| Really great article (thank you) with a major omission: Warcraft 3. Brilliant for making casual games and arguably developed some great game archetypes today. |
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The old-fashioned joys of journalling, and the modern comfort of maps
Casual game-making through the years: an evolving, instructive joy
Dreamcast: A Forensic Retrospective
| Dreamcast was pretty cool. It kind of nailed what a gaming console should be in my eyes and that is an array of accessible games. Nintendo take that accolade nowadays. |
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Sony takes on the NES mini with the PlayStation Classic
| PS was an amazing console, but it has dated. Won't be buying this. My fond memories are still there. |
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Black & White combined the sublime with the stupid
| Black and white was a superb game. |
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iPad mini review
| still overpriced. |
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Board Games Are Back
| and the baffling thing is- you go in your WHSmith- you see about 10 magazines devoted to railways, and not one devoted to board games. Are board games really that more boring to read about then railways? |
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The Secret World Review
| How a reviewer can say 'little sense of community' while applauding it's solo emphasis. |
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BioWare takes Star Wars The Old Republic queues "seriously"
| Why oh why has it released on the20th December. |
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4m play League of Legends every day
| And still LoL doesn't add guilds, or voice chat. |
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Games of 2010: Robot Unicorn Attack
| Oh dear. I should really try this to establish for sure whether this thread is a wardrobe, or genuinely a top 10 iPhone game of the year. I mean toucharcade put aralon up there, and infinity. But always worth seeing if they're humilitatingly wrong at not including it all in it's top games of 2010. |
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Valve: single player games have a future
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I disagree! (I just want to be the only one on the thread to be neg-repped) |
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Nintendo hints at 3DS launch line-up
| that bloody looks good. |
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Study links violent games to aggression
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_dread... ^Penny dreadfuls. Sociopaths. |
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Valve making DotA 2
| well I'm looking forward to it. From Valve it must be pretty decent. |
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World of Warcraft hits 12m subscribers
| it is 12m because they have a high number of people who bought the game, and there are many casuals of that who login at say catalysm and notch up the number of current subscribers. They can sustain this level for a while I reckon unless they get some good competition. (read Guild Wars 2) |
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New PSP Worms has base building
| Like the idea , but 3d worms has never quite worked out for some reason |
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Civilization V demo out now
| seeing the videos I'm half tempted by this. So I will try the demo. I have not really been a civ fan since civ2 so lets see what its like. |
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Apple: "We don't need more fart apps"
| what? no more fart apps. What am I going to buy now :( |
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Plants vs. Zombies - first 15 minutes
| a gaming great but bloody hell has that fence overgrown since the last edition of PvZ. |
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New PSP has touch-sensitive controls
| as long as it has a better design than the PSP. PSP vs DS vs Iphone. Easy which one is the worst to hold. |
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Chronicles of Spellborn shutting down
| Doesn't look good for small budget mmos when an original one comes along and flounders like this. But, from what it sounds like it was buggered from its launch. The company ran out of money then and its just been a half-arsed effort by whoever took over to get people playing. |
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Next EverQuest game teased
| can't really give old EQ1 a graphics overhaul as its a 10 year old engine. Though the screenshot of this looks like something in Ashenvale... |
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Sid Meier's Civilization V
| Actually my last opinion on this topic as I didn't want to derail it- but just thought it was a silly retort saying gaming is the wrong hobby if you're fed up of seeing another sequel to a game. A valid point perhaps that civ hasn't seen a sequel in 5 years(unless you count civ rev) but not to suggest because you're tired of seeing a sequel to a particular game that gaming is the wrong hobby because that is ridiculous.Which I expect everyone knows anyway hence the knee-jerk reaction of "trolling" so I'll stop here. :) |
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| Don't get up in arms-I've just got civ on my iPhone. My opinion though is since civ2 every civ has just been the same -hardly altering anything. I'd love to see Sid Meier work on a new franchise. |
