Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Review: Clench The Difference [Review]
Getting the most out of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen requires a steady hand, a keen eye, and the ass muscles of an Olympic athlete. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an action adventure game based on the movie of the same name, telling the story of the return of Megatron and the rise of...
How To Name A Video Game Studio — And Hopefully Get It Right [Feature]
The decision to give something a name, whether that be your struggling rock band, your first dog, your only child, or your game development studio is no simple task. For better or worse, you might be stuck with it. Names carry weight. They give a group of people and the products they create an identity....
First Dante’s Inferno Gameplay Footage [Clips]
Posted by admin in All Gaming on 07 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
So Dante’s Inferno is “EA does God of War”. Doesn’t bother us. Dead Space was “EA does Resident Evil”, and it was great . These are the same guys, we expect the same results.
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First Dante’s Inferno Gameplay Footage [Clips]
Namco Bandai Locks Down Dragon Ball License For America [Dragon Ball Z]
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- 3.old: Weapon DamageBlimey, it looks like I covered both the culture of pluses and the universal mechanic in the previous post, so it’s time to get onto something more controversial. 3.old aims to get players into their imaginations and out of their character sheets. There are two main things that distract players from the game: character optimization obsession [...]
- 3.old: Getting rid of the unified mechanicAs I stated in my previous post, one of the main design goals of 3.old was to get rid of the unified mechanic, the d20+modifiers vs. DC mechanic that insidiously diminished the playability of 3.x. Let me review why I believe that the unified mechanic is a fundamental flaw in 3.x design: 1. It provides only [...]
- 3.old and the games within the gamesDelta has a great post about Games Within Games in which he talks about the advantages of using subsystems instead of a universal mechanic in roleplaying games. I have a lot of thoughts about this subject, I’m not sure how many will come out in this post. This post is mostly about one of the [...]