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Cooking at its nerdiest: 100 Cupcakes, 100 Games
What happens when you mix cooking, gamers and a bunch of time? Well over at SteelHead Studios, they posted an amazing blog post regarding celebrating their annual gaming party where they baked 100 cupcakes to celebrate. The cupcakes depict some of the most classic board games and video game titles out there. They have the [...]
Cities XL MMOMFG Review
Growing up, one of my all-time favorite franchises was SimCity. I spent countless hours building and perfecting metropolises, and took some serious pride in my work. So I was pretty excited to hear about Cities XL, which aims to take city-building sims into the online age, with online resource trading and interaction with other players [...]
Roundtable: Open-World or Linear Games?
This week’s roundtable discussion: Do you prefer open-world or linear games?
Guitar Hero 5 Aims to Rock Your Freaking Socks Off
Today saw the release of Activision’s Guitar Hero 5, the latest entry in the insanely popular “band” genre of games. GH5 continues the Guitar Hero tradition of adding more celebrity guitarists/musicians, in this case including Kurt Cobain (!), Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana, Shirley Manson of Garbage, and Matt Bellamy of Muse. I never knew that [...]
New Era for Game Pricing?
I was excited to see an article today announcing that at least one innovative game developer has decided to try a bold new pricing scheme similar to that of Radiohead’s 2007 album In Rainbows. The developer Eidos Interactive will allow people to pay whatever they think is fair for a copy of Championship Manager 2010, [...]
Modern Video Games are Easy
I’m turning the big 3-0 this week, so I’ve been playing video games for a looooooong time now. I remember getting an NES for Christmas back when I was about 6 or 7, and it being one of the greatest moments of my life (it still may be). Before that, my brother and I played [...]
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