Post Thumbnail of Lego Universe MMOG
14 January 2010 Featured, Games

Lego has always been the coolest toy for me as it’s a large as your imagination.
Over the past few years we have been blessed with Lego renditions of popular movies like Star Wars, Batman and Indiana Jones.  This year will also bring a Lego Harry Potter game in or around …

Post Thumbnail of Cluster Lander (Flash game)
29 December 2009 Featured, Games

A friend pointed me to a really cool web based game called Cluster Lander.
It has many similarities to the Atari vector-based arcade game Gravitar from way back in ’82.

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3 July 2009 Games

Ok… I’m all for taking cool concepts and making movies out of them – but Asteroids!?  It has NO plot and no characters.  You zip around and shoot rocks.  A saucer comes out randomly and takes a pot shot at you.  That’s it!
And yet, four major Hollywood studios were in …

Post Thumbnail of Sega Columns Free for iPhone this weekend!
3 July 2009 Games, Technology

Instead of $1.99, Sega has decided to gift everyone who notices with a free copy of Sega Columns Deluxe.  Grab it for your iPod touch or iPhone before Sunday night! [itunes link]

Post Thumbnail of Vanguard Princess - Free PC Game
3 July 2009 Games

It seems an ex-Capcom developer Tomoaki Sugeno (Japanese site) made a free 2D fighting game called Vanguard Princess.  It’s VERY cute!  You can go here to see a video and find the link to download… [Thanks to the great people at Kotaku]

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18 June 2009 Games

It’s been a long time coming, and there still isn’t any concrete release date for Diablo 3, the newest in the vaunted 3D action role-playing genre.  I had a lot of fun playing the earlier ones, and killed a couple mice doing it.
Many were vexxed that Blizzard didn’t display anything …

Post Thumbnail of Open Emu and Open Emu QC
2 April 2009 OSX, Programming, Visualization

Found an interesting open source emulation project called Open Emu for the Macintosh.  modular in design, it currently has support for NES/Famicon, Gameboy/Gameboy Colour, Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG – 1000 and Gameboy Advance.  You of course have to track down the romsets yourself.  Even more interesting, there is …

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23 October 2008 Games

A good game is a simple game with solid play mechanics, sounds that make sense without overpowering your focus, and controls that don’t confuse.  I suppose this is why I tend to play more ‘old school’ style games.
Direct your eyes and twitchy fingers to Bubble Tanks 2, a free flash-based …

Post Thumbnail of 30 years of Space Invaders!
30 June 2008 Animation, Games, Music

Ahh! Space Invaders…  Crank up the way-back machine to 1978 and hop in your laser cannon  to protect Earth from the evil drones!
Recently, they released a very nice version for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP called Space Invaders Extreme.  It’s a great update but has not strayed too far …

Post Thumbnail of Diablo III first announcement :) & StarCraft 2 next year :(
29 June 2008 Games

Back in 1997, Blizzard Entertainment released a really cool dark action-role playing game named Diablo on the PC.  You moved around a small village and the evil dungeons beneath it – hacking and slashing away at the denizens of evil, including Diablo himself.  It was a simple game and very …