This is my favorite memory from playing Fallout: New Vegas: I was wondering the desert fairly early on in the game and came upon a small camp held by Cesar’s Legion. There were maybe half a dozen soldiers and two slaves, men taken from a town in the South the Legion had raised, and I [...]
Last week publisher/destroyer of worlds Activision announced they were discontinuing the Guitar Hero franchise. It’s a strange thing to hear, though not a particularly surprising one – Activision’s way of handling a successful game is to glut the market with as much of it as possible, and in the few years since original developer Harmonix [...]
- A simultaneous turn-based game pitting two players against each other and the game itself. Each turn, players must prepare to manipulate the game’s input against each other without leaving themselves open to harm from either their opponent or the impartial game. – A game where your environment is made up almost entirely of loose [...]
11.23D-A-Y-J-O-B
I promised last post to talk a little about CSI: Dark Motives for the DS and what exactly I do. There’s a bit of a balancing act to be maintained here, as on one hand I need to not step on any of the NDAs that rule my life, and on the other I don’t [...]
Two short but sweet games for you this week. They’re from rather disparate genres, slapped together here due to their ever-so-sleight simularities to other games that are important to me at the moment. First is Super Serif Brothers, which is exactly like Super Mario Bros. if there were only one of them and he were [...]
First thing, right out of the box? Nobody does it like Nintendo. No other developer makes games that show such graceful understanding of how a game should play, from the way the controls just melt into your hands to the complex actions they coax out of running, jumping, and spinning. Margret Robinson had it pegged [...]
If you’re the sort who swings through the downloadable games portion of Nickelodeon’s web site from time to time, you might notice that SpongeBob’s Atlantis Squarepantis SquareOff is now available for download. And were you to look at the credits for it (after grabbing the free demo or slapping down some cash for the full [...]
10.09Meet The Demoman
As promised, a new Team Fortress 2 profile. I give you the Demoman. I can’t decide what I like more: that the moves he pulls in this clip – bouncing grenades off walls to kill an opponent, covering a doorway in mines – are all completely doable in the game itself, or the entire last [...]
Speaking of Team Fortress 2 (as I haven’t been, with the exception of a link in last night’s Halo 3 ramble), in addition to being probably the best contender for multiplayer game of the year developer Valve has come up with some of the smartest advertising for the game I’ve seen in a long, long [...]
In the midst of getting all excited over the latest digital wonders taking up both shelf and pocket space last post, I completely forgot to mention all the card and board games I’ve played lately. Card games in particular have completely taken over work, as all three of our in-house projects are more or less [...]