How to explain World of Goo, an utterly charming PC game? It’s basically sticky blobs that when connected have the ability to bridge gaps, curve around odd contraptions and create pathways for other gooey blobs to get sucked into a giant vacuum-like pipe. Oh, and there’s physics involved. Um, what? I truly don’t have the words. So, here’s a suggestion: first, check out the above video. Of course, it doesn’t reveal too much except that …
Although our travels across the Wasteland may seem impossibly grim, Charon brings a smile to my face every time I turn around.
I always thought (always until this morning) that Strauss Zelnick, owner of ZelnickMedia and head of Take-Two Interactive, was somewhat more intelligent than other game publisher CEOs. EA’s John Ricitiello and Activision/Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick are imbeciles; everyone knows this. Their behavior and public remarks prove them to be, at the very least, mildly impaired and at worst utterly retarded – when Ricitiello or Kotick speak in public, they make Rick Wagoner’s testimony before Congress compare …
Review by Scout The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Developer Bethesda Softworks, LLC Publisher Bethesda Softworks, LLC Released 1996 Available for DOS Verdict: 3/5 Middlin’ “The game is much nastier than Morrowind. You are dumped in a dungeon with snarling monsters everywhere (rats and imps and bears and bats and skeleton warriors and thieves) with no armor or spells and just a sword. Good luck trying to get out. I died about every way possible before …
For those trapped at office jobs with unfettered internet access and a good set of headphones, you can stop your work now and trundle on over to this site, where you’ll find one of the more fascinating and beautiful rhythm games I’ve seen in a long time… like Rez, but dreamier. Seriously. Auditorium will entrance even the curmudgeonliest among us, and promises hours of unproductive leisure. It’s also a pretty amazing example of what a …
The newest installment in Ubi’s money-printing Prince of Persia franchise hits stores today, and the first reviews are beginning to trickle out – notably this one from IGN. There’s really only one way you can take a 9.3, and while I hope that the game actually lives up to this score, I’ve certainly lost all faith in mainstream game journalism since the 8.0-10 scoring the abominable Far Cry 2 received from nearly all ad-supported outlets.
An official trailer for the long-promised Black Mesa total conversion is available above and on their website. Like all really ambitious fan mods, this attempt to completely recreate the original Half Life using the Source engine threatens to be more than its unpaid, indie dev team can chew… though I must say the trailer looks pretty darn impressive. It’s certainly a sight better than the waste-of-a-download Half Life Source that Valve itself provided with Steam …
Movie review by Scout The Statement Directed by Norman Jewison From Sony Picture Classics Released December/12/2003 Available on DVD Verdict: 4/5 Thumbs Up “The best part of the film, by far, is the performance of Michael Caine. His character is an unapologetic racist, a self-serving, violent, manipulative, pathetic, despicable whiny bitch. And you can’t take your eyes off him.”
Valve Software, lovable koala bear of a game producer that it is, has released interesting stats on who has achieved what, Achievement-wise, in their zombiriffic cooperative shooter Left 4 Dead. That’s… really all I’ve got for you. My take on Left 4 Dead, having now actually played it: it’s another win for Valve, whose commitment to quality and finely tuned gameplay are again on display here. And it achieves the heretofore impossible goal of structuring …
From the Department of WTF comes word of a panel of British teenagers who – lacking, apparently, the capacity to recognize that grown-ups do not comprehend sarcasm when it comes from kids – claim that the the UK’s recent spate of knife crime is fueled by violent video games. I don’t… even know where to start with this.
Fresh on the heels of Fallout 3’s release, Bethesda Softworks is announcing the official editor for Fallout 3 – G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) – will be available for free download in December. G.E.C.K. will allow Games for Windows users to create and add their own content to the game. Additionally, Bethesda will offer its first downloadable content – Operation: Anchorage – exclusively for both Xbox 360 and Games for Windows players in January, …
Review by Scout Fallout 3 Developer Bethesda Game Studios Publisher Bethesda Softworks LLC Released October 28, 2008 Available for Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Verdict: 5/5 Gold Star “Play Fallout 3 and you’ll not only be treated to what might turn out to be one of the best Bethesda games ever to come down the pike but you’ll also experience echoes of Deus Ex, Half Life 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and Bioshock. In the end this game …
A few slices of Portal cake to celebrate some big birthdays this week, with Penny Arcade turning ten yesterday and the original Half Life reaching its tenth today. Valve is celebrating by putting the game on sale for $0.98 over Steam, though if you haven’t played it by this point even that price probably isn’t enough to woo you. Neither the game nor the cartoon could be reached for comment regarding birthday wishes, but I …
Autumn Moon Entertainment has released a demo of their much-anticipated comic adventure A Vampyre Story; which chronicles the adventures of opera starlet, Mona De Lafitte and her batty side-kick, Froderick. The demo offers a short look of Mona as she attempts to find graveyard dirt for her coffin in preparation for some travelling. A Vampyre Story is scheduled for a UK release on November 24th; while the word on a US release is listed as …
So the Left 4 Dead demo is now available over the Steam network for normal humans like me who didn’t pre-order the game. With Valve’s highly anticipated online cooperative zombie shooter shambling into retail in a week, the demo servers are already packed with smack-talking, team-fragging, headset-wearing eleven year olds eager to describe in appalling detail what they did with your mother last night.