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		<title>Memories of Wing Commander</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There aren&#8217;t many things from my youth that I truly miss, but one of the members of that elite group is the space combat flight simulator game. Once quite common, they are all but unknown &#8230;]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I had the bad timing to become a console RPG fan at the dawn of the 1990s. This was originally due to a promotional gimmick run by Nintendo Power magazine in which they gave away &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Setting the mood: Mass Effect 3 Take Earth Back trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bioware recently put out a new trailer for Mass Effect 3, entitled &#8220;Take Earth Back.&#8221; I quite liked it, and it&#8217;s a nice example of how a trailer like this can be effective that&#8217;s worth &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mass Effect 3: Multiplayer that actually interests me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not typically a fan of online multiplayer modes in games. I&#8217;m not suited for it; I&#8217;m generally not very competitive, not very social, and I just find a well-designed single player scenario much more &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts on Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Final Fantasy XIII -2 from Square Enix is coming out at the end of this month, continuing the story of Lightning and the other characters from Final Fantasy XIII and the world they inhabit. And &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>RPGs I never got to play: The 16-bit era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last time, we had a look at a few of the 8-bit Japanese role-playing games that, due to the cruel realities of the 1980s video game market, never made it to America. Sadly, the dawning &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Revival of Classic 2-D Action Games</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Markley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the less appreciated benefits of the ubiquitous online connections in the current generation of consoles is that it has helped to resuscitate some types of classic gameplay that had all but vanished over &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For reasons I cannot adequately explain, even to myself, I prefer to read fantasy over science fiction, but I prefer SF movies over fantasy.&#160; So I don&#8217;t actually read a lot of true science fiction &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saturn Returns by Sean Williams Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Markley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sean Williams is an experienced author in the field of space opera, having written the Evergence, Orphans, and Geodesica series’ with collaborator Shane Dix.&#160; Saturn Returns is the first book of Williams’ solo Astropolis trilogy. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sly Mongoose by Tobias Buckell Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Markley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sly Mongoose is the third novel of Tobias Buckell. It is part of the same future history as its predecessors Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, but it is a self-contained story that can be read on &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deepsix by Jack McDevitt Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Markley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 22:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deepsix is the second novel in Jack McDevitt’s “Academy” series, which can be described as mostly-hard science fiction with a few exceptions like faster-than-light travel included out of narrative necessity. However, while it has the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven, Edward M Lerner &#8211; Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Markley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Fleet of Worlds” is part of Larry Niven’s Known Space future history best known as the setting of the Ringworld books. However, while it utilizes characters and settings from other Known Space books, extensive knowledge &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Neal Asher Interview and The Skinner Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Markley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Combining large-scale space opera, intense, visceral action, and occasional elements of horror, Neal Asher is one of the most exciting authors to come out of the United Kingdom in recent years. Born in England in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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