Category: Games

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, this year E3 plans to more stringently apply the dress code. No nudity, semi-nudity or bikini bottoms, on pain of a verbal warning, then $5000 fine and ejection from the show. Booo! Does this mean I’m going to have to take photos of screens this year? That never… Continue reading E3 to enforce booth babe dress code

Apparently it’s a sort of celebration of video games. So I am wondering what to do about it… I could just carry on as normal and spend my Saturday playing games (*cough* WoW *cough*)? I could get out some of the old ones (at least, the ones that can run on 120V/NTSC)? Or I could… Continue reading Winter-een-mas?

Back in the day, I used to play Everquest. Recently SoE sent me an email saying they reactivated my account for 30 days. No doubt a ploy to get people playing again. Anyway I decided to reinstall so that I could give away all my stuff languishing on my characters. 2.5k platinum donation for a… Continue reading The great Everquest giveaway

‘“Those industry fat cats try to put a price on my music, but it wants to be free,” the canine bard says in a dialogue bubble at the bottom of the screen, after performing and giving away “copies” of a tune.’ Just another reason we love the Animal Crossing series… teaching kids that sharing is… Continue reading Go Totakeke!

Namco have some new Katamari shirts. I don’t think much of them, actually, except the balloon one. But I am tempted by the “Panic Designs” further down the page.

They brought us the best of Japanese RPGs, and they did it with a passion for quality that is rare. Alundra, Lunar, Growlanser Generations, Arc the Lad, even the brutally tough Thunder Force V: Perfect System: all great titles we wouldn’t have seen otherwise. And they were one of the few software houses that cared… Continue reading Working Designs R.I.P.

What a pile of tripe. Thank goodness I had it taped and the remote control handy – I managed to watch the two hour show in under an hour. It was even worse this year than last year. At least David Jaffe managed to inject a note of normality: God of War was probably the… Continue reading The Spike Video Game Awards

The latest gaming craze that seems to be sweeping (my corner of) the world is Geometry Wars Evolved. It’s an XBox 360 game you can download through XBox live. Everyone in our office is playing it since we discovered it last week… it’s a Robotron-alike with particle effects all over the place. Great fun! My… Continue reading cutting edge gaming

October is with us again, and that means the 11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is here. This year we have: 17 Z-code 7 TADS (including 1 TADS3) 2 Glulx 1 Hugo, 1 Alan, 5 Adrift And of course, 3 Windows native executables. Well I’m not holding out much hope for those (especially with names like… Continue reading IF Alert!