Ludotronic Linkage
Very much in the interactive fiction vein, with a healthy dose of classic and ultra-violent videogames thrown in for good measure.
- Telltale Games, who have singlehandedly birthed the episodical adventure game with Bone and Sam & Max recently received a nicely round six million dollars in venture capital.
- Yet another variant of the Z-Machine, Ziggy uses forums for input and output, and the effect is quite an odd multi-player experience.
- Rockstar continues its defiant progress: Manhunt 2. The release of the game has now been suspended following bans in both United Kingdom and United States.
- The H.P. Lovecraft 70-year anniversary games are out. My own effort got sidelined almost in square one.
- Mr. Grownup Gamer is blogging his way through the entire Zelda-series.
- Top 10 massively multiplayer games/worlds holds quite a few surprises: WoW at #1 is not one of them, but the 15:1 advantage enjoyed by Habbo Hotel over Second Life definitely is.
- A games writer for Guardian bravely tries to organize the writing of a multi-author text adventure on a blog.
- There’s a wiki for everything, and multiples thereof on hype-y subjects. Interactive fiction certainly doesn’t carry hype, but the jointly authored site on the subject provides lots of information.
- IGN’s games of the summer feature has very optimistic (but also vague) release date for Bioware’s inbound science fiction extravaganza Mass Effect.
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