Posted in Board Games, Video Games, Opinion on May 20th, 2007 No Comments »
The past few days featured a few memorable gaming moments to share and discuss.
The Fall of Count Bleck. I finished Super Paper Mario, which ended up 3 or 4 hours longer than I anticipated it would. The level design in the game turns out to have a modicum of inconsistency, and I really would […]
Posted in Board Games, Video Games, Reviews on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Catan represents the first of a number of announced board game to Live Arcade conversions, and as such has an enormously wide range of first reactions amongst the players. Those with a background in video games are finding a totally different style steeped in patient strategy and moderate game speed. Those with a board game […]
Posted in News, Video Games on May 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
It has just trickled to me over the wire that Ron Gilbert has signed on to help develop Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.
If you live in a cave, Ron Gilbert was the part of the brains behind Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion while over at LucasArts. If you are too young […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Video Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Back in November of last year I began a series of articles entitled the 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin to chronicle my immersion in Blizzard Entertainments smash success World of Warcraft. Though doing so I hoped to explain the genre to those, like I, who had avoided it and provide a commentary style review as […]
Posted in Board Games, Video Games, Opinion on May 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
I spent a few hours tonight with Catan (as in Settlers of, or for you Germans Die Siedler von) on Xbox Live Arcade. Indeed, as I’d received a review code for it and all my Xbox can do is play on Live Arcade (due to a 1-month-outside-warranty dead drive) I was ecstatic to do so. […]
Posted in Family Time, Video Games, Opinion on Apr 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Tonight I stayed in with the wife. We’d been experiencing a need for some together time so we indulged each other. And no, not that kind of time. Geez.
What we did do was polish off a bottle of wine and play some Wario Ware Smooth Moves for Nintendo Wii. Now, its not the most obvious […]
Posted in Video Games, Reviews on Feb 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Have you ever had english trifle? It is a desert composed of layers. Each layer is a delicacy unto its own but combined the experience is all the more exquisite, all the more sublime. In that respect, Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is just another layer one what was already a marvelous confection and while […]
Posted in Video Games on Dec 24th, 2006 No Comments »
While I have memories of playing my older brother’s simplistic Pong clone, my first real gaming love was Metroid on the NES, given as a gift to me by my parents in the late eighties. Amusingly it was some time before I really got to experience the pack-in NES title Super Mario Bros., as my […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Dec 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
While in my last adventure I’d set foot outside the snowladden mountainsides beneath the Dwarven capital of Ironforge, I still had plenty of adventuring to do there. Once I’d delivered the ale, I quickly returned to the more familiar environments.
And the first item on the agenda was vengeance. A vendetta. Retribution. When my companions and […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Dec 12th, 2006 No Comments »
One thing I’ve really neglected to dwell on in the semi-review capacity of this series is something at the core of the World of Warcraft experience: graphics and sound. Perhaps if I were playing another MMO this would be a secondary concern, but in World of Warcraft it certainly isn’t as this game is simply […]