Game Review: Fight Night Champion (PS3)

Let me be upfront. You’re going to be reading a lot of complaining in this review. Fight Night Champion, EA’s follow-up to the popular Fight Night Round 4 (my multi-part review of that game starts here), is a game that can be viewed in two ways. For those who have not played FNR4, the game
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The Beijing Diaries, Day 9 (Part II): The Great Wall!

November 14 The Great Wall With my schedule almost free for the afternoon, my plan was to visit the Great Wall of China. I had actually booked a car (for 600 yuan, including tolls) to pick me up from my hotel and drive me to the Great Wall and back, but the problem was that
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Mapping Your Fantasy World

Why map your fantasy world? A common theme for fantasy novels on shelves these days is a map of the fantasy world inside the front cover. To be honest, as a reader, I don’t usually give them more than a cursory glance. But as a writer, I find such maps can be quite useful. A good map
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Book Review: “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga

I’ll get this out of the way from the outset: The White Tiger is the best novel I have read in years. Not one of the best. The best. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a piece of fiction so addictive that I tried to read it every chance I had, to the point
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