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John McEnroe Fears the Mafia Infiltrating Organized Tennis
2007-12-10 08:14:00
Yahoo Sports NewsTennis star John McEnroe has recently stated that the Russian mafia could be infiltrating the world of organized tennis. He states that the subversion is "potentially pretty dark and scary".This news makes me remember that scene from The Untouchables when Capone is talking about baseball. Let's see how it'll be reworked to fit this "dark and scary" model:Capone: I've always loved tennis. But the thing I love about it most is that...(Pulls out tennis racket)Capone: Everyone works as a team!(Starts beating the informant)Capone: Why won't you die?!Informant: It's just a ****ing tennis racket!This is, of course, why the organized crime fellows will always stick to baseball.
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How Much Political Power Do Bloggers Really Have?
2007-12-09 19:34:00
Is there anything with less political power than a blogger. I'll try to list them:8. Pigeons7. Okra6. Rhode Island5. That one guy (you know who I'm talking about!)4. Larry Craig, post-HUAI (Highly Unfortunate Airport Incident)3. Migrant Workers2. Dead People1. Another stuffTo prove my point, let's analyze the facts (and once we're done with the boring part and removed all record of it from human society, let's analyze the anecdotal and fabricated evidence):In January of 2005, Fortune Magazine made a list of 8 bloggers that business people "can't ignore". I'd never heard of any of them.No U.S. president has had a blog.Bloggers are usually stupid people (to prove me wrong, find just one blog that doesn't poke fun at the word "buckwheat")DUH!So tell me, do bloggers have any political power at all? Name one example that I can't rebuttalize and you win undying respect or a digital hamster (I refuse to explain more!).
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Website Revamping
2007-12-09 19:15:00
Hello, and after several months of neglect, I have come back to post on the blog!One gaming review a day was simply too stressful, so instead, I'll be posting on a wide variety of topics in order to interest and delight the readers.They say to write what you know, so many posts will regard "petting my horse" and "contemplating the term 'hassock'".i.e., I'm not abusing the trust of the blog's regular readers (lol, it's been down for several months; "What regular readers?") by removing valuable content, but instead, I am "diversifying" and "re-diversifying".It's like a gaming magazine with 25 editorials for every 1 article.It's revolutionary!(lol, Who am I kidding, it's still crap, but now it's "diversified crap")--Ed. (That stands for editor!)
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Jelly Blocks
2007-08-16 20:58:00
Name: Jelly Blocks Genre: PuzzleDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: FunFlashGames.comPlaying Time: 2-5 Minutes Per RoundDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Maneuver your rectangles and covalently bond them. Not much else to it. Now I'm regretting wasting all my "cube puns" on earlier posts.Final Rating: 3.5 Stars

360 Snake
2007-08-15 20:34:00
Name: 360 Snake Genre: ActionDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: EggshellsPlaying Time: 5-20 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Can you recall Snake? 2-D game where the pixelated snake moves on a rectangular grid in an attempt to eat pixelated apples without eating himself? Well, you're probably either too young to remember, or too old to care, but, take my word for it, such a game did indeed exist. Jacob Lee's "360 Snake" is quite similar to Snake, except, instead of making strictly 90 degree turns, you can move all over the place! Now your Snake's apple-hunting can go undisturbed by limited movement, and can instead go disturbed by something else, such as your total lack of gaming aptitude.Final Rating: 3.5 Stars

Ball Revamped 5
2007-08-14 20:10:00
Name: Ball Revamped 5Genre: ActionDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: jmtb02 Studios, Tastylamp, Armor GamesPlaying Time: 2-5 Minutes Per RoundDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: In the tradition of Ball, Ball Revamped, Ball Revamped 2, Ball Revamped 3, and Ball Revamped 4, jmtb02 Studios, Tastylamp, and Armor Games create the long awaited sequel in this thriller saga: Ball Revamped 5. In the "delightful game of strategy and action", you must move a ball through the portal, and not get killed by any number of wicked traps this game posesses. Are your balls quick enough, or will they be crushed and chopped?Final Rating: 4.0 Stars

"Risque" Emma "Hermione Granger" Watson Picture
2007-08-14 07:37:00
Prescript:All right, I recognize that this post has absolutely nothing to do with gaming, and considering the fact that I'm posting on "The Daily Online Gaming Review Blog", this may be a little off-topic.All right, I recognize that this post may or may not be classified as terribly offensive, and my credibility will be ruined by writing it.All right, I recognize that all the women, children, and effeminate men will slap me for posting this.All right, I recognize that this may or may not breach every copyright and intellectual copyright law I know of.But then again, appealing to the lonely, "nerd class" readers is a good thing too, as i am almost certain that this post will become blog-bait because of the "risque" aspect, and that it will be frequently re-published due to its controversial nature.Content:So I was browsing the photo galleries at some Emma Watson (better known as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise) fan sites (don't ask why I was browsing Emma Watson fan ...
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Just Letters
2007-08-13 18:45:00
Name: Just Letters Genre: CasualDifficulty Rating: EasyPublisher: FlashComGuru.comPlaying Time: UnlimitedDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Remember those magnets shaped like letters you used to put on your refrigerator? Remember all those obscene words you used to make with these letters? Remember how other people always seemed to steal your letters? Remember how all this happened in an online browser-based environment which attracts approximately 500,000 users monthly? No? Then maybe you should get out and live a little (and when you fail miserably at that, play "Just Letters", provided by FlashComGuru.comFinal Rating: 4.0 Stars

