By and large, I concur with the RealID discussion at Habitat Chronicles. I don’t have a lot of value to add, really. Here are my thoughts!
It’s scary. I’ve let my real name out, and it’s nearly impossible to fight your way back.
I bet Blizzard has decided that the quality of discussion on [...]
If you haven’t seen the FarmVille satire ad video circulating lately, you should. It’s funny stuff!
(I’m going to be saying that all day now. FARM VILLE! It’s the price of hefty journalistic investigation, I suppose.)
I’d just never thought about it in these terms until we were chattering in the office last week, [...]
These silly Facebook RPGs are still holding my attention — I mean the likes of Mafia Wars and all. I can even SEE how they’re skins of the same application, and yet, I’m having enough fun to keep playing.
What’s the minimum feature set in an RPG that would keep you playing? I haven’t [...]
Diablo 2 is a 9-year-old game, and yet, there are 25,000 games of it going on right now on Battle.net.
D2 encompasses many of the design flaws I’d call out as horrific. The entire game mechanic is grindfest. Success is driven enormously through random loot drops. Min-maxing is arguably the core gameplay mechanic. [...]
I love Tower Defense. I play all sorts of variations. I even wrote a cheesy clone in Metaplace one weekend. I’m also a big fan of PopCap games like Bejeweled and Insaniquarium.
Given all this, I was thrilled to hear about Popcap’s newest game, Plants vs Zombies. A quick hop into Steam, [...]
After signing up for Gamefly, I tried out a couple of games from my “older stuff” list. (Well, a coworker actually bought one game FOR me via Gamefly, at a FAR more attractive used price than GameStop was offering, but it’s all close enough.) I approached both games with some preconceptions, and both [...]
I picked up two games recently. These games are at nearly opposite ends of the development spectrum, and I figured it’d be fun to get into some post-mortem (ish) game-on-game compare and contrast action.
The Loser
I was fantastically excited after seeing this ad for Eat Lead: the Return of Matt Hazard. It looked [...]
If you didn’t play Braid last year, then you’re either not a fan of alternative gameplay, or you’re not an XBox 360 owner. I guess neither is a crime. But courtesy of Fidgit, I see that Braid will be available for $19.95 on Impulse soon. In case you missed the news last [...]
