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411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 06.10.03 *Scene focuses inside of what appears to be a giant laboratory of some sort. Several men in white lab coats and one little monkey, also in a miniature lab coat, are scurrying around looking at computer terminals, adjusting nozzles on machines, and writing things down on clipboards. One of the…

Welcome to Retrograding! We’re shaking up the line up here at 411, and Retrograding is now going to be the weekend fixture in our games section. It’s not daily news updates like Ron, Lee, Bryan, Stanley, and Bebito do, but I’ve always been the one to buck the trends here, from talking handhelds to bitching…

Hey all. Hope you all had a good week, and welcome to another edition (the 15th, if my math is accurate) of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. And after 14 times of writing it, “I’m Bryan Berg and I’ll be bringing you all the latest in video game news” is quite boring. So…

I’m back again with the best game news and anime discussion around. For those of you who maybe haven’t read my report before, I like video games (especially RPGs) and anime (especially robot maid type shows!) above all else. Well, except my wife. Anyway, every week here, I do some game news and releases, but…

Welcome back to Retrograding! I know it’s been a two months without me and I’ve missed you as much as you’ve missed me. I want to thank everyone for the emails of support I got while fighting the UK Home office. Sadly, I’m now in the US and the fiancee is still in the UK,…

Hello. You’ve stumbled upon the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, the one-stop shop for all the latest and greatest in video game news. Hope you like what you see. As you read this, I’m on the way to the Vet for the Mets-Phillies tilt I mentioned last week. Either that or I’m enjoying the…

It’s been a long and involved week here, so I’m kind of tired, but despite that, I think I’m going to put even MORE stuff in this week’s report. But before we get to that, I just wanted to tell you guys what I’ve been up to. Yea, I know everyone loves to hear about…

Hey all. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. I’m Bryan Berg. You may be wondering what happened to TGIT last week. Basically, it was E3 week, and who would have better perspective on E3 than our two guys there, Joseph Stanley and Chris Pankonin? With that in mind,…

Well, after the fun and excitement of last week, I’m still working at the same job. I applied at a few places, had an interview, and realized that my job doesn’t suck so bad after all. Don’t get me wrong. It sucks, just not AS bad. So I’ll live for now. I, like most people…

Well, Hell Week has come and gone, and I’m still broke. More and more stuff is coming out that I want, but cannot afford. Which is why I’m looking for a higher paying job. Wish me luck people. I need it. Since I am looking for a job, this will have to be a quicky…

Woah ho ho! Yes! After well over two months in the abyss you have come to know and love called “real life,” I’m back in the saddle again. The UC’s finals system kept me in check, along with my 22nd birthday this past March, and Pelican’s in-house Gestapo interrogating me about me talking smack about…

The Lo-Down 05.09.03: Sonic X Hi, I’m Bebito Jackson; perhaps you’ve heard of me? Welcome to the Lo-Down boys and girls. Not to be confused with the Down-Lo, which is simply my rumor column, it’ll be within the Lo-Down that I write about… well… pretty much any thing I darn well please! In retrospect it’s…

Welcome! It’s Thursday, and you know what that means – The Thank God It’s Thursday News Report! I’m Bryan Berg and I’m here to report on the latest breaking news in the gaming world. So let’s get started. Square Tetsuya Nomura, character designer for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, has recently spoken in regard to…

Welcome to Hell Week here at the HDONR. I’ll explain why it is Hell Week, and then we can get on to the news. See, every now and then, companies get together in a conspiracy against me and other anime and game fans like myself, but mainly against me. They band together and release so…

Happy May Day! Thanks for stopping by to check out the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. I’m reporting here from my room in Hicksville, NY, where Term Paper Week is indeed in full swing. Today (Wednesday as I write this) I had a Marketing paper due. Tomorrow, Management is due and I have a…

Well, here we are, back again to the greatest spectacle on 411 that relates to anime and games! Ok, so I’m the only one, bite me. This will probably be my worst column ever (which is still good, mind you, but not that good from me). I spent the weekend at my dad’s lake house,…

Hey, it’s me again with my take on the world of video games and anime. Just to kind of correct what Bryan Berg said last week, I will not be moving to another state, fortunately. I’m staying here and moving to a different help desk in the same company. And just for the record, I’d…

Hey all. Welcome to this religious holiday edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. I’m Bryan Berg, and I’d like to wish all of my fellow Catholics a Happy Easter. And to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Happy Passover. War Exploitation Kinda old news, but it deserves mentioning because I don’t think anyone…

It’s me, it’s me, it’s L-E-E! Agh, that was lame. Well, I guess not everybody has gotten sick of my presence. Well, except for that one guy who said, “Yea, you’re definitely not an otaku” and then sent me another email with the Happy99 virus. I’m sure it was intentional because the virus code was…