Sunday, November 16, 2008
Anyone who loves old PC games knows what a pain in the ass it is to play them online. Or even at LAN parties. But my friend Scott Kevill in Australia has a solution. He’s ported the GameRanger player matching service to PC, and it is fabulous. It supports 500 games, including Baldur’s Gate and [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Mythic follow-up to Dark Age of Camelot launched today. Warhammer, Age of Reckoning is a hoot. I’ve been playing for a few weeks now, and I have to say that I’m plesently surprised. The game is a lot of fun, for an MMO. The emphasis is on team work, and large battles between opposite [...]
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Also tagged games, gaming, mmo, mmorpg, online, videogame, videogames, warhammer
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
If ever there were a site deserving of my favorite approbatory “Radical Ninja,” it were insertcredit.com. Today, Brandon broke a Brazilian story about a new stand-alone console for that country. Long live the Mega-Drive 3! Even if it’s just being pressed onto a board with no cartridge slot. Course, it’s not Sega really doing the [...]
Hit my favorite flea market this past Sunday at Laney college in Oakland. While I didn’t score anything amazing, I did get a legal box full of carts for $30. The guy wanted $50, but I walked away, and by the time I was 2 booths down, he was shouting “$30!” All of the above [...]
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Also tagged 2600, 5200, 7800, atari, flea market, games, genesis, laney, Oakland, sega, video game, video games, videogame, videogames
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Garry’s Mod is an addition to the game Half-Life 2, and it allows you to, essentially, play with everything in the game. That includes the people, places, things and even the physics. A buncha folks make movies with it, and I think the best of the bunch comes from the Idiots of Garry’s Mod. Above [...]
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Also tagged comedy, funny, games, garry, half life 2, humor, machinima, source, video, videogame, videogames
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This company, Tilestack, is bringing Hypercard to the Web. In theory, it should work like: Upload stack, view stack. Simple, right? This got me thinking. For years, we’ve been chasing emulation as a means to bringing old software back to life. Unfortunately, building a new emulator for every system, and for every OS to run [...]
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Also tagged apple, browser, emulation, games, hypercard, mac, macintosh, psychotic, videogame, videogames, web
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We published my chat with Sony Online. The print version’s out now, but the online version went up last month, I now find. Had no idea!
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Also tagged games, management, online, sony, systems, videogame, videogames, work
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I’m just back from EA’s Spring Break event, at the Supper Club in SF. The first thing I thought when I got home was to write up a quick synopsis of what the world’s largest game company did wrong at this massive press event. Bringing ya’ll up to speed: E3, the consumer oriented game conference, [...]
For all you arcade nerds and pinball wizards, California Extreme 2008 is scheduled for July 19-20 at the San Jose Convention Center. For those who’ve never been, you pay around $40 for admission to a massive room where all the local arcade collectors have dumped their machines There’s also an auction that usually takes place, [...]
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