim to know the reasons for this update but I do know that it is across all devices including the iOS devices. Another rather disturbing change is you can no longer request movies on disk via the app; that service is now exclusively on the web site. Is this the first step Netflix is taking to end the disks-by-mail business that they started with? My quest to bring you the movie gems I've discovered doesn't end! See my latest suggestions below the fold.

portal 2 by zoidberger

PLATFORM: PS3

RELEASE DATE: 04/2011

DEVELOPER: Valve Corporation

PUBLISHER: Valve Corporation

ESRB RATING: E10+

Progress: 100% Single Player, 65% Co-Op

I’ll be damned if a lack of baked goods from the first installment was going to stop me from playing the much anticipated sequel to one of the most beloved puzzle games of all time. I was a huge fan of the first-person physics-based puzzle game and had lofty expectations for the sequel. Portal 2 did what most sequels are unable to do with those expectations, surpass them.

teenage mutant ninja turtles:turtles in time re-shelled

PLATFORM: PSN
RELEASE DATE: 9/2009

PUBLISHER: Konami
ESRB RATING: E10+

Progress: Finished multiple times

Growing up, my family always had family friends. I think most do; parents that are friendly and they both have kids your same age - and you become friends because you are around each other a lot. My family and friends would go to Utah a lot on ski trips. Sometimes we would stay in the canyons but one year I specifically remember staying in Salt Lake City. I remember this vividly, mostly because there was a mall there with a huge arcade (remember those?). Now my memory may be a little off because I was a lot younger and shorter, and frankly the world looked different then. Click Read More to continue.