My review of Knights of Honor is published in this month’s (July) Computer Games Magazine. It’s an enjoyable little game that has ambitions bigger than its originality. It treads some very familiar territory and seems to intentionally mimick every Medieval strategy game from the last five years. This melange of other similar games mixes to […]
Entries from June 6th, 2005
Review update – Knights of Honor
June 6th, 2005 · Comments Off on Review update – Knights of Honor · Uncategorized
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New Carnival of Gamers – and a cooldown
June 5th, 2005 · Comments Off on New Carnival of Gamers – and a cooldown · Uncategorized
Another Carnival of Gamers – a collection of gaming blog posts – will be held at Mile Zero on June 9th. Check it out soon. If you do go to Mile Zero, you will notice this little rant about a mini-controversy over the last Carnival. Thomas links to all the relevant parts of what passes […]
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Games That Never Were: Twilyt Productions
June 5th, 2005 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
How many games never get made because of where the developer is based? How many silicon dreams are dashed on the shoals of local interest? One such story is the tale of Twilyt Productions, a South African company that sought to bring the violence of the colonial African period to your desktop. It announced two […]
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Joining the 21st Century
June 3rd, 2005 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Thanks to Jim over at Bastard Numbered, I now have expandable posts for lengthier bits of fluff. The “read more” tag will be at the of every post, but, sadly, not all of them actually have more to read. Confused? Don’t be. It’s just a way I can get more stuff on the front page […]
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Calvin and Hobbes
June 2nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · Design
Your favorite cartoon brat and stuffed tiger started as two of the great thinkers of the 16th and 17th centuries. John Calvin was the great Reformer whose strong opinions on right, wrong and the inevitable led to Puritanism and Presbyterianism. Thomas Hobbes was one of the first philosophers to put forth that all men were […]
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Yet another reason not to get cable
June 2nd, 2005 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
This year’s E3 Game Critics Awards will be televised on the testosterone fueled Spike TV. Given that these awards are being judged by industry experts, I hope there will be a little more class and maturity than has been on display at Spike TV’s annual game awards orgy, which usually has more rappers and B-movie […]
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