Solarsaurs
2007-08-12 15:13:00
Name: SolarsaursGenre: StrategyDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: Super Flash Bros.Playing Time: 5 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: You control a cursor and fling flying dinosaurs into an asteroid field. Stranger things have happened, but not frequently. You know you've wanted to do it, but up until now, you thought the logistics seemed impossible. Not anymore, not anymore (plus if you're a really bad player, you can make dinosaur intestine stew).Final Rating: 4.0 Stars

MicroTanks
2007-08-12 07:50:00
Name: MicroTanksGenre: War GameDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: FreeOnlineGames.comPlaying Time: 2-5 Minutes Per RoundDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: MicroTanks is a strategic War Game in which you control a tank and fight it out against the computer (or a friend if you use the multiplayer function). The strategic shooter interface is somewhat entertaining at first, but the clunky Artificial Intelligence makes gameplay rather boring.Final Rating: 3.0 Stars

Triangles
2007-08-11 05:12:00
Name: Triangle sGenre: StrategyDifficulty Rating: HardPublisher: Armor GamesPlaying Time: 2-10 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: The dual screen layout of Triangles is quite reminiscent of the gameplay on the Nintendo DS. See how long you can control the two triangles and dodge the moving circles. If you have trouble playing this game, try playing it with a friend.Final Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Phit
2007-08-10 06:27:00
Name: PhitGenre: PuzzleDifficulty Rating: HardPublisher: Armor GamesPlaying Time: 5-10 Minutes Per RoundDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: This entertaining puzzle game will enhance your spatial reasoning as you arrange the cube arrangements into a specific location without having any gaps between cubes. Very educational, but it gets boring easily. (Sorry about post length for the next couple of days--I'm on vacation and only have a couple minutes to post per day).Final Rating: 3.5 Stars

The DOGR Announces a Gaming Website Award: The 8-Bit Junkie Award
2007-08-09 09:26:00
Award:I am pleased to announce that The DOGR is now giving out a design award exclusively for gaming websites and blogs: The 8-Bit Junkie Award. Any gaming-related site that wins will be featured on this site, and will be allowed to display the stylish, 8-Bit Junkie Award Badge.Criteria:General:Site Template - 3 Pts.Site Content - 3 Pts.Site Community - 3 Pts.Extra Points:Site Recieves More Than 1000 Visitors Per Week - 1 Pt.Site Has a Google Pagerank of 1 or More - 1 Pt.Site Links Back to http://thedogr.blogspot.com - 5 Pts.Submissions:To submit your site for consideration, write a comment to this post in the following format:Name - Site NameURL - Site URLDescription - Brief, 50 Word DescriptionQuestions:If you have any questions, comments, or submissions, please write a comment to this post.
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Gyroball
2007-08-09 08:24:00
Name: GyroballGenre: StrategyDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: MiniclipPlaying Time: 2-20 Minutes Per RoundDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Move the gyroscopically centered ball to the shiny, rectangular hole. Gee, you can tell a game is good when it's got big balls and shiny holes ;).Final Rating: 3.5 Stars

Cubefield
2007-08-08 08:04:00
Name: Cubefield Genre: StrategyDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: FleckoPlaying Time: 5 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Navigate a triangular figure through a minefield of cubes. Sounds simple, right? After spending a couple minutes with Max Abernethy's, Cubefield, you're realize just how difficult this is. Once you've spent hours dodging and weaving cubes, you'll soon dream and hallucinate of these rectangular monsters. Slowly, the cubes will overwhelm you, binding you to the game's prevalent addictiveness. SURRENDER TO THE CUBES!Final Rating: 4.5 Stars

Free Rider
2007-08-06 13:25:00
Name: Free Rider Genre: SportsDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: OneMoreLevel.comPlaying Time: 5-60 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Free Rider combines free-form track design with racing gameplay to create an addictive online game. Make maps to race your "Free Rider" on, or find a map in the site's forum (http://forums.onemorelevel.com/forumdisp lay.php?f=7), then let the race begin! Once you're finished with easy tracks, play on an "insane-rated" track (http://forums.onemorelevel.com/showthrea d.php?t=656), sporting spikes, traps, pitfalls, ramps, bottomless gulches, and occasional geometric-style artwork. Despite the game's insufficient accuracy with regards to real world physics, and apparent lack of a "grip-on-reality", who needs reality when you've got an addictive bike racing game?Final Rating: 4.5 Stars

