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Tag Archives: paste magazine
Shadows Over Innistrad Preview at Paste
Earlier today an piece went up where I nerded out about the vampires of Magic: The Gathering as a way of talking about some of the cool new cards in the cool new set Shadows Over Innistrad. Check it out.
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Far Cry Primal Essay at Paste
When we write about the past we’re always writing about the present. That writing can take a personal tone, showing how a person got to the place that they are through the person that they’ve been. Ben Carson stabs a … Continue reading
The Walking Dead: Michonne review at Paste
The Walking Dead: Michonne gives up all of the unique and interesting parts of the The Walking Dead adventure games in order to appeal to the television crowd, and it makes me sad. The formula is slightly different from top … Continue reading
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Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch
I went to the latest Pro Tour event, and you can read my write up of the event over at Paste.
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Oath of the Gatewatch’s Most Interesting Cards
I’ve been writing lists of the most interesting cards of the most recent Magic: The Gathering sets, and the articles are somewhere between useful and total frivolity. I just wrote another one about Oath of the Gatewatch. I’m literally writing about the … Continue reading
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How I Write About Magic: The Gathering
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of previewing some cards from Oath of the Gatewatch for Paste (if you haven’t seen that, it’s here). If you read the short blurbs I wrote about each card, you’ll notice that they don’t … Continue reading
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I write about baseball
I write an article called “Sportsman of the Year” for Paste, and I recently played MLB 15: The Show and wrote about it. Read it here.
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Review: Halo 5 at Paste
The things that are different are merely parasitical developments from other massive first-person shooter games of the contemporary period. You can do some boosting, which feels much likeAdvanced Warfare’s exo suit boosting. You can jump and climb onto something, which … Continue reading
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Until Dawn Review at Paste
“You make choices and the choices matter” has been the bugbear phrase of videogames for twenty years. Giving players narrative options that actually pan out into their own unique scenarios has been promised by many games, and when it has … Continue reading
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The Most Interesting Cards in Magic Origins
I wrote about the most interesting cards in Magic Origins for Paste. Like the Archangel of Tithes: This is an angel who flies around and generally makes your life more difficult. That’s the general tone of angels in Magic, so … Continue reading
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