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2011 Honorable Mentions: Spencer’s List

January 18, 2012 - 9:00 am

Tags: Atom Zombie Smasher, Iron Brigade, Orcs Must Die, The Stanley Parable, Trenched
Posted in Features, Silicon Sasquatch Lists | 1 comment

Spencer’s up next with his other favorites from last year.

Pen Over Pixel I: An Admission

October 30, 2011 - 5:30 pm

Tags: Crimson Skies, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, pen and paper, role-playing game, RPG, Shadowrun, Vampire, Vampire: the Masquerade, White Wolf
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In the past, I have been open to admit my less-than-mainstream gaming habits. A PC cultist, an enduring fan of the nearly-dead “flight simulator” and “urban management” genres, my tastes are archaic on a good day, and persistently arcane. However, today, I’d like to discuss a form of gaming that has not appeared, to my [...]

2010 Honorable Mentions: Spencer’s List

January 17, 2011 - 12:41 pm

Tags: 2010 Honorable Mentions, Costume Quest, Flotilla, Game of the Year 2010, GOTY 2010, Scott Pilgrim, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, WoW, WoW: Cataclysm, X-Men
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I gave this list considerable thought previously, but for myriad reasons, it was pushed back until now. Regardless, here it is, albeit a couple weeks into the new year. In honesty, most of what I wanted to see in the top ten made it there, so this is very much a “best of the rest” [...]

Silicon Sasquatch’s Honorable Mentions of 2009: Spencer’s picks

December 28, 2009 - 2:00 pm

Tags: 2009 Honorable Mentions, Brütal Legend, Double Fine, Gratuitous Space Battles, Killing Floor, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment, Team Fortress 2, Volition
Posted in Silicon Sasquatch Lists | 2 comments

While our Top 10 Games of 2009 deserve attention for their overall excellence, we can’t neglect this year’s remaining deluge of fantastic games — titles that just missed the final cut. Be it their charm, gameplay or presentation, our Honorable Mentions were simply hard to forget. We now present part two of a five-part series [...]

Double Take: another look at Modern Warfare 2

December 16, 2009 - 2:00 pm

Tags: Activision, Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Editorials, Infinity Ward, MW2
Posted in Editorials | 12 comments

Editor’s note: Frequent Silicon Sasquatch podcast guest (and PC enthusiast) Spencer Tordoff has more than a few things to say about his experiences with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. With our review now live, we felt his commentary would be the perfectly compressed chaser to our long-winded critique. I’d like to preface this by [...]