Category Archives: Games

Out of Hundreds of Possible Integers They Go With “One”?

A couple of friends have asked what I think about the Xbox One reveal the other day and to be honest, I didn’t really pay much attention to it. I just got my 360 last year, so the idea of … Continue reading

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A Visual Guide to the World of The Convoy (sort of)

The Convoy is a new two-player game by the creator of and set in the world of Neuroshima Hex and 51st State/The New Era, which is a ravaged, post-apocalyptic USA. In The Convoy, the robotic hordes of Moloch are headed … Continue reading

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Electronic Games Sunday: I Had a Title Picked Out For This But It Was Too Much, Even By My Admittedly Low Standards

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Stay A While, And…Hey, Where Are You Going?

A year ago on this very blog I was worried that Diablo 3 was overheating my computer. I hadn’t done any current-era gaming on this machine before and had no idea if this was okay or not (it was okay). … Continue reading

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“What Kind of Death?” “The DANGEROUS Kind.”

This crazy thing dropped a week ago and I interrupted Prince of Persia to play it. Blood Dragon is a strange thing, it’s basically a Far Cry 3 mod, but completely separate from and playable without the original game. It’s … Continue reading

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Electronic Games Sunday: Pliant Females

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Electronic Games Sunday: The Myth of the “Software Mugger”

From an article called, “Menace of the Software Pirates” in the May ’85 issue: I knew a fair number of hackers, crackers, phreakers, and pirates, and never once heard the term “software mugger”. A Google search calls into question that … Continue reading

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Game Design Status Report #8: Cranking the Dial

Say hello to prototype #2! You can click on that image to make it bigger. Got all that? Now say goodbye to prototype #2. By the time you read this it will have begun its transformation into prototype #3. Earlier … Continue reading

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