One of the things I like about looking at older video games is that it gives an opportunity to see the early experiments of the medium. Rogue Entertainment’s Strife is both one of the last games to use the Doom engine and one of the first FPS games to use RPG conventions like improving skills, an involved,
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This week Tim considers what it is that interests him so much about the Kickstarter-funded game “Dog Eat Dog.” Also, “Dog Eat Dog” is probably a terrible thing to put into a search engine.
Inherit the Earth: A flawed adventure game with a lot of great story moves and a setting with plenty of mystery.
This week, I revisit a side game from the venerable Ultima series.
It’s time to listen to us ramble on again with k8monstrs closet of feminism/geekery! This time we took up the subject of Dragon Age II, talking about everything we enjoyed about the game (which was apparently what everyone else hated) as well as the parts we thought were lacking (which were also things everyone hated). We’re
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There’s a really good article at Polygon, and I think you should read it.
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A short little link here that I find pretty cool. The Twitter account @NEWS_XX14 tweets headlines from newspapers published on the same day in 1914.
This week Tim gets distracted by a long form post published under three hours before this one, and decides to utterly change his topic. He hopes it won’t show in the improvised writing style, but it does. A lot.
LINK: “Will Gaming Save Education, or Just a Waste of Time?” by Dian Schaffhauser (August, 2013) In keeping with the tradition of piggy-backing off of themes set by Seth, this week’s linkbait offers up an article written by Dian Schaffhauser for T.H.E. Journal, a magazine covering educational technology for the last 40 years. Setting aside the
Come with me to the old days of educational video games.
