I’ve heard too many gamers misunderstand Trackmania. It’s a racing game, sure, but with more Hot Wheels blood than Road and Track. Many kids, including myself, carefully constructed a die-cast car track starting from the bed, going down to the floor for a loop-de-loop, and thereafter flinging the car into the unknown. That picture describes Trackmania far …
Our friend Harbour Master over at Alliance of Awesome fellow Electron Dance has been publishing a series of fascinating, heartfelt vignettes on game designers. The latest tells the story of Bill Williams, one of the greatest visionaries of the early home computer period, one his colleagues have called “The Stanley Kubrick of Game Design.” Tragically …
I suppose it’s worth warning you from the get-go that this is as much an opportunity for me to rail just a little against the mediocre 2009 crime thriller The Lodger as anything. But with that said, I promise I’ll try to make it seem like there’s a point to the whole affair so that …
I recently bought a new wireless router. The old one was dog-slow and really unreliable – a problem since I use my 360 for Netflix a lot. Or, rather, I would, had I been able to get a reasonable signal. Instead weeks would go by when Netflix wouldn’t work at all; the rest of the …
Joined by Jon Peters, Jonathan Sharp (with a little input from Chris Lye; someone’s got to control the situation!) sat down with Tap to chat about Guild Wars 2’s professions: their inception, strategy, and design choices; whilst also taking the time to answer a good handful of questions solicited from the Guild Wars 2 Guru community. Hit …
Star Wars: the Old Republic is just not working for me and besides Baldur’s Gate, I’ve never really found any Bioware games of interest. The latest trailer released demonstrates very sandy gameplay footage of Tatooine, where we follow a Sith sorcerer as he quests grumpily around the desert. The most striking thing for me is the …
He doesn’t really need help, precisely, since he’s got five books out, two movies nearing production, a show on the Travel Channel, and a fluffy hairdo, but you should help him all the same.
June 9 has arrived, meaning my considerably more successful brother Marcus is celebrating the release of his fifth novel, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes. Go! Go buy it!
Then come back and read the series of amusing anecdotes below.
I don’t tend to talk about much other than MMOGs here in the Tap silo. I’m sure I drive you all mad; they’re my vice you see. Today though I’ll make an exception and discuss the latest Nintendo console. Briefly, I might add, considering I was more excited when having my tonsils removed than watching …
E3 is upon us and besides all the usual PR nonsense, nothing has really caught my eye so far (although, I must admit the new Tomb Raider has potential). The latest trailer of From Dust has surfaced and it’s absolutely stunning, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say it “Looks literally too amazing …
Review by Brandon “Dix” Perdue L.A. Noire Developer Team Bondi & Rockstar Games Publisher Rockstar Games Released May 2011 Available for PS3 (version reviewed), Xbox 360 Time Played Finished all cases, including 3 DLC cases (20+ hours) Verdict: 4/5 Thumb Up One of the best detective games to date…but not quite the stuff dreams are …