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"If you get bored with a sequel every 5 years, gaming is probably the wrong hobby. " thats an awful retort :D But whatever you're clearly passionate about it, may I recommend the 'new' worms to you as well ;p |
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| How many sequels does Civ need before people don't get bored? (cue -19 threshold as I make a disagreable comment) |
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
| I'm not WoW's biggest fan, but I'm excited about this expansion. Perhaps the first time in any mmorpg that the whole landscape of existing zones has been altered. Its not as good as the idea of dynamic changes, but its almost as good. Good to see them overhauling some of their rubbish systems they implemented as well. |
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New 2D Worms game dated for PC
| no different than the others really from what I've seen of the video. Good for nostalgics or people who've never tried worms though. |
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Realtime Worlds shows new social game
| interesting. Wonder if it'ld be like active worlds. |
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EverQuest II going free-to-play
| well I'd be tempted to try the free version again. Only because some of the areas looked nice, the game pretty much sucked. |
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Blizzard "probably very arrogant" - Jagex
| not so sure it was arrogance- but not thought through. The idea was good trying to make people accountable on forums and less likely to flame, but it was ill-thought through. |
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FFXIV will have 18 classes at release
| This FF is the 'next big thing'. I just hope the rumours aren't true that they've made it purely control-pad enabled. |
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Guild Wars 2 has no healers or tanks
| I'm curious. Roll on the open beta |
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Driver: San Francisco dated for the UK
| And you have to chase Neo? |
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Steam's summer sale puffs into life
| To #32 , I agree it does look pretty good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85PGB7gXrs |
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ArenaNet: GW2 will fulfil MMO promise
| I had no faith with any mmorpg previously that they could be anything special, but I certainly believe GW2 could be, and will be a very credible alternative to the big goliath WoW. |
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EA launches Tiger Woods Online
| nice game- though doesn't hide the fact it's still bloody golf... |
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Retrospective: Team Buddies
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was this released outside of America? This game reminds me a bit of Hogs of War, an equally brilliant PS game. |
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League of Legends
| a patch on this has completely changed the gameplay on this; less hp towers means lane-pushing is much more effective. So, no long game ultra-itemmed heroes. Problem is now with this patch all but about 8 heroes are locked (as was going to happen) unless you got influence points and they're a pain to earn. (~100 a game and 1350-3150 gold a hero, 30-odd heroes to unlock) |
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| An average critic score of 8.3, an average user-score of 8.2 on gamespot. I think that speaks for itself. Though it has to be said former Dota Allstars players will see the game as marmite either loving or hating it (hence the above 4/10 quip); the lack of denial probably being a pivotal feature in that harsh verdict- which if I'm honest as a game design decision I strongly support Riotgames- I'd prefer to see more new players(or casual players) picking up and playing. (Not to mention how little sense in the first place killing your own troops is.) |
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Does this have any single-player (skirmish) mode at all? And when the review says "free", what's the version sold on Steam? You can play single player with bots and that. And there is a version that LoL sell. Basically the model aims to be that its Free to play and you earn points the more you play to unlock more and more champions or skins. The pay to play you just buy and you start with the choice of all the champions etc. Basically its cool either way, I'd pay but starting with a restricted number of champions (which currently isn't on the Europe version)- you get to learn those champions before getting access to new ones. |
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| it's an excellent game. And I'd definitely have bought this game, very cool they've made this free so there's a bigger pool of players to play against. |
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Retrospective: Nintendo's Handheld Legacy
| does anyone wonder about Yokai, and had his life not been cut short? |
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Ten Level Test: EverQuest II vs Vanguard
| Good choice. I tried both and came to the same conclusion. Only thing I will say is Vanguard could use being a bit more friendly and I didn't go much on it's 'famed' diplomacy system. |
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Dreamcast Cult Classics
| Speed Devils, not one to appeal to the hardcore racers but a quirky fun game. |
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