World in Conflict Demo Impressions

Okay so it’s a little late to be of use, the sale price on GamersGate was stopped yesterday (the reason why I played the demo), but I didn’t have enough time to have played and then written this up, hopefully there’ll be another good price at some point in the future and this will be [...]

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Progress

Due to the interest in the PCG settlement I’ve edited this post to be easier to understand.  If you are looking for directions just skip down and start reading.  If you are looking for the old instructions, with pictures of the settlement in it’s early stages, skip to the bottom and select page 2.  If [...]

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Elbow Bone Games

I must be in a list mood at the moment, or it could be that I’ve just been a bit busy the last few days. Anyhoo, funny moments in games were around well before rag doll physics, but games who’s main focus is being funny are much rarer than you’d have thought.  Here is a [...]

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Clean Out Your Ears

Just a small one today, a short list of what I think is some of the best game music. Whilst some games shouldn’t have music, for most it can add so much depth and is unfortunately one of the most overlooked aspects when designing a game.  Along with a brief comment on why I like [...]

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Battlestations: Pacific Demo Impressions

Genre-straddling games never seem to reach the heady heights we imagine they could, and yet they don’t do badly most of the time either.  They are left in the muddy middle ground.  From my brief play of the demo Battlestations:  Pacific seems to fall into this slot quite nicely, although doing slightly better than most [...]

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