Monday, August 18, 2008

Defend Your Castle - review


Defend Your Castle - review



A portion of an ONM review At only 500 Wii Points, Defend Your Castle is one of the cheapest WiiWare games yet. Considering it was based on a free online game that can still be played by anyone with a PC or a Mac, we suppose that was a sensible decision. Full review here
http://www.nintendowiigamereviews.com/769/defend-your-castle-review/


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Friday, August 15, 2008

Marathon


Marathon



The Marathon trilogy was the best set of games for the Mac. Not only was it a fun fist-person shooter with creative levels, but it had an engaging story in which enemies became allies and you had to fight for your own sanity. Its no surprise to me that the creators of Marathon went off and created the ber-hit, Halo. Anyway,the entire Marathon trilogy is available on-linewith patches for todays operating systems, Mac or Windows. Im playing Marathon 2 again, 13 years later (that makes m
http://www.nijomu.com/blog/?p=196

Don't waste your time on the the new role-playing game being promoted at Penny Arcade



Today at Penny Arcade, Tycho promoted a role-playing game called Eschalon, Book I. I downloaded the demo and spent about 20 minutes with it. The game's graphics are ten years out of date (and not remotely appealing), and the story and setting are equally cliched. The final straw was that when I clicked on an item, my character didn't automatically walk toward it. Move along. If you're looking for a free game to play, then try one of these.
http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2008/08/dont-waste-your-time-on-the-new-role.html

Osama Loves Video Games



A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a representative of the website OsamaLoves.com. The aim of the site is to show that not all Osamas are terrorist hell-bent on seeing the end of all Americans and apple pie. Their aim is to collect the pictures of 500 Osamas holding up a cue card explaining what they love! They also plan on making a documentary with the same purpose.
http://towardsmecca.com/2008/08/04/osama-loves-video-games/



Wednesday, August 13, 2008

N’gai, publicity, older games


ngai, publicity, older games



The latest Brainy Gamer podcast is up, and its an interview with NGai Croal. The whole things great, go listen to it, but in particular one thing that he talked about is something thats been on my mind: the way that enthusiast press coverage of videogames is heavily weighted towards the preview period. Ive talked about this before, so I dont want to belabor the point, but its nice to hear more people saying this. And he said something else that I thought Id noticed but was glad to have
http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/08/ngai-publicity-older-games/