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		<title>The Year in Review(s)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was a hell of a year. Twelve months ago, I was a fresh-faced blogger who had just taken the reins at Paste magazine, eager to do something new but not quite sure what that would be. Now it&#8217;s December again and here I am at Kotaku, looking back at an insane year of writing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5268&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hi, Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other week, I had the pleasure of going on Anthony Carboni&#8217;s Revision3.TV show &#8220;New Challenger.&#8221; The show aired in two parts&#8211;the first part was a review/discussion of Saints Row: The Third, a game which I had actually reviewed for Kotaku. In the second part, we did a Q&#38;A, and I took questions from twitter. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5256&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard At Work</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/06/hard-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<title>Play It Again, Samus</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/03/play-it-again-samus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to once again have contributed a feature to the lovely Kill Screen Magazine. This issue&#8217;s theme was &#8220;The Sound Issue,&#8221; so as you can probably imagine, I was excited to come up with something good to write for it. I think I did! My article is a look at how both games and improvisational [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5236&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Months On The Job</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/10/23/three-months-on-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kirkhamilton.com/?p=5193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends, honored guests, Pawneeans: I have some time this Sunday and I thought I would look back at my first three months writing for Kotaku. It has been an intense, often overwhelming, extraordinarily educational, stressful and rewarding time. It&#8217;s taken this long for me to even get a sense of what the hell I&#8217;m doing there, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5193&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time! Is Marching On!</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/10/08/time-is-marching-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s what happens when you begin to blog for a living—your personal blog takes a bit of a breather&#8230; for two months. But today? Today is my birthday, so I&#8217;m taking a break from working to write this. What am I working on, you may ask? Next week, I&#8217;ll be attending the Game Developers&#8217; Conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5180&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voicebox 360</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/08/13/voicebox-360/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not every day I&#8217;m in the New Yorker. Actually, it&#8217;s pretty much been zero days up to this point. But this week&#8217;s issue features a fantastic profile of voice-actor Jennifer Hale by my friend Tom Bissell, and it&#8217;s got a quote from me! It&#8217;s just a little quote, but it&#8217;s a good one. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5161&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hi There, Kotaku</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/07/27/hi-there-kotaku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, then. I&#8217;m crazy-excited to announce that I&#8217;ve accepted the position of San Francisco Features Editor at Kotaku! We announced the position today &#8211; I&#8217;ll officially start this coming Monday. I&#8217;ll be writing features, criticism, developer interviews, reviews, doing field reporting from SF, keeping up my music/games column&#8230; basically everything, really. I&#8217;ve had so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5121&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just To Watch It Burn</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/07/26/just-to-watch-it-burn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve played it so many times, and yet to this day Far Cry 2 remains a game filled with such terrible thrills, such unexpected beauty.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5131&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Cayuga!</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/07/22/oh-cayuga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday, July 24th, I&#8217;ll be leading my band in the first-ever performance of the live musical radio show 915 Cayuga! The show is a project that my collaborative partner Khamara Pettus and I have been working on for a while, and it&#8217;s gonna be super-fun. It&#8217;s basically a radio variety show, featuring musicians (me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5111&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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