I’m still kicking around the idea of doing one straight-up game review a week, with some material at the top with content warnings for parents. We’ll call it Fun Fridays and have cupcakes and lemonade! This week, we turn to a remake of the third greatest PC game of all time, a little something called… [...]
You read that right. PopCap and the American Dental Association are teaming up to offer free copies of Plants vs. Zombies to trick or treaters this Halloween. The “Stop Zombie Mouth” campaign is aimed at replacing tooth damaging candy with a healthy addiction like computer gaming. Just go to the site and print out a [...]
10000000: EightyEight Games, iPhone/Touch/iPad, $2. Content issues: none, unless you’re one of those weird Christians who believe works of fiction containing magic are the devil’s truss or something, in which case … just go away. For iPhone Launch Day, and as a bit of a break from the current whirlwind of fake Jesus news, I [...]
This is a response to a request from Catholic man-about-town Victor Lams, who liked the recent Serious Posts well enough, but urged me to get back to the ding-dang game reviews already. So I give you this oldie-but-goodie: still one of my all-time favorite iOS games. (And Victor, you still owe me two bucks or [...]
Dear Esther (The Chinese Room, PC/Mac/Linux: $10, Rated: NR) is a game without gameplay. It’s essentially a short story that unfolds though first person navigation of a 3D environment. (It started life as a Half-Life mod.) The superb score and atmospheric visuals provide an emotional canvas which is filled gradually with disconnected slices of narrative as [...]
Every year around this time I begin a deeper descent into the world of gaming. As Editor-at-Large of Games Magazine, and a writer for many others, I keep up with games year round, but in July and August, I co-edit the Games Magazine 100, an annual awards issue and buyer’s guide to the best of [...]
I’m still on vacation, but I wanted to share the kind of things that fill up the inbox of your average videogame reviewer. Yesterday, while I was bobbing around in a boat, drinking my beer and minding my own bidness, the PR company for EA Sports sent me a press release headlined “Play as the [...]
Posting will be a bit light this week as I work on the October (yes, October) issue of Games. While you’re pining away for want of G&TM content, you can wile away the hours with ToneMatrix. The developer describes it as a “simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on [...]
Thanks to boing boing, an old post at Got Medieval is getting some fresh attention, and it’s well worth a look at the whole thing. Carl Pyrdum uses the modern conventions of 2D platform-jumping game art to explain the internal logic of medieval illumined manuscripts. His point is that marginal objects in these manuscripts have platforms [...]
One of the puzzles we’ve run in Games Magazine for about 30 years is called “Eyeball Benders.” You need to guess a specific object from an extreme closeup. I was going to just post a picture of this beautiful and important … thing … but I decided to see if anyone can guess what it [...]
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