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Josh's last update: Josh is about to fuck around with "My Japanese Coach", which sounds really awkward without the proper context. Lets pretend My Japanese Coach is a buxom beauty, ok? That makes it awesome.
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June 14, 2009
  • Josh had a submission approved for Andrew Ryan for a total of 6,344 points.
    4 months, 3 weeks ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for Eli Vance for a total of 6,344 points.
    4 months, 3 weeks ago
June 3, 2009
  • ahoodedfigure wrote to Josh
    What, you're not the only one who hates firsties? Weird! I actually don't care much any more since I feel like it's so ubiquitous. If someone says first and isn't, I laugh. If someone says first and actually has some sort of meaningful thing to say beyond that, great. If they just say first, I ignore them like they were a header in an email. My true joy, though, is to be first, but then not draw any attention to that. Muahaha.
    Delete - See Wall to Wall
    5 months, 1 week ago
May 12, 2009
  • Seriously, can we start banning for this "First" nonsense? Or at the very least do something, anything to prevent it?
    6 months ago
April 24, 2009
March 22, 2009
  • Josh had a submission approved for King of All Cosmos for a total of 6,344 points.
    7 months, 3 weeks ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for System Shock 2 for a total of 6,344 points.
    7 months, 3 weeks ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for System Shock 2 for a total of 6,344 points.
    7 months, 3 weeks ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for Katamari for a total of 6,344 points.
    7 months, 3 weeks ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for ADAM for a total of 6,344 points.
    7 months, 3 weeks ago
  • I think you meant Black Prophecy, but yeah...I'm afraid I have no idea where I got that info. I remember it was some kind of official article about the game, but I don't remember from where. I wrote that article almost a year ago, and while I was at Giant Bomb I wrote about 200 others, I think, so I'm afraid no one post has stuck in my head.
    7 months, 3 weeks ago
March 15, 2009
March 7, 2009
  • Josh is about to fuck around with "My Japanese Coach", which sounds really awkward without the proper context. Lets pretend My Japanese Coach is a buxom beauty, ok? That makes it awesome.
    8 months ago
March 5, 2009
  • Josh had a submission approved for SimLife for a total of 6,344 points.
    8 months, 1 week ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for SimLife for a total of 6,344 points.
    8 months, 1 week ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for SimLife for a total of 6,344 points.
    8 months, 1 week ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for SimLife for a total of 6,344 points.
    8 months, 1 week ago
March 4, 2009
Feb. 27, 2009
  • Josh had a submission approved for SimLife for a total of 6,344 points.
    8 months, 2 weeks ago
  • Josh had a submission approved for SimLife for a total of 6,344 points.
    8 months, 2 weeks ago
Feb. 21, 2009
  • Josh created the new list with 0 items
    8 months, 2 weeks ago
Added by Josh Wanamaker on July 21, 2008

Howdy everyone reading this thing! I'm getting a lot of comments and postings on my wall and comments and ims and I just don't have the time to respond to each and every one of them. SO! Some quick responses to the two most often posted questions.

  • Yes, this job is awesome, if that wasn't apparent by now. While it's been very fun for me so far, since the site launched it's been on a whole other level. 25,000 submissions in less than 48 hours. Almost 11,500 registered users. You guys are simultaneously crazy and amazing in your love of gaming, and it's just pure fun to handle your submissions, despite the voluminous, oceanic amount of content that's been dropped on the site.

  • People keep asking me how I got the job. I met Ryan at Will Wright's presentation during the GDC earlier this year. I followed up with him after the show through email and he eventually offered me the internship. Obviously, I jumped at the chance to work with Ryan and Jeff (and later Brad and Vinny!). My career goals at the moment revolve around video game journalism, so you can imagine the opportunity this job presents.

That's it for now! In the minute or two it took me to write the above I'm sure another several hundred submissions were added, so I'm going to go back to doing that.



Added by Josh Wanamaker on July 15, 2008

Here's my first blog post! I'm testing the system, you see.


So, with the recent announcement that FFXIII would be coming to the 360, I now have one less reason to actually consider getting a PS3. You see, while my platform of choice is and always will be the PC, I'm an equal opportunity gamer, and thus I make it my business (hopefully soon that will be in the literal sense, not just the figurative) to own every major platform on the market. I've got 'em all, except for a PS3, and there just isn't enough reason for me to buy one as of yet, not with the price sticking to $400 throughout this year and the next. 80 gigs for $400? That's not a value at all. My intentions were to always stick a 500+gig drive in that thing to begin with! Gigs are priced like candy these days.

Images work pretty damn well!


So, while some people strangely see the release of Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 equating the end times, I certainly don't. Here's a large image to test the blog's image functionality:

This isn't the case at all, but it was fun to make!
This isn't the case at all, but it was fun to make!
















 It just gives me one less reason to want a PS3. On the other hand, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, flOwer, and some other junk is looking pretty neat, and what with Sony releasing some PS3 games for a mere $30, not really something I should miss out on. Eh, I'll get one sometime.

Here's my contact info


  • XBL -  An Atheist Jew
  • Wii # - 7692 1083 3375 6220
    Brawl friend code : 4038-5663-7760)
  • Steam ID - Atheist Jew





Josh's Reviews
Holy Crap! Mukaitoge tries to drop another Elebits and fails! (WII)
Last December, Shingo Mukaitoge and Konami delivered unto Wii owners the kid-friendly FPS title Elebits. The game was praised for its childish and colorful take on the genre as well as its unique assortment of “weapons” and gameplay mechanics. Keeping to form, Mukaitoge and Konami have dropped yet another kid-friendly ...
Reviewed by Josh on July 21, 2008

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Holy Crap! A revolutionary 2-D RTS game! (PS2)
Being a fan of the Real Time Strategy genre is tough. Over the last few years we have been presented, or perhaps I should say assaulted, with clone after clone of generic RTS titles. Oh sure, they’re not necessarily bad games, but they aren’t representative of anything new, either, only ...
Reviewed by Josh on July 21, 2008

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Holy Crap! 4X Sci-Fi Gameplay at it's best?! (PC)
The latest foray into the space-based genre of RTS games takes its form in Sins of a Solar Empire, the first and rather highly anticipated title from Ironclad Games. On the surface, Sins appears to be no more than a Homeworld or Hegemonia clone, but a closer inspection of the ...
Reviewed by Josh on July 21, 2008

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.


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RedSox8933 just got back from a weekend in NY and is ready for a week of MW2.
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Wess doesn't understand why he keeps wanting new games - he has too many already!
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Everyones_A_Critic in my 17 years on this earth, I never thought I'd say I look forward to a Monday. MW2 midnight launch will change that
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I think you should buy Dragon Age. Like, right now.