Frank Dolmans: VSTEP
Revolutionary, incredibly addictive, and manages to surprise and be fun even today.
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Author: J.A. Laraque
Faxanadu OST
In a nutshell the Evil One came to earth via meteorite (take that Superman). The Evil One transformed the Dwarves into monsters and had them attack the Elves who were all nice and peaceful living on the World Tree before this all went down. There is only one thing that can kill the Evil One and that is the Dwarven kings sword, too bad he swallowed it before he was transformed into a horrible and hard to kill monster.
Read MoreGames I have never beat: Faxanadu
Faxanadu came out in 1989 by publisher Hudson Soft, it is an RPG where you main goal is to defeat the Evil One. After being away from home for an untold amount of time you return to find your homeland pretty much abandoned. The Eleven King asks you to kill the Evil One because somehow that will lower unemployment and balance the budget.
Read MoreGames to Buy: December: Week 3
So, I have some good news and bad news. The good news is these classic games are awesome, the bad news is you will have to have a PSP to play them. Ah, the PSP, it’s like the ugly daughter of a billionaire. You don’t want to take her out, but if you do you get to drive the Mercedes.
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Christophor Rick: Gamers Daily News
Alternate Reality was really the first taste of how immersive a role-playing game could be. It had a mysterious and engrossing storyline (even if you never found out what it was, you WANTED to know), expansive environments and was rather difficult. I waited and waited for the expansions for years. Back then some critics hated it because they said there was no goal. But to survive and explore was more than goal enough for me.
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Motivation Monday: Bad video game movies
It’s like Saved by the Bell Double Dragon style, how can you go wrong? This movie suffers from the fate many video games and even comic book movies do and that is adding in too much to the story. The writers could have tailored a simple save the girl story and with good acting and choreography it could have done well, but they go all Golden Child or Mortal Kombat the series on us and ruin it.
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Chris Latour: BattleGoat Studios
I always admired the balance between the Geoscape and Battle Maps.
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Commercial Wars: Best use of Sexy
In this commercial the goal is to watch it once and see if you even remember what the hell the guy was talking about. I know I didn’t hear a word he said until the end. I was too busy looking at the sexy.
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Rolf KloeppelL: Neonga
The Civilization Series had a major impact on my whole gamer life and I do not regret a single hour I have spent building up empires and ruling the world virtually.
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Jonathan Cooperson: Legacy Interactive
“A game is a series of interesting choices.” –Sid Meier
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The Interview: Ben Gonyo: Gamers Film
Of the companies I spoke with and got to know, I would say these are passionate gamers wanting to create the best game possible. Yes there is a business to be run and I’m sure there are boards that care less about the game and more about the profit but overall developers are gamers. Very few people want to go to the trouble to create a game if they don’t care about gaming.
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Super Mario Land: OST
Super Mario Land was released for the Gameboy in 1989. This was the first Mario game on the Gameboy and featured Mario going up against a space alien named Tatanga of all people to save Princess Daisy since Peach was off playing Tennis.
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Haruneko: Haruneko Entertainment
Eternal Darkness because this masterpiece is not known well enough: this game is just sheer perfection, the game system, the story, the characters, everything is crafted really well. This is an horror game like no others, sucks you in like a good book and entertains you like the best arcade you can think of. Eternal Darkness achieves to tell you a really complex and shocking story without being tedious or rely on hundreds of lines of text.
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FALLEN EARTH: HOLIDAY APOCALYPSE CHALLENGE
The Early Bird Prize winner and five additional prize pack winners will be randomly selected from a list of all players who have entered and logged in between December 9-19. The Grand Prize winner and the remaining five prize pack winners will be randomly selected from a list of all players who have entered and logged in between December 9 and January 7.
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The Interview: Peter Brauer: Second Skin
I started playing 13-15 hours a day, and didn’t do much else for a month or two. I had to seriously check my playing to start making the film. I don’t regret the time I spent playing, because I reconnected with a childhood friend who had moved to California. I just had to find the right balance between gaming and working. MMOs can affect player lives differently depending on how they play. We tried hard to show people who played positively.
Read MoreOfficial Viva Amiga Teaser Trailer: Version 1
The first official teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary.
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Nacho Pintos: Frugal Games
I can’t help it, it’s so perfect, so seminal. All ‘collect-everything’ games started here. The setting is absurd: colored ghosts, yellow dots, a pizza-like avatar… That’s what I miss most in current games, and what keeps me going back to classics: no ‘realism’, just a different, weird gameworld, with different rules, set up with very scarce resources, and yet it works and is addictive, balanced, brilliant. Unique.
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