So Burnout Paradise won out. And it’s good. How good remains to be seen. I spent about two hours with the game last night, trying all but two of the event types (the car-specific races and multiplayer) and winning enough times to kick my license rating up a few notches and unlock a handful of [...]
I have a serious problem. I want to buy a game. This is a pretty common state for me – odds are there’s always something new and shiny or something old and revered missing from my gaming knowledge, and the hole where it should be creates a burning need that can only be sated by [...]
This week’s Flash games takes us once again to the territory of one of my favorite game types – the unwinnable scenario. While it’s surface simplicity makes it a popular destination for many web games (particularly those more interested in testing a mechanic than crafting a complete experience), there’s still a certain artistry that a [...]
This might become a regular thing. It also might not. I don’t have time to do a regularly updated news site about games, as I’m often too busy making them to stop and talk about interesting bits of news as much as I’d like to. So the idea is at the end of each week [...]
Back in January, I posted a thing about David Gallaher and Steve Ellis’ excellent comic High Moon taking part in the first round of DC Comics’ new online endeavor, Zuda. Well, they handily won the shit out of it, and starting today new installments of the best comic featuring werewolves in the Old West can [...]
This week’s Monday Flash features less of a theme and more of an excuse to post two games that, despite their obvious flaws, have both managed to consume more of my greymatter and freetime than can be considered fair. Both are experiments in game design, more prototypical flights of fancy than real games, but that [...]
I had completely forgotten this little bit of wonder that came out shortly after Team Fortress 2′s release until it came in conversation at work today. Ignis Solus is the story of how one lonely Pyro passes the time when no one else is around. Between starring my current favorite Class and being set in [...]
I’m not good at multiplayer shooters. I know this, and yet I still persist in trying them, which means it’s only a matter of time before the people I end up with know this. Running on the heady tonic of nervous energy that is a), not wanting to look dumb in front of my teammates, [...]
I’m worried about Burnout Paradise. Back in August ’06, Criterion Games put out a press release for the fifth installment in the venerated racing series. Among the usual fluff that makes up press releases, there was this bit about the new direction the series was taking: Burnout 5 gives players license to wreak havoc in [...]
Good news: that whole thing with you occasionally be redirected to a parking site should be resolved now. You may have to do the dance of clearing your cookies and browser cache, but that particular infuriating headache should be a thing of the past from here on out. The problem was actually with the company [...]