Best of the Rest: Dave’s Picks of 2010
The following originally appeared on Joystiq, the site I write for. It is reprinted here in its entirety.
1 vs 100
This summer, something terrible happened: Microsoft canned 1 vs 100, its experiment in live trivia gaming. With two seasons under its belt, I became quite enamored with the free game. Honestly, my Tuesday and Friday nights will never feel the same again. Also, it's sad I'll likely never get to use the above image in a post on Joystiq again.
StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty Beta impressions at Joystiq
I've been playing the stuff out of the StarCraft 2 beta and managed to plug some of my thoughts on it into that Joystiq.com webspace site. Here's an excerpt:
Here's the thing about the StarCraft II beta: you've played this game before. In the time I've spent with the beta over the past 24-plus hours, I've been Zerg rushed, I've had my buildings annihilated by a group of Reapers that snuck through the back of my fortified area, and I've had Protoss ships lay waste to countless heavy Thor units -- which looked like they could have taken on anything and survived. And here's the other thing: I absolutely loved every minute of it, as familiar as it was.
Head on over and give it a read! That's not, like, an order or anything -- unless you want it to be or whatever.
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