26 Mar

Casual Thursday: GlueFO 2.0

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by gSathe

Okay. It needs to be said.
And really quickly.
GlueFO 2.0 is awesome! It’s one of the coolest takes on Asteroids in a really long time. Other games, like Echoes, for example, or Geometry Wars, refined the original concept. Dodge was an excellent example of how the original game could be turned on its head – [...]

15 Jun

Jaffe to the rescue… Or not

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by Nike Okami
It has happened several times. Developer makes a telling comment, departing from the earnest etiquette of public relations. Someone retaliates. Developer subsequently apologises with proverbial hat in hand. Case in point: Laurent Fischer, marketing director for Nintendo of Europe, being reprimanded by none other than famed God of War creator and designer David [...]

21 Apr

Casually gaming

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by gSathe
Casual games.
Yup. I said it. Casual games. Like the soft porn of the games industry, bite sized pieces of entertainment made with tiny budgets to do nothing but titillate you and reel you in, click click and click, while the actual porn gets downloaded in the background. Or the office spreadsheet waits for your [...]

9 Apr

Casually gaming

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Casual games. Yup. I said it — casual games. Like the soft porn of the games industry, bite sized pieces of entertainment made with tiny budgets to do nothing but titillate you and reel you in, click click and click, while the actual porn gets downloaded in the background. Or the office spreadsheet waits for [...]