Now this is just weird: Palladium will be sharing their Gen Con booth with Nokia – yes, the Finnish cell phone empire and makers of the thus-far lackluster game deck N-Gage. The form-factor problems with the N-Gage have been at least partially solved, but the bigger problem was a games
Category: Computer and Console Games
My God… it’s full of… well, you know
I don’t think I ever mentioned that the Star Chamber folks had a booth at Origins, pimping the first expansion (at least I’m pretty sure the other title they toss around – which is “Origins,” confusingly enough – refers to their starting card set) to their CCG/4X masterpiece. The new
Warhammer Online pulls the plug
Games Workshop might have read the latest post on Greg Costikyan’s site, or maybe reality finally set in. Either way, as ICv2 reports, the Warhammer MMORPG has been called off. The website has the following announcement:
Game that is still not <i>Pokemon</i> resembles it slightly more
Those of you with s already know that it’s the only device resembling a contemporary “game console” that the busy, thinking adult needs to own. Thanks to its portability and plentiful array of high-caliber turn-based games, it’s one of the best things a gamer can do with time that’s otherwise
Quick! Disassemble the duck!
We have noted before the tendency of LEGO to put really astoundingly good time-sucking games on their website. This one is the best balance between a turn-based puzzle game and “real time” strategy I have ever experienced. Give it some time, you’ll be surprised how deep it can be. In
Dragon, Dungeon magazines get relaunches, ugly logotypes
Paizo Publishing has announced that, while Dungeon will be focused solely on D&D moving forward, Dragon will be widening its focus to all the media in which D&D appears: the minis game, computers, et cetera. Dragon will also include a WotC catalog every quarter. The relaunch officially happens in, of
News flash: computers are bad GMs
Enjoy this excessively vitriolic, unclear and unsound article alleging that paper roleplaying rules systems are a poor foundation for computer RPGs. He might be right, but he reasons like a rabid Shar Pei with one leg staked to the ground. The thought of even beginning to take this essay apart
Now I can be a warlock anywhere
Got a PalmOS handheld? Got a gamebook fetish? Go wild.
I always suspected scholars were making it all up anyway
Introducing Lexicon: an RPG for n players, 26 letters, and a Wiki. (Two example games are online, one run by the Paranoia XP developers and one based on the NOBILIS game world. This looks like a great way to generate source material for more formalized RPGs.)
FFG licenses Doom for board game
Yes, folks: they took on Warcraft, and now it’s Doom time. This title will feature graphics from the upcoming Doom III, as well as sculpted plastic stuff and what appears to be a modular board similar to the Warcraft board. Presumably FFG is wise enough not to make this play
Microsoft licenses Catan for MSN Zone, Messenger
Today’s other big news is that Microsoft has picked up the license to every Catan game there is, I think (naturally including The Settlers of Catan, far and away the most successful German game in the US), for inclusion in their online gaming stable. Because it’ll be part of the
This is not even mostly a nostalgia moment
It’s a little annoying how people seem to want to remake old computer games over and over instead of pushing gameplay forward, but there are a few classic games that, if remade to find a new audience, would push gameplay forward. Archon: Evolution is a 2D DirectX facelift of the
You got your chocolate in my game mechanics!
Ever felt the need to combine Strange Adventures in Infinite Space with Magic: the Gathering? If you have, you should probably hold back, because it turns out someone already has. This is the nicest original-to-computers online CCG I’ve seen yet. (Via Penny Arcade, of course.)
*snrt* I’m awake!
Right, so, Allan’s been at the other Gen Con and now he’s at the other thing in Anaheim and we haven’t been posting really. Apparently the only news from the show is that a bunch of retailers and publishers are kinda pissed off. That, and some computer game stuff: Blizzard
Now everyone can enjoy what Mike has been obsessing over
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is formally out of beta today, so if you’re curious to check out the first major, professional massively multiplayer online RPG that doesn’t hew so close to the traditions thereof, check it out. No Tolkien anywhere to be found up in here, and no lame hack-and-slash gameplay