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Archive for July, 2009

Playing Pandemic

What you really need to know: Pandemic is one of the most fun board games I’ve played in quite some time. With that out of the way, let me explain. Players are part of team of experts frantically trying to stop four viruses from causing a devastating pandemic (how topical). Reading between the lines, that means [...]

Trashy Physics

Generally speaking, I don’t like physics in games. So in a way, I don’t likeTrash Panic. This downloadable PlayStation Network puzzle game for PS3 has a great concept: efficiently arrange random pieces of trash in a trash bin by destroying stuff. The most used technique to do this, will be to break your pieces of trash [...]

InFamous Urban Exploration

While everybody seems to be focused on the differences betweenPrototype and inFamous, I found myself curiously forgetting about the entire comparison as I was playing the latter. It’s not that inFamous is perfect, but for me it comes awfully close. Why? Because it is truly an ‘open’ world. This sounds a bit weird of course. Ever since Shenmue started [...]

Spellborn Enters The Deadspell Storm

If you didn’t catch the news elsewhere already: Spellborn Works went bankrupt. In short this means all of us who worked on the game are now without a job. But what does this mean for The Chronicles of Spellborn itself? At the moment, it has little impact for the players. The game itself is owned by Spellborn [...]