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Rick Dakan – Contributor

Rick Dakan is the author of three novels, Geek Mafia, Geek Mafia: Mile Zero, and Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues. He co-created the hit online game, City of Heroes, and has written for and about games of all kinds since the mid-90’s. He is obsessed with games, books, other life’s great pleasures and measures his self-worth based on his Xbox Live Gamer Score. Find out more at www.rickdakan.com.

Rick’s Complete Daily Loaf Archive

Rick Dakan's Latest Entries:


Game Review: Dragon Age: Origins – a week’s vacation of epic adventure

Posted on Nov. 18, 2009, at 4:33 pm

Game Review: Borderlands is bazillions of funs

Posted on Nov. 9, 2009, at 10:45 am

Porn review: ‘Not the Bradys XXX Marcia, Marcia, Marcia’ (trailer)

Posted on Nov. 2, 2009, at 9:09 pm

Game Review – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The Summer blockbuster you’ve been waiting for

Posted on Oct. 30, 2009, at 1:45 pm

Game Review: Brütal Legend is too much to handle (with video)

Posted on Oct. 20, 2009, at 1:37 pm

The Da Vinci Code is so very, very broken; Book Review: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Posted on Oct. 5, 2009, at 1:23 pm

Game Review: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 – variety is only skin deep

Posted on Sep. 25, 2009, at 3:58 pm

Game Review: The Beatles: Rock Band – A history of rock in 45 songs

Posted on Sep. 17, 2009, at 2:19 pm

Why Bing trumps Google when searching for nude celebs (NSFW)

Posted on Sep. 17, 2009, at 8:29 am

Game Review: Batman Arkham Asylum – The Best Batman Game Ever

Posted on Sep. 16, 2009, at 2:20 pm

Game Review: Shadow Complex, a very good game connected to a nasty anti-gay author, Orson Scott Card

Posted on Sep. 2, 2009, at 3:30 pm

Game review – Wolfenstein: a joyous Nazi-killing extravaganza

Posted on Aug. 26, 2009, at 5:44 pm

Game review: Wii Sports Resort, or what your Wii was made for

Posted on Aug. 24, 2009, at 10:44 am

Game review: Secret of Monkey Island, 19 years old and funny as ever

Posted on Jul. 30, 2009, at 12:46 pm

Game review: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood – six-gun style shoot ‘em up

Posted on Jul. 22, 2009, at 1:09 pm

Video game review: Battlefield 1943 – “Help us kill 43 million as quickly as possible please!”

Posted on Jul. 13, 2009, at 1:13 pm

Review: Ghosbusters: The Video Game – The sequel we’ve been waiting 20 years for

Posted on Jul. 2, 2009, at 2:57 pm

Video game review: Prototype – Oh, the inhumanity!

Posted on Jun. 29, 2009, at 10:16 am

Game review: Totally Spies! totally insulting. Girls deserve much, much better

Posted on Jun. 24, 2009, at 2:38 pm

Video game review for Red Faction Guerrilla: Smashing the man for a better Mars

Posted on Jun. 19, 2009, at 10:09 am

Video game review – UFC: Undisputed, as good as MMA gets

Posted on Jun. 10, 2009, at 10:48 am

Video game review: inFamous – lightning strikes twice (and 3029 times after that)

Posted on Jun. 5, 2009, at 11:04 am

Video game review: Bionic Commando, or, the swinger lifestyle

Posted on May. 26, 2009, at 11:44 am

Terminator Salvation video game review: Slightly longer than the movie

Posted on May. 22, 2009, at 10:39 am

Video game review: Plants vs. Zombies

Posted on May. 18, 2009, at 12:55 pm

Video game review: Velvet Assassin – take back the night from Nazis or take back the game?

Posted on May. 12, 2009, at 11:11 am

Game Review – X-Men Origins: Wolverine is better than the crappy movie of the same name

Posted on May. 6, 2009, at 12:40 pm

Video game review: Ninja Blade – the name says it all

Posted on Apr. 28, 2009, at 6:12 am

Godfather 2: I am in fact the boss of you

Posted on Apr. 23, 2009, at 8:00 am

Vin Diesel-powered excitement: Wheelman video game review

Posted on Apr. 16, 2009, at 1:23 pm

Reliving history’s greatest moments – Video game review: WWE Legends of Wrestlemania

Posted on Apr. 8, 2009, at 1:33 pm

Video game Wanted: Weapons of Fate: No Angelina Jolie, but still some thrills

Posted on Apr. 6, 2009, at 12:19 pm

Resident Evil 5: Much more fun than it is racist

Posted on Mar. 30, 2009, at 10:49 am

Madworld for the Wii: Style, gore, and gratuitous fun

Posted on Mar. 23, 2009, at 10:08 am

Quick Dismissals, I Mean Looks: HAWX and Onechanbara: Samurai Bikini Squad

Posted on Mar. 19, 2009, at 8:29 am

Game review: Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is no Arrested Development or Dr. Horrible

Posted on Mar. 14, 2009, at 12:59 pm

Killzone 2 Review: Pretty, Deadly, A Little Dull

Posted on Mar. 13, 2009, at 11:00 am

I am 50 Cent and so Can You: Blood on The Sand Review

Posted on Mar. 5, 2009, at 9:03 am

That’s so gay! X-Box Live says no to sexual orientation

Posted on Mar. 2, 2009, at 9:30 pm

Gaming the recession: Wall Street Fighter IV

Posted on Feb. 24, 2009, at 4:06 pm

Street Fighter IV review: The best is back

Posted on Feb. 23, 2009, at 3:45 pm

15 ways gaming is good for you (plus diet tips!)

Posted on Feb. 20, 2009, at 6:50 am

Full frontal – GTA IV: Lost and the Damned puts the penis back in gaming

Posted on Feb. 19, 2009, at 1:53 pm

F.E.A.R 2 Review: The horror is pretty fun

Posted on Feb. 18, 2009, at 2:55 pm

Valkyria Chronicles Review: It’s World War II, anime style!

Posted on Feb. 11, 2009, at 10:58 am

Playing Starcraft for college credit

Posted on Feb. 7, 2009, at 6:55 am

Reliving the Chinese Communist Invasion of Alaska in 2077, thanks to Fallout 3 expansion packs

Posted on Feb. 6, 2009, at 9:22 am

Free Game Downloads From Amazon.com

Posted on Feb. 5, 2009, at 1:14 pm

Massive bank fraud, 80 billion stolen, starship fleets sent on galaxy-wide manhunt

Posted on Feb. 3, 2009, at 11:56 am

Best games of 2008? Yeah, probably

Posted on Jan. 30, 2009, at 3:21 pm

Game Review: Mirror’s Edge

Posted on Jan. 27, 2009, at 10:51 am

Xbox 360 Live Arcade download pleasures: Feed your gaming Maw

Posted on Jan. 22, 2009, at 9:58 am

Gamers deserve dates, too. In the UK, they get them.

Posted on Jan. 21, 2009, at 10:51 am

Gaming for goodness sake (and $1.4 million)

Posted on Jan. 19, 2009, at 2:53 pm

Gaming the recession: Bioshock

Posted on Jan. 17, 2009, at 7:06 pm

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