Archives

Developer: Piranha Bytes Publisher: JoWooD Productions Software AG Released: August 21, 2003 Available for: Windows Time Played:  Finished Verdict: 5/5 Gold Star “Imagination is one of the main reasons we play games. As the saying goes, our imagination can contain worlds, but it’s also nice when it can frolic in a place already made whole by other, perhaps better …

I have to repeat this news, which I just saw on Kotaku – an upcoming 360 game (set for release in Japan only, alas) called My Wife: A Bride for You Only allows players to customize many aspects of their digital bride, from their anime eyes to their squeakily annoying voices. There are even love-based …

I bet if corporations could feel fear, nothing would make them tremble quite like the phrase “Class Action.” Sony Computer Entertainment just heard it, though; Slashdot reports that a gamer in California (natch) has filed the first class-action suit against the company for removing the “Install Other OS” feature in its latest PS3 firmware revision. …

Ladies, gentleman and cyber geeks; the humble 3 and a half inch floppy is no more. In a move that will shock few and actually affect even fewer, Sony have revealed their intentions to cease production and sales of the aged storage format in Japan, effectively calling time on the  floppy’s very existence. With Sony …

As some visitors may have noticed, over the past 4-6 days we have been experiencing intermittent timeouts and other bad-kitty behavior, which makes us sad. Please bear with as we work through the problem. If you encounter a timeout or gateway error, just try the site again in a few minutes. Apologies for the inconvenience! …

Developer: Sports Interactive Publisher: SEGA Released: 13 April 2010 Available for: iPhone Time Played: 3 Seasons Verdict: 4/5 Thumbs Up “Although some key features have been lost in translation between the PC and iPhone versions of Football Manager, inevitably so given the vast difference in resources available to the two formats, Football Manager Handheld is …

So, it’s my birthday and I’ll Tap if I want to.

Review by Lewis B Hamlet Developer: Alawar Entertainment Publisher: Alawar Entertainment Released: April 2010 Available for: PC Time Played: Finished Verdict: 2/5 Rotten Egg “With some good puzzles and graphics that appeal, Alawar Entertainment could have made something special. Sadly, Alawar’s Hamlet is tragically slim in its design and falls far short of titles it …

It’s been awfully… quiet… around here, something I know is unrelated to my own (temporary) inability to speak, and something I choose not to attribute to my recent injury-addled adjustment (now undone) to the top banner so thoughtfully provided for us by our own Gregg B. Instead I choose to believe that everyone is just… busy, and my frantic attempts to have someone, anyone, look at the GOD DAMNED PHP IT WILL TAKE YOU LIKE NINE SECONDS TO FIX I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH IT FOR FIVE DAYS help me out with some tech stuff are not so much my mute voice falling on cruelly deaf ears, but on ears carrying out their own appointed duties.

I had kinda thought the aforementioned Gregg, being our great lover of and expert in indies, might have mentioned this one – plus I’m honestly not sure what to make of it. Independent developer Jason Rohrer found (indie) fame for his simple, haunting game The Passage, one which (for obvious reasons) reminded me of and disturbed me as much as the once-more aforementioned Gregg’s find Every Day the Same Dream. Rohrer’s newest work, Sleep is Death… well, as I said, I don’t know what to make of it. I do know that it has a chance to be the start of something big.

The stampede toward the exit continues at Infinity Ward, despite parent company Activision/Blizzard still refusing to pay the studio hundreds of millions in royalties owed for the success of Modern Warfare 2. The current departure list stands at eleven, not including the fired COO/CEO/CTO/CCOs Jason West and Vince Zampella. According to a source I know …