Game Havens – BreakmanX.com https://www.breakmanx.com Twenty Years of Gaming. Still Arguing About Halo. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:47:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.breakmanx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-Favicon-32x32.webp Game Havens – BreakmanX.com https://www.breakmanx.com 32 32 Game Havens: Joystixx, Las Vegas https://www.breakmanx.com/game-havens-joystixx-las-vegas/ https://www.breakmanx.com/game-havens-joystixx-las-vegas/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:51:45 +0000 http://padinga.com/?p=12480 And now, I come to a delimma, one which this series, still so young, has not yet faced: if a ‘Game Haven’ sucks, is it still a ‘Haven’? Yes, Joystixx is about to get a bad review. I should issue forth this caveat, however: Joystixx is not a bad establishment, but the review is given [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/what-the-fck-weirdest-ad-ever-serves-as-preview-for-next-game-havens/feed/ 1 Game Havens, Special Edition: San Diego Comicon https://www.breakmanx.com/game-havens-special-edition-san-diego-comicon/ https://www.breakmanx.com/game-havens-special-edition-san-diego-comicon/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:59:25 +0000 http://padinga.com/?p=10845 Maaaan, you may think you know San Diego Comicon (SDCC) but brother, you don’t know shit. SDCC hasn’t been just about comics in a long, long time (for better or worse). Its become a pop culture mecca, the focal point of all things nerd in the US. So, where else would this pop aristocrat go [...]

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