T-R Regular and all-around-good-guy Igor Hardy of A Hardy Developer’s Workshop is pleased and proud to announce the demo release of his own game, Frantic Franko: A Bergzwerg Gone Berserk. As crazed and campy as the title makes it out to be, FF is sure to charm slightly off-kilter adventure lovers with its clever conversation …
I’m proud to present our latest Celebrity Guest, Thomas J. Allen, Executive Director of the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers (NAViGaTR). My first collaboration with Tom was back in 2005, an article on Quality of Life in the games industry, eventually (after after 18 months and 21 drafts) published in Develop Magazine across the pond in Europe. Tom and I have since appeared together on industry panels, collaborated on other articles like this one, and generally created our own brand of trouble. Tom is one of those people with 10-12 wild schemes cooking at once, and I’ve managed to participate in a few of them without losing my life or spotless criminal record.
One of Tom’s many passions is film, so today he presents us with a rumination on what the last few years might have been like had the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which so recently announced that it was switching to ten nominees for Best Picture instead of five, decided to do so earlier. As with our other Celebrity Guests, Tom will hang around for a while to respond to comments. Enjoy!
— Steerpike
News across the wire (well, it’s yesterday’s news, we at Tap-Repeatedly pride ourselves on the timeliness of our reporting) states that id Software, once-mighty creators of DOOM, Quake, and… well, of DOOM and Quake, has been acquired by the mysterious ZeniMax Media Group, the parent company that also owns Bethesda Softworks of Elder Scrolls and …
By now, I’m assuming you’ve all heard about LucasArts’ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition? No? Venture forth from the cave, people. It’s a brave new world! Okay, so it’s not going to stop chunky, middle-aged people from wearing low-rise jeans, but is it a reboot of a much loved classic adventure game – …
Recent game industry trade articles have been bandying about the very real possibility that GameStop’s lucrative used game sales are going to begin to tank as the digital distribution model grows. Is all that yummy buy low/sell high action going to just fade away? GameStop doesn’t seem to be too concerned. IndustryGamers reports on a …
Review by Meho Krljic Let’s Tap Developer Prope Publisher SEGA Released June 16, 2009 Available for Wii Time Played It’s not about length, it’s about love Verdict: 4/5 Thumbs Up “If imagining a scene where four people tap on pizza boxes furiously, sweating, cursing, breaking into tears (and, well, yes, breaking stuff with thrown Wiimotes …
Did I mention I’m a sucker for strategy games even though I lack the strategy gene? Unless clicking all around the menus adding buildings because they’re pretty is considered a strategy. Anyway, I spent most of this past weekend playing around with Related Designs’ demo of their newest entry in the Anno series – Anno …
In a recent New York Times Magazine article by Tom Vanderbilt, he wonders how the Internet data centers we have built can keep up with our massive use. After reading the article, I felt like crawling into the fetal position, covering my head and eyes, and just waiting for the end of the universe to …
Good news for slackers, procrastinators, and ne’er do wells: Casual Collective’s Desktop Tower Defense Pro is now available, free, here. Enjoy 24 scenarios and a more robust tutorial, plus a bevy of other goodies, from new creep types to multiplayer mode. Hope you don’t have any afternoon meetings scheduled!
In a recent posting, I expressed curiosity about what makes a game a sure fire winner.Statistically, only two percent of games actually return a profit to their developers, so I asked the question, “Why do some games, like Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Max Payne and others become such winners in the marketplace?” One of you …