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Basement Medicine

The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

A spidery failure, and butt-ugly to boot

“Colonial Marines”: Game over, man!

Dylan Archbold March 14, 2013

Man, it seems that I have been on a real negative kick lately, and this week doesn’t look like it is going to break that trend at all. Sorry, I’ve simply had a very bad run of it lately, and I suppose...

Una Lee changes the world, one video game at a time

Una Lee changes the world, one video game at a time

Lindsay Brown December 6, 2012

Una Lee sees the world as a series of systems, and video games as a creative way of exploring alternatives to the systems we already have in place.  Lee came to campus Nov. 14 to talk to students and...

The future is lame in “Black Ops 2”

The future is lame in “Black Ops 2”

Dylan Archbold December 6, 2012

As a critic, I have a responsibility to keep my finger on the pulse of popular culture, and then diagnose exactly what is wrong with it, or right with it; we critics aren’t always cynical buggers with...

“Assassin’s Creed 3” revolutionary gaming

“Assassin’s Creed 3” revolutionary gaming

Dylan Archbold November 15, 2012

Putting all my cards on the table, I am a huge “Assassin’s Creed” fanboy. There is not much they could have done outside of shipping out a gamebox full of camel spiders to my front door that would...

Kid Icarus: Uprising - surprisingly awesome

Kid Icarus: Uprising – surprisingly awesome

Dylan Archbold October 6, 2012

It’s time to give Nintendo some love. For the past two reviews, I’ve been focusing on the X-Box 360 (mostly because I don’t have a PS3), but now I think it is time to turn our gaze onto the best...

Sleeping Dogs delivers kung fu justice to the face

“Sleeping Dogs” delivers kung fu justice to the face

Dylan Archbold September 22, 2012

Welcome to the mean streets of Hong Kong. The city is home to more than 7,000,000 people, and it seems that you have to personally punch every single one of them in order to enact social justice. Does...

Max Payne 3 – Misanthropy never hurt so good

Dylan Archbold September 7, 2012

It has been nearly a decade since we last saw our brooding, bullet-dodging friend Max Payne. We last left him in the burning ruins of a mansion, cradling the body of a woman who had promised to kill him,...

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