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Game review: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 18, 2009 - 6:45pm

TEH. BEST. GAMES. EVAR.
By Andr'e Swartley

Issue #1
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: Playstation 3
Rating: M for Mature

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Bluffton resident launches Workplay Publishing

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 18, 2009 - 6:34pm

"For me writing is play. It's work to get other people to read it (my writing)," said Bluffton author and now book publisher Andre Swartley, in explaining how his new enterprise Workplay Publishing came into being.

Swartley of 137 N. Mound St., Bluffton, recently released his second novel, "Americanus Rex," which he calls the premiere title for Workplay Publishing. The story begins with a clich'e of a beauty pageant contestant wishing for world peace, and explores what might have to happen in our current global culture to make that wish to come true.

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Introducing 2 great-grandsons of Luther and Geneva Shetler

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 18, 2009 - 12:26pm

Luther and Geneva Shetler of Bluffton are celebrating the births of two great-grandsons. Zander Michael Strange was born Oct. 1, 2009. He is the son of Katie Hardy and Zac Strange and the grandson of Tami and Michael Hardy. Ira David Clemens was born on Oct. 13, 2009. He is the son of Steven Clemens and Rebecca Waltner-Toews and the grandson of Stan and Jo Clemens also of Bluffton.

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