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Fight Critic: Should fighters apologize for boring fights?

By Chi Kong Lui on May 11, 2007 - 1:32pm.
If you consider MMA to be an athletic competition, then you have to accept that coaches, trainers, and fighters do not strategize and plan on how to "beat the crap out of someone" or "take his head off." They strategize on how to achieve victory and, unfortunately, those goals don't always include knocking someone out or even finishing the fight.
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Dynasty Warriors + Gundam = Cool

By Chi Kong Lui on May 10, 2007 - 11:45am.
It's been a long time since anything has grabbed my attention and got my fanboy juices going, but the drought is over after Namco Bandai and Koei announced Dynasty Warriors: Gundam coming in late summer to the PS3 and Xbox 360.
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In defense of Nintendo and the myth of console shortages

By Chi Kong Lui on May 1, 2007 - 10:57am.
The point of business is to make money and it more or less boils down to a numbers game. Sell as many products as you can for the highest price the market will accept. From the perspective of a business owner/investor/stockholder, having media "buzz" and hype is gravy, but the idea that Nintendo would sacrifice substantial amounts of profit and market share in exchange for media "buzz" is foolish.
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Fight Critic: Upsets highlight changing MMA landscape

By Chi Kong Lui on April 25, 2007 - 9:34am.
Fans of the sport like to brag that what makes MMA so exciting is that "anything can happen," but even in the wildest dreams of hardcore MMA fans could not imagined have these radical outcomes.
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Nintendo doesn’t make games for hardcore gamers

By Chi Kong Lui on April 20, 2007 - 3:45pm.
Read blog postI know the title of this blog post is a little strange when you consider that Nintendo is notorious in the game industry for having the most loyal and rabid fans that regularly worship at the house of Super Mario and affectionately/annoyingly refer to Nintendo's game designer/producer/muse Shigeru Miyamoto as "Shiggy."
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Is “future-proof” PS3 worth the shortage?

By Chi Kong Lui on February 11, 2007 - 9:09am.
Read blog about PS3 ShortageWith the lack of demand for Blu-ray and the growing trend of making past generation titles available for download on virtual consoles-essentially making backwards compatible disc media unnecessary, was it worth the launch day pains that Sony put consumers through?
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Marketing 101: Hotel Dusk Room 215 on CBS.com

By Chi Kong Lui on January 28, 2007 - 9:42am.
"Touch Generations" may be a marketing term for Nintendo's attempt to broaden the base of people of videogames beyond, but it is refreshing to see a company put its money where its mouth is.
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New features of GameCritics.com 3.0

By Chi Kong Lui on January 6, 2007 - 12:51pm.
Welcome to the new GameCritics.com. This is a list of new features (for us anyway) to keep an eye out for.
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GameCritics.com changes with the times

By Chi Kong Lui on January 5, 2007 - 11:34am.
It's finally here (removes shrink-wrap from website). Drum roll please... I'm proud to unveil the new redesign of GameCritics.com. For those who have been keeping track, this is actually the third version of the site since it debuted seven years ago on July of 1999.
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