Category Archives: Games

Another board game conversion for XBLA

I thought it was interesting that the mention of “Wits & Wagers” in a recent Microsoft Xbox announcement did not mention that it was a video game version of a fairly well lauded board game. Mostly I’m just looking forward to having another game to use my Big Button controllers with. Tags: board, game, version, [...]

Eggs out of season

One of the things that I’m enjoying most about Chain Factor, besides the incredibly addictive game, is the code hints/easter eggs that you get sometimes that show up as an “error message”. Like this one: ERROR 003 LEVEL 3 / CODE NNN * UPPER BOUND FOR BASIC SCORES? * ok i’ve got to stop playtesting [...]

I’m not qualified

I really want some one to do a feminist deconstruction of the the game: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble. No really. I honestly have no idea what to think about it. None at all. Tags: game

Scissors Suck! Rocks Rule!

Some people have too much time on their hands. Maybe I should start a competitive coin flipping league. A cursory Google search doesn’t appear to show any. No tag for this post.

Onward into Middle Earth!

I picked up my copy of The Lord of the Rings Online today and I am just getting everything updated so I can pick up where I left off with the beta for the past couple of weeks. If you end up taking a look, look up Blairn on Vilya and say hello. No tag [...]

First Person Singer

While a bit unfortunate that it is not longer, Opera Slinger turns out to be unreasonably fun for such an odd premise: Using the classic WASD first person control scheme, get your character into the spotlight before the competition and then sing your heart out. It’s only one level, and just four songs with some [...]

Brass Mario, a funky Mario

The Super Mario Theme performed by three trombonists! No tag for this post.

Start cursing me now

From the maker of the Grow series, some of my favorite puzzle games ever, comes Dwarf Complete! I may or may not have stayed up all night trying to complete it, and I only needed hints from the web twice! Woot! Tags: game

Let’s make a deal

I had an excellent evening playing games with Shaun and Scott where we played “I’m the Boss” by Face 2 Face Games for the first time. We only had time to play through it once but it was incredibly fun. It seems to be an extremely well balanced game at this point, though it’s hard [...]

Left Behind

So in a pretty quick turn of events, my main character in World of Warcraft has been stranded on one server while my guild left for another one. Somewhat surprisingly, I’m only a little irritated with the guild. I had only recently come back after a very long hiatus and most of the current members [...]