I drew this up last week and have had it sitting in a Notepad window for a couple of weeks. Thought it was time to share it, if only to be able to close that window.
Here are the games that constitute my “personal gaming canon.” Perhaps the term I should use is “ludologic canon”? That [...]
I just discovered “Google Reader Play.” It looks to be an interesting way of taking your Google Reader behavior and “game-ifying it”, i.e. using the reward structures and idioms of gaming to make an activity more fun and encourage certain types of behavior.
This is one of my favorite gaming stories, but it’s not really mine.
My brother Bradley and I were home from college, and we had rented the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil. Our friend Wesley was staying overnight at our house. They were planted in front of the TV, Bradley was “driving” the game, Wes sitting [...]
Hi there my name is Slashy P. Dott, and I’d like to express my opinions about PC games!
PC games are the best! Especially FPSes. I want to mention right now that anyone who plays an FPS on a console is both a baby and an idiot, and also simultaneously a child.
How can they play that [...]
I’ve been reading Gamasutra since I was a nerdy little CS major dreaming of someday working professionally in games, and desperate to read anything published about the art, science, and business of games. Though it appears that the site has had its bumps through the years, these days I think its content and news are [...]
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/19/0231206/Blizzard-Adds-Timestamps-To-emWoWem-Armory
“In a move that could cause serious privacy problems for players of World of Warcraft, Blizzard has added timestamps and an RSS feed to the game’s online armory site….”
For those of you who dream of making the most successful game of the world, remember that what comes hand-in-hand with that: everything you ever do will [...]
Guest House.
I’ve seen one of these “escape the room” games (or as I call them, “mini-Myst” games) done in Flash before, but not nearly this well-done. Looks like the graphics were done in Adobe Illustrator…?
Very well-made overall, but take Leigh Alexander’s advice to heart: occasional flurries of random clicking around what you’re interested in can [...]
http://2dboy.com/games.php
The indie game World of Goo just turned a year old and for one week, they’re letting people download it for… whatever they think it’s worth. If you want it for 1 cent, it’s 1 cent!
I hope they publish what their average prices, etc. for this are. I paid $5 myself… haven’t played it yet [...]
The descendants and relations of Ludwig Van Beethoven have filed a series of lawsuits against Activision, creator of Symphony Hero 4, claiming that the developers used a digital representation of the famous composer in the game without the approval of his surviving family members.
The class-action suits, filed by 1,348 individuals in 9 countries who trace [...]