So you see this girl across the room. She’s beautiful, mysterious, and she’s motioning you over. It could go any direction from here, but right now you think you know everything you need to, right? Wrong! It’s not every day that I bring up my dating history on a gaming website, but there are a… Continue reading
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Ready Player One Book Review: A Video Game Treasure Hunt
So, books, eh? I know, they aren’t technically video games but there are some books, some glorious books, that are about video games. I’d like to take a few minutes from our normal writings on video games to tell you about one such tome. The book is titled Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. If you… Continue reading
Gua-Le-Ni Review: Flippin’ Blocks for Science!
Look out, it’s a Lob-Hog! Or is it a Wart-Ster? I’m not sure, but it’s all a part of Gua-Le-Ni, or: The Horrendous Parade, the inaugural game from Italian game developer Double Jungle. In this new puzzle game for the iPad the idea is to manipulate the order and orientation of a few “taxonomy cubes”… Continue reading
Speaking Code: HTML5 and Games of the Open Web
Games on the web are nothing new. About as long as the internet has existed, it seems like there have been games in the browser. In years past we’ve relied on browser plug-ins like Java, Shockwave, Flash, Silverlight, or Unity to play these games, but a new era is beginning as we speak. As browsers… Continue reading
Glitch Review: Big Free Creativity
You know what’s big? Giants. You know what giants have that are also big? Imaginations! So big in fact, that 11 giants combined their imaginations to create the game world of Glitch. Glitch is a new web-based MMO created by Tiny Speck that allows players to run around one “giant” universe learning, creating, and doing!… Continue reading
Gamer’s Journey: Robotic Operating Buddy
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to see the Robotic Operating Buddy for the NES, or R.O.B, in action. I’d seen about half of the pieces floating around my house growing up, but it always seemed like there wasn’t quite enough there to make it work. This thing looked like an awesome toy,… Continue reading
Pixels and Rocket Science: An Interview with The Last Rocket Creator, Shaun Inman
Being an interactive developer, I’ve been following Shaun Inman for quite a while. He fills that much coveted role of designer/developer/problem solver/creator of all great things very well, and in my industry, that’s the kind of person you want to pay attention to and learn from all you can. Recently he started talking more and… Continue reading
Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on a Pig) Review: All is Right in the World
Internet memes. They’re everywhere now, popping up by the second. One moment you see a turtle humping the crap out of a shoe, quickly followed by a man playing WoW and running to his death while screaming his name. The fact is, the mainstream media is saturated with them now as we have no less than… Continue reading
Gamer’s Journey: Lord of Ultima: Fall of an Empire
I’ve learned a LOT about myself in the recent weeks when it comes to how my “gaming” life and “real” life mix. But one of the biggest things I’ve learned is that my gaming habits do not occur in real time. A couple of months ago I wrote an article detailing my leadership training in the MMORTS Lord… Continue reading
Just 5 More Minutes: Kirby’s Dream Land
I need to talk today about a moment that is important in the life of every young gamer. When we’re young, we have all sorts of influences on our gaming habits. We may have parents who play, older siblings we watch play, or even friends at school we play with. At some point later you… Continue reading
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Recoil Review: Did I Read the Name Right?
Of all of the video game franchises around, many of you probably already know that I hold the Castlevania series nearest and dearest to my heart. From the moment I first caught wind of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, I knew that it was a make or break moment for the series. All previous 3D Castlevania’s… Continue reading
Gamer’s Journey: Lord of Ultima: Leadership Training
Real-time strategy games have never been my cup of tea. I’ve never played any of the Heroes of Might and Magic series. I’ve never played Civilization. And I’ve only played Warcraft III a handful of times. How then do we get to today, where I’m the leader of a quickly-growing alliance in the game Lord… Continue reading