Great battery life has always been a hallmark of Nintendo hand-held systems. The Gameboy, Gameboy Advance and the DS all outpaced their competition by a wide margin. The DSI XL for instance, has a battery life It made it good to know that you won’t have to constantly keep it in the charger or swap batteries every time you wanted to take it on the go.
Then came the Nintendo 3DS.
I hope your holidays were filled with great times, great food and great gaming. I had the time to play a ton of stuff during the break, including a bunch of games I received for Christmas. Did Santa hook you up with any gaming stuff this year? I’d love to hear about the games experiences you had during the holidays.
Expect to see a lot of reviews and impressions posts on In Third Person starting tomorrow, when I’ll tackle Kinect Adventures. Till then, here’s to hoping 2011 will be another awesome year for video games!
I know the year is just a few days old, but it’s not too early to think about the upcoming games of 2011. I’ve read through a number of different lists of most anticipated games of 2011 and this year is looking like another great year from beginning to end. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Mass Effect 3 and a lot of the Nintendo 3DS stuff, just to name a few things off the top of my head.
The hype train for Dead Space 2 has been gradually building for the past year or so. While the original game got off to a slow sales start, it eventually sold really well and won a lot of people over. I for one gave the game a shot around this time last year and was very impressed. Almost too impressed in a way. You see, that game was so good at being scary that I couldn’t handle the fear anymore.
Do you do the New Year Resolution thing? Is this the day when you tell yourself that you’re going to stop smoking, exercise or address some form of personal fault? The reason that I ask is that I generally shy away from making any New Year Resolutions. I’m of the mindset that if you really wanted to change something about yourself, you wouldn’t need something as arbitrary as a new calendar to make it happen. If you’ve made New Year Resolutions work in the past, then ignore my hate and continue doing what you do.
Out of curiosity, would you happen to have a New Year Resolution for 2011? Maybe one related to gaming? I do.
2010 has been a monumental year for In Third Person. To be fair, it’s not hard to have a monumental year when you’ve only been around for two years, but I digress. In 2010, I moved the site from Blogger to WordPress, and In Third Person was featured on the WordPress.com home page. These two moves turned this pet project that nobody visited into a site that draws thousands of visits a month. I’ve worked on a number of different personal social media projects since 2003, and this by far has been the most successful.
Before I say goodbye to 2010, I wanted to wrap up this year by spotlighting the top 5 In Third Person Posts of 2010. Click through to see what were the most popular In Third Person posts of the year.
As much as I like to think of this of this site as a personal project, I’m super thankful to you, the readers, for discovering and sticking with In Third Person. It’s cool to know that people are finding this site, enjoying the content and leaving some awesome comments. I would continue posting no matter what, but the positive response I’ve received to the site is what motivates me to post every day.
With that said, I’m fairly certain you didn’t get a chance to see everything In Third Person has to offer for one reason or another, which is cool. Whether you want to catch up or not is your call, which is also cool. However, if you’re interested in catching up on some back catalogue content, may I suggest the following posts?
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Game of the Year lists are a dime a dozen. You can’t throw a rock without hitting five different game of the year lists from any gaming website, message board or blog. If you’re hardcore enough about video games to follow my blog, you’re probably already checking out the Game of the Year coverage from major sites like IGN and Gamespot. From a gamer’s perspective, I don’t expect we’ll see any major surprises cause we all sort of have the same view.
Time Magazine as a publication is pretty far from the gaming zeitgeist. They usually have more pressing world issues to cover. However, they’ve been producing top 10 lists for video games since 2007, which is a great step towards gaming acceptance among the masses. Does their top 10 have any interesting picks? Do they have their ear to the streets when it comes to hardcore gaming? Or is this a list another example of people who just don’t get it?
Canadian shoppers rejoice! Boxing Day is here, which is the Canadian equivalent of Black Friday (even though we have Black Friday up here now too). If you’re not reading this from a Best Buy or Futureshop lineup at the time of this posting, you may already be too late to score a door-crasher deal at either of those stores. However, most retailers won’t have swarms of customers lining up around them and most won’t be busy until noon today, when people have recovered from a day of Christmas partying. On top of that, it’s still prime time to shop online.
If you’re looking for some quick resources to help you coordinate your plan of attack, click through to see the rest of this post!
Christmas is here! Considering the fact that most people (including myself) are busy celebrating the birth of Jesus (or at least enjoying the day off), I will not be have anything major to contribute today as far as video games go.
I just wanted to chime in and say Merry Christmas, happy holidays and all that other good stuff. Now go spend your time away from In Third Person by doing more important stuff, like spending time with your family or playing all the sweet new video games you received from Santa this year.
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