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Preview: Soul Trapper; Hands-On with Realtime Audio Adventures

Realtime Associates, Inc. is a game developer with a long history. They were founded in the days of the Intellivision, and over the last 20+ years, they’ve been involved with 85 different games across almost every game platform known to man. Dave Warhol, the company’s president and founder, put Realtime together originally to focus on […]

Computer Games | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 7th November 2008

MoshiMonsters - new parental controls, consent “assumed”

From the latest newsletter, at the bottom (after the big graphics and announcement about “moshlings” - aka mini-moshi-monsters (my - this is getting a bit infinitely recursive, isn’t it? Now your child’s pet has a pet :). I’m still trying to attract an interesting Moshling (the minigame to get them is Animal Crossing crossed with […]

Computer Games | 1 Comment | Permalink | Posted on : 2nd November 2008

Review of Will Wright’s Spore - UNDESTROYED!

My wonderful review of Spore (which Dave McGraw described as “accurate”, IIRC) I thought was lost and gone forever. This is CLEARLY a conspiracy from EA/Will Wright (the review was quite scathing :)).
But … thanks to Gavin “Just pulled from my google reader archive. Hope it helps.” Bowman, here it is:
Game Review, from a professional […]

Computer Games | 3 Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 12th September 2008

SimCities Societies - or - EA Still Writes Software That Locks Up My Computer

My wife recently bought me a copy of SimCities Societies, produced by Electronic Arts. At first glance, it looked like a long held wish had been granted and someone had finally come out with an updated version of SimCities that would bring back some of that old magic and take advantage of all the new […]

Computer Games | 4 Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 11th July 2008

Are You Looking For World Of Warcraft Gold In All The Wrong Places?

Hey there fellow World of Warcraft gamers! My name is Barry, and while I currently have several lvl 70 characters, I still consider myself a recreational player. Like me, are you sick and tired of being broke or having to spend most of your playing time trying to earn money to be able to “run […]

Computer Games | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 8th April 2008

Cracking EAs Spore DRM: Joining the dots

Is it just me, or is calling this about “piracy” missing the point here? (and, in case this isn’t obvious enough: yes, this is a deliberately very flippant post, but the points are serious )
EDIT: just for the record, I actually bought and played the game, quite a lot. Although don’t expect a professional […]

Computer Games | 2 Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 14th December 2007

Flashback to 2006: How Kongregate Started

A little over 2 years ago, a new startup went into private alpha. Here’s one (of many) announcements about it:
On 9/18/06, Jim Greer wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> I want to announce my soon-to-launch Flash game startup to this list - I’m
> looking for game developers and players. The site takes games uploaded by
> indie […]

Computer Games | 3 Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 11th September 2007