December 2010
10 posts
Steam Christmas sales
It just occurred to me that the games I’m after this time around are all sequels to games I bought last year: Splinter Cell: Conviction, GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City and Mass Effect 21.
If this year is any indication, those three would more than enough for the whole year. My fall game queue did fall quite flat. Mass Effect was the only game on that list that I did finish.
The only...
Humble Indie Bundle
The Humble Indie Bundle is one of my favorite things. It’s a pay-what-you-want scheme for a great bunch of indie games. This time around the games are the highly-acclaimed Braid1, Machinarium, Osmos, Revenge of the Titans and Cortex Command.
Best of all, the games are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. And without any pesky DRM. And you’ll be contributing to some worthy...
One Chance
Sure, One Chance was a nice little game but it probably doesn’t deserve all the attention it is getting. It is frightfully simple game with decisions. It is the how the players react, that I think is much more interesting. This of course wouldn’t be possible unless the game was well designed to evoke these reactions. My argument is that the game is genius because it messes up with our...
Valve's Steam and Mac gaming
I was attending a LAN gaming session (aka. real “social gaming”) with a group of friends a while ago. Last time, we spent a lot of time installing (and updating) games and trying to get computers to find each other and I had to borrow someone else’s computer. This time, we were quickly up and running and I could proudly play on my MacBook Pro.
Sure, I had installed Windows 7...
Do these people know what games even are?
For reasons unknown to me, Silicon Alley Insider decided to publish a marketing piece by CEO of a Facebook clone titled Facebook Has It All Wrong When It Comes To Social Games. That post was for a while the top one at TechMeme. The stupid - it hurts.
In essence, the CEO of MyLifebook says that Facebook is a bad place to find other people to play games, unlike his site. It’s really easy to...
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GTA IV
Grand Theft Auto IV™. You will never play through this game. Forget about the expansions.
That’s what went through my head when I got GTA IV from Steam’s Christmas sales last year. But how could I not buy the game, when I had bought, played and enjoyed all1 the previous games. The game went unplayed for a long time not because I didn’t have time for it but because the game did...
Kingdom of Loathing
I quit Kingdom of Loathing recently. I guess I was a bit hooked to the game, as I did play it almost daily. Sure, I did earlier say that I didn’t play RPGs, but I guess KoL was something else to me.
In short, KoL is a browser-based turn-based RPG and is riddled with puns and parodies. The above image pretty accurately describes the art style of the game. It’s stick figures and...
Team Fortress 2
In my continuing series of Valve games I’d need friends for, Team Fortress 2 is a pleasant surprise. While it’s probably great at a LAN or with friends, you can just as well play it on the net with strangers.
Originally I tried the game first when Steam was launched for Mac and Valve threw a free weekend of TF2. For that, I earned my free in-game iPod earbuds. Then, after months...
