This week, Kathy and I finished playing Folklore. I bought the game because I’d heard the story was great, and — as I wrote previously — I’d heard it was supposed to be an RPG. Wrong on both counts.
The gameplay was action/adventure throughout, with some RPG aspects, like leveling up and resource management. That was [...]
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As programming practice — and just for fun — I’ve been spending some of my spare time putting together a simple little web-based game: Bay Traders.
Bay Traders is a bare bones take on a classic turn-based strategy game, Taipan!, which has spawned a number of ripoffs spiritual sequels over the years. DrugWars, Tradewinds, and Chocolatier [...]
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For a brief couple of years, I didn’t just play games; I helped make them at EA. Well, I helped make one: Majestic. I was the game’s web developer. In addition to programming the game’s main web interface, creating minigames, and writing copy, most of my time was spent designing realistically crappy fake websites, which [...]
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A highly touted, much-anticipated (at least by us) PS3 release, Viking ultimately falls flat on its lumbering, running face.
2 out of 10, THIS GAME SUCKS
Do you like to run? Do you like to run around a huge, empty world and pick up bags of gold? Do you like to run back through terrain you just [...]
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We’ve got a few weeks before any new games of note launch on the PS3, but don’t let that fool you into thinking Sony doesn’t want your money. The Dualshock Rumble controller is back:
http://gizmodo.com/375452/lightning-review-playstation-3-dualshock-3-rumble-controller
This is an evil genius move on Sony’s part. Get us suckers to buy systems with plain ol’ Sixaxis controllers for a [...]
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We’ve got a new Netvibes Universe page, where you can always get the latest headlines from a bunch of gaming sites across the web. We’re using it, and we thought you might want to, as well. We’ll be adding more sites and widgets to it in the days to come.
http://www.netvibes.com/elfneedsfood
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