Not much to say about Racing the Beam beyond what’s in the column. Buy the book if you are interested in the hardware/software relationship. Monfort and Bogost do a very good job. Re the Street Fighter movie, I do things for my job that are harder than anyone can appreciate. The Legend of Chun-Li is […]
Entries from March 10th, 2009
Print Screen: Racing the Beam and Street Fighter Movie
March 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Print Screen: Racing the Beam and Street Fighter Movie · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
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Losing the Intimate Epic
March 7th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Creative Assembly, Design
“Epic” is a terrible word to use when you talk about video games. It’s usually just reviewer shorthand for “This is big” or “This is long” or “Worlds will shatter”. It’s been used to the point where it is as useless a descriptor as “fun”, “immersive” or “easy to learn, hard to master”. Part of […]
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Three Moves Ahead Now On iTunes
March 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Subscribe before I get bored of it. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=307176617
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Empire: Total War Review
March 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · 1up, Creative Assembly, Review
You can find it over here. I’ll have more to say tomorrow, but I shouldn’t do two long posts in a single day with a column still to finish.
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Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
March 5th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Design, Feature:Map, History
For an explanation of what this series is about, go here. It’s been 25 years since Dan Bunten and EA released Seven Cities of Gold for the Atari 800, Commodore 64 and Apple II and it’s still the most influential strategy game ever made. I guess one of the Blizzard real time strategy games would […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 2
March 3rd, 2009 · 20 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
The second episode of TMA talks about Halo Wars, Demigod, Sins of a Solar Empire and Empire: Total War, with slight detours into Lord of the Rings Online, if Jeff Green is allowed to talk anymore and whether or not it is cool to use Google while podcasting. My panelists are Julian Murdoch, Tom Chick […]
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