Tribes Ascend - up your speed with a gravcycle
Free to play and cheap to play (iOS) continues to dominate my free time, with Skyrim being the only big full price game I’ve put any significant time into all this year. Latest “I can’t believe it’s free” treat is Hi-Rez Studios (Global Agenda) Tribes Ascend. It̵ [...]
Tribes Ascend
Tribes Ascend - up your speed with a gravcycle
Free to play and cheap to play (iOS) continues to dominate my free time, with Skyrim being the only big full price game I’ve put any significant time into all this year. Latest “I can’t believe it’s free” treat is Hi-Rez Studios (Global Agenda) Tribes Ascend. It̵ [...]
Ridge Racer Unbounded
My favorite screenshot. I knew we had nailed the look at this point.
I’ve been working in the games industry for four years now at Bugbear and on the last day of March, my first game was released for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Windows PC. It’s a re-imagination of the fabled Ridge Racer series called Ridge Racer Unboun [...]
Legend Of Grimrock
Legend Of Grimrock. Skeletons and dungeons is where it's at.
Almost Human is a new game studio from Finland who just released their first game, Legend Of Grimrock. I’d be a fan even if they weren’t from around here. They’ve done well on Steam and further adventures are all but guaranteed. I do urge you to buy direct from [...]
iPhone 4S as a gaming device
Infinity Blade II screenshot
I’ve started using an iPhone some months ago. I’m not surprised that there’s twenty-six games on my phone right now, plus a bunch I’ve deleted, but that they hold my attention better than the PlayStation Vita games I got my hands on at the same time is surprising. This is a look at what I c [...]
Girls
Kung Fu Master (C64) has probably the first videogame woman I ever saw. Couldn't find a picture of her to use here. Just to break the norm on stories about females in games, this is the only image in this story.
I can’t believe I haven’t written about women as characters in games before, certainly I’ve talked about them [...]
How to run D&D 4E with minimum t...
Adorable picture of Japanese kids playing RPGs. I tried to find the artist so I could link, but couldn't
I have a background in running and playing (mostly running) tabletop roleplaying games for over twenty years. I consider myself highly skilled in gamemastering. My library of games covers pretty much everything in terms of style, mec [...]
Skyrim
Skyrim. Hot damn they've improved from Oblivion's tasteless fantasy tropes
My wife got me Ready Player One for Christmas. It’s pretty good for a kid born in the 70s, and its themes of virtual worlds and their relation to the real world gels really well with a science fiction thing I’ve been working on. Then I started playi [...]
Dungeons & Dragons Essentials af...
T-shirt design by Penny Arcade
I’ve been running a lot of D&D Essentials lately. I think it’s interesting to see how my initial expectations have fared against nine games into a campaign and a couple of off-shoots.
I’ve ended up with a lot of stuff I have no use for.
The characters are created using the online Dungeons & [...]
Kane & Lynch 2
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
I found the first Kane & Lynch an important game. It was not very good as an action title – although by no means bad, either – but it was very interesting.
Games should generally be more interesting.
What made it interesting was its sad bastards of protagonists. These guys are the same in the seque [...]
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
I had to have Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3 instead of Xbox 360 because of the free multiplayer. (I gave up on Xbox Live Gold due to over a year of not using it.) This is surprising considering that there is little direct playing together with other people going on. I’ve played for over 30 hours and had one invasion where a [...]
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