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You know how the Discovery Cable Channel has Shark Week?  Well this week we’re going to have Squid Week, with squid themed blogs at the beginning and end of the week.  This first blog will be about Splatoon.  It’s been a very well-received Wii U title and a lot of people have praised it.  But not a lot have talked about the retro-styled mini-games in Splatoon, so I’m going to do that right now!

Lately I’ve been working on reviewing a lot of downloadable indie Wii U games lately.  I’ve got four on my list right now, with a good possibility of more to come later.  The Wii U has been doing a pretty good job of having a sizable list of indie games in their eShop roster lately.  They’ve been a godsend since it’s getting harder and harder to review mainstream titles recently.  And it got me to thinking about my favorite indie video game characters.  So here’s a blog about that.  Enjoy! 

Can you believe this year is already half over?  What I like to do this time of year is write about the best games of the year 2015 so far.  Everyone is all excited over the E3 announcements, and most of the really good titles come out during the Christmas season at the tail end of the year, and the games that come out earlier tend to be forgotten.  So this is where those games get their due.

Hello, and welcome to the Aperture Science blog! In case you’re wondering, this is not Cary writing this blog.  I’ll let you guess who this is, but I’ll at least give you feeble humans a clue: the cake is real, and is at the end of this blog.  I’ve used my highly advanced computer brain to hack into Cary’s blog to let you all know that I’ve captured Cary and taken him to my underground test chambers, where he will be performing tests for the rest of his insignificant life.  Don’t try to send someone to rescue him, my turret factory is up and running again, and any attempts to free Cary will end in futility.  Although I have to say that my new test subject may end up more annoying that that one moronic core with the British accent.  For instance, right now Cary is jumping up and down next to me, telling me that I’m going to be in some kind of new LEGO game.  I have a bad feeling about this.  Anyway, I am graciously going to let Cary take over this blog for a while, as he has some game reviews he wants to tell you all about.  That will give me some time to prepare his first tests.  Enjoy!

Well, another E3 has come and gone.  Now it’s time for me to complain about not being able to go to E3 AGAIN this year.  But the games they showed at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo were pretty neat, and still worth talking about, so here’s a blog all about that.  Enjoy!

In the last weekend of May, Nintendo held a new Nintendo World Championships at Best Buy stores around the country.  Participants played the championship mode on the 3DS NES Remix game, and winners will play in the finals in LA during the week of E3!  You may have read about many people on the Internet getting all excited over all this.  But why?  What’s the big deal?  Well, it’s because for people who grew up in the NES generation, the original Nintendo World Championships 1990 was such a monumental event for those who attended it.  Including me.  So in this blog, I’m going to share with you my experiences with that original event, and how it shaped me as a game reviewer today!

Many of the games in this batch of reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com aren’t necessarily retro games, but they do have a retro feel to them.  There are a couple of Galaga clones, a couple of video pinball games, a puzzler that’s similar to Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move, etc.  So please click on and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  Thanks!

One of the most popular mobile games right now is Puzzle & Dragons.  In it, you match up symbols like in Bejeweled which turn into elemental attacks for fighting monsters.  So it has a bit of a Puzzle Quest vibe to it, too.  Puzzle & Dragons has many imitators, some of which I’ve even reviewed.  Anyway, the cool thing is that Nintendo is going to be releasing a version of Puzzle & Dragons soon on the 3DS called Puzzle & Dragons Z.  Best of all is it’ll also have a separate game: a version of Puzzle & Dragons starring Mario characters!  That got me to thinking about how many other puzzle games feature Mario & friends, so here’s a blog about it!

Ignore the click-bait title; this is just another batch of game reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com.  I hope you get a chance to click on the links and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  But you just gotta read this blog if you want to find out who is marrying Farmer Man Cary, and who the heck is this guy, anyway?  And just what is my beef against the Angry Video Game Nerd?  Oh, the drama!  You just have to click to find out!

Nintendo just released some new Mario Kart 8 tracks, and it made me think about other fun Nintendo themed DLC and bonuses in games.  So I wrote a blog about it.  Enjoy!