2008

New Dwarf Fortress is out

YES

Awesomecast

Gamersiwthjobs is one of the best gaming podcasts out there, and this week’s episode has a...

The most boring announcement ever

www.dragonage.bioware.com Look, I’m going to be honest. Dragon Age sounds great. The pedigree...

Starcraft II looks really boring

From Blizzard’s FAQ on the SC2 website: How will StarCraft II be different from StarCraft?...

Is Blizzard too conservative?

In an otherwise laudatory post, Fallout 3 producer Ashely Cheng bemoans Blizzard’s decision to...

Is Ninja Gaiden 2 Tomb Raider (with more...

I’ve been playing Ninja Gaiden 2, which is a very good game ( so far, at least ), and...

A nugget of Dragon Age info

Remember Dragon Age, Bioware’s gritty PC-exclusive take on fantasy roleplaying? It’s...

Soren Johnson vs. Jeff Green

Here is a great Soren Johnson interview on 1up, where he talks about Spore, the PC Market, and other...

Is Spore hot coffee waiting to spill?

People are already creating amazing things with the Spore creature creator (I realise this...

Sporations

So the Spore Creature Creator is out, and everyone is playing Dr. Frankenstein. Here are some of my...

I took a bike ride this weekend. It had stormed the previous night, and one section of the bike path...

The Drubbing

May NPD numbers: Hardware numbers: Wii - 675,100 units Nintendo DS - 452,600 units PlayStation 3...

Important announcement

Stop saying that Spore has been in development for eons. It hasn’t been. It’s been in...

Dawn of War 2

I am excited. 1up has a preview of Relic’s Dawn of War 2 up (and supposedly a podcast coming...

Sleight of hand

I just can’t get into card games. As a much younger man, I played Magic: The Gathering until...

Another Spore trailer

More Spore. I can’t wait to slip that hot creature creator into my hard drive.

Happy trails

Unless you’re out of work or a college student, you probably don’t have all the time you...

Penny Arcade overload

OK this is the last post about Penny Arcade for awhile, but I found this cool podcast where the PA...

Rain-slick precipice of darkness update

I said yesterday that I wasn’t sure about the combat - I am now sure. The battles in this game...

Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick...

So I downloaded the new Penny Arcade game yesterday, and like many I imagine, I was struck by how...

Those crazy German kids

This Shacknews preview of Far Cry 2 makes it seem like the game is going in a very interesting,...

Mass Effect review

Clicken thee unto this link, and inhale the soothing vapors of Eurogamer’s Mass Effect PC...

New Spore video

Here is a new Spore video that focuses on the creature creator (which is coming out in about a...

Dwarf Fortress interview

If you’ve lately caught yourself thinking “man, it would be great to hear an interview...

The paper chase

The NPD figures for consoles and software don’t mean a whole lot to me. They’re...

Shine a light

Read this Kieron Gillen piece on Gears of War right now, because it is excellent and well worth the...

Not chosen

Apparently, NBA Ballers: Chosen One is not very good. Making a good basketball game is extremely...

SecuROM, DRM

I don’t know what to think about all this bruhaha. DRM for PC games is as inevitable as the...

Use your six-axis to steer Legolas'...

Pandemic is making a Lord of the Rings game. It’s called The Lord of the Rings: Conquest....

Ken Levine's X-Com

I forgot to mention that I’m super excited about Ken Levine remaking X-Com, which I happen to...

Is open-world a genre?

It may be quibbling, but do open-world games constitute an emerging genre? It doesn’t seem...

The prevailing current

Sometimes I find myself confounded by mainstream gamer opinions. For instance, I had no idea that...

Will Wright interview

There’s an excellent interview with Will Wright about game design and game design theory over...

Iron Man

  I’ve always liked Iron Man, the weapons-dealer turned superhero who fights communism (or...

1up asks the question: Are we what we...

1up has an interesting feature about what the roles we play in videogames have to say about...

Welcome to the 21st century (GTA IV...

Grand Theft Auto IV is, from all accounts, a truly massive game with literally hundreds of hours of...

GTA IV cost $100 million

Courtesy of the erstwhile Shacknews, it has been revealed that GTA IV cost $100 million to make....

So Many Dynamos

I saw So Many Dynamos last night at a small venue in town called The Basement. Quite appropriately,...

Mea Culpa?

I preordered Grand Theft Auto IV. I just wanted to say that. I rarely preorder games, but the hype...

Raidrops and roses and whiskers on...

There’s nothing like drowning an entire colony of dwarves in rivers of lava to make a frown...

Hawks ascendent

I don’t know what’s going on with Boston v Atlanta, but the Celtics better get their...

Prototype video

Watch this Prototype video, and know hope. But seriously, this game looks pretty fun. There are...

Another Company of Heroes post

As much as I’m enjoying the single-player campaign in Company of Heroes: Opposing Forces, I...

5 things we can learn from Dwarf...

3) Graphics don’t matter as much as you may think This is a short one, but it’s...

Basketball

I can’t believe the Spurs are going to beat the Suns again. Is there no justice in this world?...

5 things we can learn from Dwarf...

4) Randomness is good Every game of Dwarf Fortress is an act of creation: creating stories, creating...

HOME delayed

HOME delayed again. I generally think delays are a good thing, and this is no exception. Making an...

5 things we can learn from Dwarf...

Dwarf Fortress is an amazing game, and it’s not even done. Its mantra - “losing is...

Boob watch

I’d love to try Funcom’s Age of Conan, but there’s no way I can run it on my...

Never let your fans title your next...

Project: Origin is a terrible name. It’s a light-brown spot on a beige wall. A drop of Hi-C in...

Cleromancy

Assassin’s Creed and its excellent sales have been maligned as a triumph of advertising over...

Get some engineers for this fourth...

I have comments now, so if anyone is actually reading this blog feel free to shout, yell, rage, and...

Like a puppet on a string you hold on...

I bought the Company of Heroes expansion pack this morning. I am so weak. Can’t wait to play...

Be my bumper-car, baby

Quick thought: Of all the genres that are bashing together in the metaphysical game-design brain...

ENJOY THIS LINK HUMAN

Tales of the Rampany Coyote (which is a great name for a blog) has a great post about why Vampire:...

Rockstar and the ethos of interactivity

Game design is in a knockdown, drag out fight with itself right now, and I doubt most gamers realize...

oh the ride's over now

So it turns out I was on the last mission in Company of Heroes, and I just didn’t know it....

When do I get off this crazy ride?

Does Company of Heroes ever end? I’ve been playing this game for what feels like months now....

Thin like paper

Rockstar’s Bully is leaving me high and dry. I was pretty excited about the game when I...

Here's a tip: just be yourself, but more...

There’s a new video up at Gametrailers showing some dev-made footage from the upcoming MMO...

Mealy apples, global warming, laptops in...

I have something to add to the list of things I don’t like about the world: how is there no...

GFW shuts down

This is old news, and I’m not much of a PCgamer anymore (besides Dwarf Fortress), but GFW...

A less PC Witcher

Surfergirl says that the follow up to CDProjekt’s The Witcher will be hitting consoles as well...

Check my style in an eagle-shaped...

We need another blog about videogames like we need a catastrophic level 8 species-terminating...