http://tap-repeatedly.com Games. Media. Opinions. Attitude. Thu, 17 May 2012 14:20:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/05/marvel-rolls-infinite-7s-avengers-movie-review/ http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/05/marvel-rolls-infinite-7s-avengers-movie-review/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 12:06:36 +0000 John "elbuchosan" Drow http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=24221 Avengers features to get itself out of debt. With $700 million banked worldwide after a mere 13 days, Disney should net north of a billion before Blu-Ray sales. So what transpired to make this Marvel film so successful?  Was it the MARVEL fanboy nation, the hype machine, Joss Whedon’s deep Buffy fan base, what was it? Whatever the reason, the bottom line is that when the sun shone through the Staff of Whedon in the Disney map room, it revealed the location of the Ark of the Cash Covenant.

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]]> http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/fez/feed/ 11 http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/impressions-dragons-dogma/ http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/impressions-dragons-dogma/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:19:47 +0000 Matt "Steerpike" Sakey http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=24122 Dragon's Dogma! In this demo, you Thank you for playing the Dragon's Dogma demo.

]]> http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/impressions-dragons-dogma/feed/ 5 http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/kermdinger-chronicles-9-jammed/ http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/kermdinger-chronicles-9-jammed/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:01:42 +0000 Dix http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=24108 ]]> http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/kermdinger-chronicles-9-jammed/feed/ 6 http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/do-go-down-to-the-woods-tonight/ http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/do-go-down-to-the-woods-tonight/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:57:54 +0000 Gregg B http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=24045 The Cabin In The Woods, a film I knew absolutely nothing about other than it was apparently good, and it was written and directed by Drew Goddard (Lost, Cloverfield, Angel) and co-written by Joss Whedon (partly responsible for quite a few things I’ve not liked, particularly that fourth Alien film after the trilogy). We arrived early, got into the screen early and I had to watch the trailers. Looking back, I wish I’d had some ice cream to distract me.

]]> http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/do-go-down-to-the-woods-tonight/feed/ 42 http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/superbrothers-sword-sworcery-ep-now-on-steam/ http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/superbrothers-sword-sworcery-ep-now-on-steam/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:28:07 +0000 Dix http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=24087 Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is now available (and on sale) for PC on Steam.  So you should definitely go get it if you don't have an iPad.  If you do have an iPad, you better have played this already!  Because it's amazing. Sword & Sworcery is an indie action/adventure game with a really incredible soundtrack, and is frankly not quite entirely unlike anything you've ever played probably.  It was also one of my games of the year. So what are you waiting for?  GO NOW.

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