Archive for the 'Video Games' Category

Monday, April 21st, 2008

This may be old to some, but for others this will be the greatest thing you have ever seen.
Video games are not known for their stories, that’s because most of the time they are an after thought. Like a waiter offering pepper on your already delicious pasta dish (fettucini carbonara).
Take Metal Wolf Chaos. In this [...]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

This is a game idea I came up with the other day after visiting neopets.com

The idea takes elements from pokemon, neopets.com, spore, the sims and the somewhat obscure Phantom Crash. I know this is a ‘hardcore’ gamerz nightmare, so feel free to close the window.
When I was younger I had a neopets account and enjoyed [...]

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

OK… Soul Control (I have to listen to The Streets to write this)

SOUL CONTROL

Designed and created by young people for young people showing the dangers of knife crime and gang culture
(perhaps they should have used some old people who have made games)
This is a great thing, using video games as a medium for something serious, [...]

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Let’s talk Natural Motion.

You guys may have noticed this soon to be trend that’s coming to games, which is physics based animation systems. Simply, game characters and NPCs responding dynamically to their environment by actual physics calculated balance and responses from forces.
Think of it as intelligent ragdolls.
And let me tell you that this is AWESOME! [...]

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I edited together the left over footage into a little follow up. It’s short and sweet.
(I’m also uploading a version to gametrailers.com so I’ll update later)

Oh and check out this charming art that Josué from Nerf Now!!! Sent me!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Oh boy! Here we GOOOOOO!
The first of hopefully many Lava Level videos!!!
This is called GF TF2
Basically I recorded my girlfriend (who I would not call a gamer) playing Team Fortress 2 for the first time.
It’s quiet an interesting experiment, to see how her skills improve as she gets over the initial learning curve and how [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

So here we are again. SO I resumed my CoD 4 playing and amazingly some of my complaints in my first 3 hours in were resolved. The story actually became interesting! There is a point at about 4 hours in where it really changes the direction I thought the game was going. I won’t tell [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I had been meaning to play Call of Duty 4 for some time now. It’s gotten such universal praise I had to check it out.
I was a big fan of CoD 2 and we have the common decency not to mention CoD 3.

I haven’t finished it yet, I’m probably 50% of the way through and [...]

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

So I installed the EVE online steam trial last night
(Please note this is just my initial experience after playing for about an HOUR)

www.eve-online.com
For those who don’t know, EVE online is a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game) set in space with the players controlling and upgrading space ships. It is one of the highest rated [...]

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

$60 (us) for a game?! ABSURD ISN’T IT?! Americans remember the good old days when a game was $50 and even then that was a very expensive purchase.
I live in Australia and I pay $120 for games. Oh but the us dollar is SO much more!
1.00 AUD = [...]