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Monday, May 5th, 2008It’s been a week since Mario Kart arrived and it has been making it’s home in the Wii almost constantly since. I’ve always been a fan of Mario Kart and overall this game was no exception.
Given it’s lack of “Massive Multiplayer” this review falls under the jurisdiction of my single player review criteria.
Gameplay: The largest […]
Single Player Review Criteria Updated
Saturday, March 29th, 2008I have (finally) updated the review criteria for single player games. I didn’t mean for it to take so horrendously long, but I sort of forgot I was setting it up and it fell past the back burner.
I do have a particular game in mind for my first review which should, at the latest, be […]
Roleplaying Character Journals
Sunday, March 9th, 2008One of the tabletop games I’m currently involved in is an air pirate campaign that has us sailing about, pillaging what we like, and generally being good little privateers. The GM knows a good bit about actual pirate history, so he likes to keep us acting a (relatively) realistic fashion. As such, being captain, I […]
Censorship Hypocrisy; Games vs Movies
Monday, October 29th, 2007In a recent gamesindustry.biz editorial Johnny Minkley discussed the grand hypocrisy and controversy surrounding the British Board of Film Classification presently. A rather commonly known story by now; The BBFC refused to give a rating to Manhunt 2, even after the game was revised and reapplied for rating. Effectively this means that the game, […]
What Game Masters and Managers have in common
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007So, I just read this post over at Coderific about What Game Masters and Managers have in common. It seemed an awesomely insightful and wonderful post… for someone who isn’t a normal Tabletop gamer. Obviously the post is aimed at those who don’t game much (or at all) for to those of us who have […]
Cellular Phone Games
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Having joined the mobile age not too long ago, one of the first things I did when I got my phone to check out the games on it. Of course they were just demos, but among them was Zuma. Those unfamiliar with Zuma can do a google search and find it all over the place. […]