Author: Helvetica

The Experiment: First Impressions

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

Here we come with the next title from Dreamcatcher Interactive and Lexis Numerique. We do like these guys, they put out some of our favorite adventure games, and we do adore them for it.

The Experiment is no Johnny-come-lately when it comes down to the nuts and bolts of the presentation of adventure; instead it offers up a totally different take on the atmosphere of point-and-click by presenting instead a strange surveillance guided storyline. We walk into the middle of a devastated laboratory aboard a US Navy sea vessel, overrun by foliage, and are thrust immediately into the strange life of one scientist.

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Spore’s Big Mistake: EA’s Brush with DRM

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

With almost 3,000 reviews, the nearly 2,500 negative 1-star reviews have crushed the rating of this game to the floor, causing it to plummet from whatever it might have rested had EA not created this blunder by providing security what many users are touting as, “Draconian.”

DRM, Digital Rights Management, is the currently battleground between consumers and producers in the software sphere (and other places) but in few places is it as heartfelt as in the vein of video gaming.

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On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1

Posted by | Sep 16, 2008 | |

Action. Adventure. Witty dialogue. Low brow humor! Penny Arcade’s offering to the gaming world has it all…and then some. This game stole our breath when we first heard it was coming out and then stole our hearts (and sat on them) when we finally played it. Precipice of Darkness has been one of the most enjoyable episodic gaming experiences that we have had in a long, long time.

“Four Gods wait on the windowsill, where once eight Gods did war and will. And if the Gods themselves may die, what does that say for you and I?”

You may like it too.

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Anti Spore: Obvious Troll is Obvious

Posted by | Sep 10, 2008 | |

With the advent release of Spore by EA Games so have also arrived are the townsfolk with torches and pitch forks. We’ve already had the bizarre event of “militant atheists” coming out against the game, but now we also have the other side of the spectrum throwing a gauntlet into the fight.

Except that after we voces arrived on the scene we fairly believe we are righteous in saying,

Ladies and Gentlemen: Anti Spore is a troll.

Update (2008-09-11): Anti Spore revealed to defenitely be a troll when they Rickrolled their readers this morning at 8am. Once again—Anti Spore, our hats off.

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Waiting for Stargate Worlds

Posted by | Sep 9, 2008 | |

We have been longtime fans of the TV shows SG-1 and Atlantis that when it was announced—some time ago—that there would be a Stargate MMO (Stargate Worlds) we were rather excited. That excitement, of course, has begun to wane as the eventual release date continues to become more eventual.

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