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• GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

• Shrimp 19/03/2009

  Get off my ice you little wankers! Reply 0

• World in Conflict: Soviet assault - Trailer

• Shrimp 31/05/2008

  Ecranoplanes! Reply 0

• Empire: Total War - Dev Diary #1

• Shrimp 26/05/2008

  Sorry, I'm just bitter. I remember back in Shogun and Medieval 1 (and then maybe also Rome) battles that really felt like they meant something - setting up ambushes, brave last stands, etc. That just seems to have faded away more and more with each iteration. And that's not even mentioning the strategy map AI, although that was always a bit flaky.
  
  I suspect the involvement of focus groups. Reply 0

• Shrimp 23/05/2008

  Is it wrong of me to say "Shut the fuck up and fix the strategy AI?"
  
  Probably. Reply 0

• Darksiders: Wrath of War

• Shrimp 06/04/2008

  Deserves some kind of special award for managing to rip off Shadow of the Colossus and Gears of War in the same game. Who'd have thought it was possible? Reply 0

• Chaos Theory

• Shrimp 15/01/2008

  Yeah, trying to obscure the keyboard from the view of the other players while answering the "ILLUSION Y/N?" prompt. Great days...
  
  And those times when you have an undead creature in an enemy Shadow Wood and have to sit through minutes of the computer trying to attack it with every possible unit: BIDDLYBIDDLYBIP-BIDDLYBIDDLYBIP-BIDDLYBIDDLYBIP-BIDDLYBIDDLYBIP-.... Reply 0

• Aquaria

• Shrimp 18/12/2007

  "at USD 30 it's quite expensive for an indie game"
  
  ...it's also "quite awesome" for an indie game, which more than compensates! It's very close to Zelda/Metroid/Castlevania quality, although having that uncommercialised charm probably biases it a bit for me.
  
  I'm about 20 hours in, and probably very near the end (although i am a bit stuck).
  
  The recipes, costumes and pets are great - there's a lot to discover. Reply 0

• Sex

• Shrimp 28/11/2007

  sexs Reply 0

• DEFCON

• Shrimp 26/05/2007

  Hehe, alright then ;) Reply 0

• Shrimp 26/05/2007

  Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I don't see why they should have to be full of themselves to function, it's just that they are.
  
  If Microsoft changed their slogan to "The Only Software Company in The World", would journalists suddenly start worshiping them? Reply 0

• Shrimp 26/05/2007

  Can someone tell me when the fuck Introversion were EVER the Last of the Bedroom Coders?
  
  Are they from the future or something? Reply 0

• What's New? (4th May, 2007)

• Shrimp 04/05/2007

  > Now gaming and the radio, there's a combo!
  
  Mmmm.... God of War II and the Archers Reply 0

• Cook with Wii

• Shrimp 29/03/2007

  Surely I can't be the only one who misread the headline as "Cock with Wii"? Reply 0

• Eve developer cheats

• Shrimp 12/02/2007

  If this proves anything, it's that Bertie should be made to write more funny stuff for our amusement. Reply 0

• Europa Universalis III

• Shrimp 08/02/2007

  I really enjoyed reading that - nice one. Setting your own goals sounds great.
  
  Definitely going to pick up the demo, I tried EU2 but was pretty baffled - the lack of printed manual in my cheap budget copy didn't help either. Reply 0

• Eno's unique Spore soundtrack

• Shrimp 16/01/2007

  Truely awesome news Reply 0

• Go heading to Live Arcade?

• Shrimp 12/01/2007

  The AI thing is that it is (or maybe was) bloody impossible to write a Go-playing AI, probably due to the vast number of board configurations compared to chess.
  
  Someone's probably made a decent stab at it by now, but there'll never be the Go equivalent of Deep Blue, AFAIK Reply 0

• Dead Rising sequels likely

• Shrimp 10/01/2007

  And a branching storyline Reply 0

• Kuju splits from LucasArts

• Shrimp 09/01/2007

  Nowhere does it say it's been canned... Reply 0

• Exclusive: Dark Sector

• Shrimp 22/11/2006

  This is a glaive
  
  [link url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaive
  ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaive
  [/link]
  
  Thanks Reply 0

• C&C3 heads to Xbox 360

• Shrimp 16/11/2006

  What is it that makes people think they can plug a mouse into a 360 and suddenly a game's user interface code will suddenly reprogram itself to use that instead of a pad? Reply 0

• Updated Medieval II demo

• Shrimp 30/10/2006

  Aztecs then:
  
  [link url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tenochtitlan#Battle_of_Otumba
  ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Te...[/link]
  
  .... i.e. another scripted battle unrepresentative of the normal balanced battles you'd get in Campaign mode. Great. Reply 0

• Bioware forms handheld division

• Shrimp 20/09/2006

  Not sure why a port to the DS implies a dumbed-down twitch-fest. Settlers appears to be exactly the same as the PC version, for example.
  
  This guy in charge of the handheld stuff has come from a pen-and-paper RPG studio, so it should be fairly hardcore.
  
  As for "one type of click", that's no obstacle at all. Tap for a default action, press and hold to bring up a radial menu around the stylus (as in Temple of Elemental Evil, NWN and PST). Job done. Reply 0

• The State of Independence #5

• Shrimp 13/09/2006

  Great comment, completely dwarfed by the mention of dwarfs ;)) Reply 0

• Shrimp 13/09/2006

  Sweet, sweet Dwarf Fortress. I still haven't got to winter without quitting in despair at my inefficient fortress.
  
  The best way to learn is to have the Wiki and official forums open while playing, and do some thorough research whenever the slightest whiff of a new concept turns up. Reply 0