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The Backlog: Speed Kills Edition

Fast in the rain, just like Portland traffic in November

We’re all fast this week. Like Goose and Maverick, we’ve all got the need for speed — Nick’s taken a quick trip down to Los Angeles, Aaron’s gotten through Fable 3 so fast it made our heads spin, and Doug is still strapping on the helmet and racing cars.

We’re going too fast to post more of an introduction, so let’s get on to the Backlog.

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The Backlog: Better Late Than Later edition

Last week’s post, which was intended for Friday, had to be re-appropriated by our crack team of internet henchmen at this tardy hour, and even though it’s late it’s fashionably so. In fact, it’s so fashionably late, Tim Gunn would be proud.

He’s from Project Runway.

Why do I know that?

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The Backlog: Sandbox of Chaos edition

I kinda got carried away with Photoshop this week. You see, Rico Rodriguez, the protagonist from the Just Cause games, is chaotically belly-flopping into a child’s sandbox, which serves a visual metaphor for the open-world adventures he stars in. Hence the headline.

With that out of the way, I can tell you this edition of our beloved (by some — maybe our mothers) Backlog pertains to Nick’s first aural experiencing of Axis: Bold as Love, Doug’s dusting off of the old Xbox after his adventures in Asia and my unbelieving satisfaction from playing a ton of Just Cause 2.

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