The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in blogging, gadgets, interactive fiction, movies on May 6th, 2008
Been a while since I last advertised new things that got dropped into the “read often”-pile:
Roger Ebert’s movie blog.
Planet IF - a very convenient aggregator for interactive fiction related blogs (and news sites).
Next Big Future - things that shape the next decades, if not centuries. Mainly technology-oriented.
Still haven’t got an […]
Posted in games, photography on May 6th, 2008
Action scenes from Halo.
Pretty.
And not just heavily photoshopped screengrabs - at least some of the images feature bona fide plastic models.
Posted in games on Apr 29th, 2008
Purchased GTA IV last night (shops started selling the game at midnight).
And finished the first mission before going to bed.
Based on a sleep-addled ten minutes - the game is pretty, the soundscape once again magnificently realized.
Should consume quite a few hours in the immediate future.
Posted in game of the week on Apr 27th, 2008
Been playing a couple of games of TypeRacer, and politely reminded that learning the 10-finger system is not a mandatory part of the finnish curriculum.
My rather unorthodox typing style does not lend itself well to scoring high in the game. Though let it be known that the incredibly low score in the […]
Posted in interactive fiction on Apr 22nd, 2008
By far the biggest news in recent times in the interactive fiction community is Andy Baio’s uncovering of the unpublished sequel to the 1984 game published by Infocom.
That’s right. A whole unpublished game. Or actually just a duo of prototypes with very limited functionality.
But it’s not really the game […]
Well, I alluded to my utter inexperience with World of Warcraft (and actually all Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games altogether) yesterday.
That’s not my only omission, another significant chunk of games that has gone almost entirely unplayed are Japanese role-playing games.
I tried out Final Fantasy VII back in the original playstation days, […]
The entire world, not just the WoW-addicts, breathes relieved.
[via slashdot. ]
Got Matt Barton’s definitive history on computer role-playing games the other day, and have been quite impressed by it on a couple of momentary glances. Apart from the screenshots that are darker and murkier than expected in a properly published book.
A proper review will follow, once I’ve progressed through the different ages […]
Posted in games, naked link on Apr 17th, 2008
Brontosaurs with Jetpacks. The best ideas do indeed come in a state of comprehensive inebriation.
Posted in books, comics, food, games, television, travel on Apr 16th, 2008
Kansainvälisen Seikkailijan Opas, the Madventures-guys’ travel book: Short on destination details, long on quality writing.
Tropicana Red Berries: No mango, interesting taste, deep purple colour.
Halo 3: Too many chapters with Flood, will go back for the vehicle scenes.
Blink, off the third season of Doctor Who: Probably the best televised science fiction in […]
Posted in games on Apr 10th, 2008
Fantasy Flight Games has posted the first release update since their acquisition of the roleplaying-related Warhammer IP from Games Workshop.
Both games have significant entries in the immediate future. Two Thrones is the first adventure for the fantasy game in ages. And the duo of Purge the Unclean and Inquisitor’s Handbook will […]
Posted in games on Apr 10th, 2008
Mattel’s entry to combat the 8-bilion-pound gorilla known as Scrabulous has not been well-received.
In addition to alleged bugs and other issues, the application is marred by the inability of americans to play. Due to distribution agreements, Mattel’s application cannot be played by US citizens, and that clearly cuts down the potential players […]
Posted in games on Apr 9th, 2008
The details of the eagerly-awaited European release of the Rock Band game have been published. That is, the Xbox 360 release alone, as the other consoles will follow “later in the summer”.
The date is as close to optimal as they get - the 23. of May being my birthday also.
But the price […]
The only 2000+ point word in Scrabble continues to pull in visitors.
Found out the definition for singhiozzerebbe at the very source, the discussion board for the Scrabulous-game in facebook.
What does it mean, then?
Simply: “She/He would hiccup”. Quite efficient, packing all that into a single word. And […]
Didn’t play much pinball at the semi-irregular gamenight on saturday. And the games that got played, were nothing to write home about. Certainly not that good training for the Sörkka Pinball Open looming on the horizon.
On the other hand, the video games-side of things was a wee bit more successful. […]
Posted in game of the week on Apr 3rd, 2008
Yeah, the name of the game is a blatant rip of the first song off Pearl Jam’s third album.
But that doesn’t diminish the appeal of Alejandro Guillen’s Spin the Black Circle.
Simple controls, addictive gameplay, effective physics model - what’s there not to like. Apart from the fact that once addiction […]
Posted in games on Mar 28th, 2008
Finished the first episode of Forumwarz, the massively single player online game of forum domination and pwnage.
Had plenty of fun, was impressed by the implementation, and will definitely be back for episode 2, as soon as it is released.
The troll was probably not the easiest character class to play (having to rely on […]
Posted in interactive fiction, movies, video on Mar 27th, 2008
Interactive fiction - that is: games that use pure text for input and output - seems not to be the topic of a snazzy movie.
But against all odds, GET LAMP, a documentary film on the very subject looks to be very interesting indeed. Jason Scott, the director, has previously put together a […]
Posted in games on Mar 26th, 2008
Come visit the growing municipality of Suur-Haaga, a small town with big opportunities!
[ via Pinseri. ]
Matt Barton started his history of computer roleplaying games in GameSetWatch, bartered it to Gamasutra to expand the readership, and has now expanded the subject into a 450 page book.
Dungeons & Desktops just went on top of my Amazon stack, and based on what I’ve seen on the web, will be good reading. […]