This post was originally going to be in reference to this revelation that a student had been kicked out of school for creating a Counter Strike map closely resembling his school. This was all in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, when self-possessed individuals were trying to (yet again) blame video games. Thankfully [...]
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dreamfall episodic (or chapters, if you will) 0
Ragnar let spill the very happy news that Dreamfall’s story will continue. He’s already fended off nay-sayers of the episodic format with a follow up Q&A. First of all I’m ecstatic that Funcom decided to continue the story. TLJ and Dreamfall represent the equivlent of a very good independent film that was meant to [...]
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Upcoming Releases 2
A nice laundry list of all the games I’m looking forward to in (hopefully) the near future. Unfortunately, almost none listed have concrete dates. Oh well. Quest For Glory II (AGD Interactive) AGD is a group of independent developers remaking some of the old Sierra games that never got true VGA releases. Their two previous [...]
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Oh… My… God! 0
Check out this game!! First check out this video. Its 35 minutes of a developer’s conference presentation. Here’s the homepage. This has to be the most original yet at the same time build upon all the games that have come before it. Unbelieveable. I cannot wait! Oh my! I’m speechless at the moment. I’m not [...]
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New Dreamfall Trailer 0
Dreamfall is the highly anticipated squel to The Longest Journey, which in my opinion was one of the best true adventure games to come along since Sierra Online was in its heyday. The trailer looks to keep true to the spirit. You won’t see mind blowing video sequences. In fact it looks like they took [...]
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San Andreas 0
Jeff has a good post on controversial Hot Coffee mod that has for some mind-blowing reason made its way to Washington where crass old politicians decide Hey, I’m going to look out for the children and appeal to all the other old crass voters out there that I’m taking a stand on this evil culture [...]
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Dreamfall : The Longest Journey 0
Back in the summer of my sophomore year in college (2000 or 2001) while Jeff and I were working at Vialta, one lunch time we stumbled upon a review of a new game from Finland. It hadn’t yet been released in the US (I don’t think they had yet secured a US publisher). It was [...]
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