8 Ways to Build Links to Your Blog
2007-08-05 23:47:00
This is a non-gaming related article. Todays reviews are featured below this article.8 Ways to Build Links to Your Blog Write At Least One Post Per Day: To achieve maximum blog exposure, you should post anywhere from one to several times a day. This will ensure your site always has fresh content, and will keep visitors coming back for more. Multiple daily posting also increases the probability that you’ll be linked to by other sites. If you’re too busy too post once a day, instead of making full-fledged articles, write short and pithy posts. If, right now, you can only write two articles per week, on the days you don’t post these articles, publish shorter posts that still provide valuable content. I suggest writing short step-by-step posts, quotations from other bloggers in your field, a “site-of-the-week” post (this can also be used for link trading; see suggestion #8), and summarizing news articles and other bloggers work. Let Others Use Your Work: C...

Stunt Bike Island 3D
2007-08-05 23:30:00
Name: Stunt Bike Island 3DGenre: SportsDifficulty Rating: EasyPublisher: ForgeFXPlaying Time: 5 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: Stunt Bike Island 3D is an amazingly addictive game, and a fun diversion to what would ordinarily be a boring afternoon. Rendered in 64 bit graphics, the landscapes and scenery of this game are aesthetic, without being a major drag on bandwith. In the game, you control a cyclist, who must complete various stunts in order to earn points. I hardly could bring myself to finish this review, due to the game's massive addictiveness.Final Rating: 4.5 Stars

World Sudoku League
2007-08-05 23:15:00
Name: World Sudoku League Genre: PuzzleDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: PlayCom Game DesignPlaying Time: 10-30 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: None ($3.99 6 Month Premium Membership Available)Summary: An online remake of the classic game nearly 200 years in the making, this puzzle game allows you to play Sudoku online, as well as participate in tournaments and chat with friends. The downside of this game is that gameplay quality is significantly reduced for non-premium members.Final Rating: 3.5 Stars

Speed 2
2007-08-05 21:21:00
Name: Speed 2Genre: PuzzleDifficulty Rating: HardPublisher: Rich InnovationsPlaying Time: 1 Minute Per 5 RoundsDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: In this typing game, you type the words/random strings of letters, and earn points depending upon how long it takes for you type. Its addictive gameplay and educational characteristics make it an entertaining play, even at the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome.Final Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Blog Challenge: Increase Your Technorati Authority By 300 In 30 Days!
2007-08-05 00:00:00
(This is a non-gaming related post. Today's review can be found here.)Here’s an interesting challenge we can all participate in so that everyone can accomplish the same goal: Increase your Technorati Authority By 300 In Only One Month! (It will also help you improve your backlinks as the new Google PageRank update is right around the corner) How will it be done? Technorati authority is measured by how many different blogs have linked to your blog in the last six months. Of course, if one particular blog links to you 20 times, it will only count as +1 for your authority- which is good because the goal here is not to link farm your blog everywhere and penalize yourself in the search engines. This works similarly to a blogroll, only easier. The list below starts with SiteFever.com linking to BlueJar.com. Add your site to the list and who you want to link to, then pass the list on. If you want to be extra nice, you can even link to more than one blog. Each blog that posts this list a...
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Cubitsu
2007-08-04 13:19:00
Name: CubitsuGenre: PuzzleDifficulty Rating: HardPublisher: Armor Games & Josh TamPlaying Time: 2-5 Minutes Per RoundDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: This strategic puzzle game is a 3-dimensional remake of "Tic-Tac-Toe". The main objective is to rotate the cube to match up stars and bonus items, and avoid matching bombs. Its clever interface and challenging gameplay make for an entertaining puzzle game.Final Rating: 4.0 Stars

Ragdoll Avalanche 2
2007-08-03 23:09:00
Name: Ragdoll Avalanche 2Genre: ActionDifficulty Rating: MediumPublisher: Ragdollsoft.comPlaying Time: 5 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: In this devastatingly addictive game, you control a stick figure who tries to dodge the many falling spikes aimed towards him (or her; with a stick figure, how can you tell?). If you haven't already, say goodbye to your social life, because this game will have you glued to the computer 24/7!Final Rating: 4.5 Stars
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Street Fighter Online
2007-08-03 05:38:00
Name: Street Fighter Online Genre: ActionDifficulty Rating: HardPublisher: streetfighteronline.comPlaying Time: 10 MinutesDevelopment Stage: ReleasedCost: NoneSummary: This browser-based version of the classic arcade game allows you to play against thousands of other players worldwide, although lag may present problems for low-bandwith users, and the interface can be confusing at first. Final Rating: 3.5 Stars
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Contact The Webmaster
1999-09-09 10:15:00
There is currently only one way of contacting the webmaster of this blog:1. Email Me --- czechmatester (at) gmail (dot) com
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