This is my favorite in-game title scene to date.
The main screen makes it look like a B movie, with the blunt, effective, high-contrast, attention-demanding typography and the cheap, brash attitude: lightning strikes on the high tide of a forgotten, foreboding island, with the remains of a shipwreck on the front. I mean that in the best possi [...]
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Tomb Raider (PC)
This is my favorite in-game title scene to date.
The main screen makes it look like a B movie, with the blunt, effective, high-contrast, attention-demanding typography and the cheap, brash attitude: lightning strikes on the high tide of a forgotten, foreboding island, with the remains of a shipwreck on the front. I mean that in the best possi [...]
Alpha Protocol (PC)
Alpha Protocol. You will wait behind corners quite a bit. I’m a fan of the surprise attack from the front – if you’re decisive enough, you don’t have to creep up from behind guys to surprise them.
The “Espionage RPG” starts off very clumsy. I expect a lot of people to stop playing before they’re even properly out of th [...]
Halo 4 (Xbox 360)
Halo 4 cover. It’s very Halo.
Day 1. Campaign.
This localisation thing is beyond stupid. Forcing Finnish players to use the Finnish text? Really? Fixed by changing your console’s locale to, say, the UK, but come on. It would be a single menu option to change the language used.
Seeing Cortana’s more human features – weird, it feels [...]
Warframe (PC)
Warframe screenshot
The core gamer free to play field is filling fast. Most of my gaming time on the PC is already spent on Ghost Recon Online, with the occasional night of Hawken, Mechwarrior Online or World Of Tanks. Warframe represents something we haven’t really seen before: it’s a third-person dungeoncrawling brawler, with heavy co-op fo [...]
WiiU and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (W...
The cover art paints a far more epic picture than you’re likely to encounter in practice.
I don’t have a long history with Monster Hunter. I’ve played one of the PSP titles maybe a dozen hours, but could never get very far into it because of the difficult controls. It’s still an intriguing concept and something I want to like.
THE WIIU
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Strike Suit Zero (PC)
The Strike Suit Zero space is really very pretty almost all the time. No dogfight has ever looked this nice.
I almost didn’t get to write this post, as initially Strike Suit Zero was way too hardcore for me. I just couldn’t get through the first mission with the actual giant robot – essentially part of the tutorial. TheyR [...]
Goodbye, Lucasarts: The things you ga...
I want to say that Lucasarts made me love videogames, but that’s not true. I do think I learned to love them more deeply thanks to Lucasarts. Here’s my most cherished memories with their games.
Maniac Mansion’s awesome cover art
MANIAC MANSION
The Finnish review in MikroBitti was great, recalling slasher flicks and painting it quite a b [...]
Defense Grid (PC)
Defense Grid
Comfort gaming
It’s a common question. “What game do you go back to, over and over again?” I always thought I didn’t have an answer to that as I’m always looking for new things to play, but some time ago I realized I do, actually. My comfort game is Defense Grid (PC).
Defense Grid was the first game I installed on my new home des [...]
Thirty Flights Of Loving (PC)
Thirty Flights Of Loving
Small form gaming
In journalism the long-form is making a return. That’s a great development, if somewhat paradoxical with the proliferation of time spent on smartphones and ever smaller chunks at a time on one specific thing. The rise of tablets is certainly a part of it, being more suited to reading than phones or c [...]
In search of positive, responsible ga...
Zzap!64, issue 41. My childhood in a picture.
I spoke at an event (hosted by Pelitaito) yesterday with the above topic. Some of this is stuff I’ve been talking and writing about for years, but it went down well so I decided to just rewrite it in English.
SOCIAL, RESPONSIBLE CULTURE
I reacted negatively to the topic given to me. Yes, you shoul [...]
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