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A new comic strip about video gamers
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Birds poop in mysterious ways

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Summary:
A jRPG that jettisons swords and dragons to keep a fresher, more modern setting on board.
Genre: RPG
Setting: The fictional town of Inaba, Japan 2011.
Systems: PS2
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Well, gang, looks like we have another mystery on our hands.
Welcome to Persona 4. The basic story here is nothing we haven't seen before in some form. Our nameless, silent protagonist is a second-year high school student from the city who transfers out to a quiet, rural town where nothing exciting ever happens - oh, wait, until now. People in town start getting kidnapped and (eventually) murdered. The protagonist and his misfit gang of friends decide to take it upon themselves to solve the mystery since the police are, of course, hilariously inept. Standard.
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Random musings, sporadic ruminations and
haphazard ponderings on the subject of video gaming...
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Now that E3 has come and gone, and the gaming buzz is starting to settle back down to its usual levels, it's time to grab a cup of coffee and do some even-tempered analytical thinking about the show's biggest announcements: Microsoft's Natal and Sony's Motion Controller. (Just in case you spent the beginning of June under a rock, Microsoft and Sony both announced new game control technologies based on full body video capture.) What can these technologies really do? Who will they benefit? How will they change the face of gaming? What are the two companies really after? Let's take a closer look at these seemingly simple questions and see if we can't glean some truths that lay not on top, but rather below the surface.
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