games
"I wonder if it's called Epoch…"
Invest $800 get over $350 million back. How? Simply travel back from the year 2256 in your own time-machine, with full knowledge of the stock-market. Sounds …
Chrome Hounds as fusion cuisine
Dawdling on the subject of Player-VS.-Player forms for MMOs with a colleague last week, we took a look at some of the currently available forms. One of the …
Grand Theft Auto IV's reality bites
One of the things that could always be used in defence of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, was it was not taking anyone or anything seriously. The …
The Social MMO
Social networks have quickly become a web staple. To such an extent that with each new one you start asking yourself whether it has any use at all. While …
TCOS developer walkthrough
This is one of Gametrailer.com’s videos for The Chronicles of Spellborn. It’s a rather strange sensation to see something you have worked on for over a year …
PixelJunk Eden - controls from Hell?
For some reason PixelJunk Eden (PS3) is causing a whole set of different reactions than I expected. Personally I love the game, though I did reminisce a bit …
Much ado about accepted controls
This article was previously published in Dutch at games blog Bashers. What follows is the English translation and edited version of said article.
Kotaku writes about Spellborn
Seems Kotaku has an article detailing Mike Fahey’s experience with our ‘muhmorpuhger’ The Chronicles of Spellborn at the Leipzig Games Convention. Very nice …
Hard deaths in Mega Man 9
It has been ages since I have completed an 8-bit Mega Man title, so the release of Capcom’s Mega Man 9 has been nothing short of a blessing to me personally. …
Spellborn at Eurogamer MMO
Eurogamer MMO recently jumped into the Deadspell Storm and wrote a hands-on about our MMORPG The Chronicles of Spellborn. The game's dispensed with …
Playing dress-up with the 360
The Avatar editor for the Xbox 360 comes nowhere near the intricacies of the Mii Channel, but with some effort you can create a ‘North American’ version of …
"Runemages are not overpowered!"
And so the balance dance begins!
Spellborn ratings
Our little game The Chronicles of Spellborn seems to be approved by the press in general. The ratings hover between 7s and 8s, and I have yet to hear anyone …
Spellborn fan-made video
It seems a YouTube-member and TCOS-player by the name of lumay2u was pretty happy with the looks of The Chronicles of Spellborn and created a video to …
Bashers Podcast: Narrative In Games
Last week I was asked to join in on a podcast concerning narrative structures in games at my old writing home Bashers. I earned my seat on the podcast thanks …
When easy is not easy enough
“Should you be bombarded with one-hit-kills when you are playing a game on Easy?” That, in short, is the main question that got stuck in my head during the …
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 …
InFamous urban exploration
While everybody seems to be focused on the differences between Prototype and InFamous, I found myself curiously forgetting about the entire comparison as I was …
Trashy physics
Generally speaking, I don’t like physics in games. So in a way, I don’t like Trash Panic. This downloadable PlayStation Network puzzle game for PS3 has a great …
Metroid Prime's alien progression
Last week a friend of mine started playing Metroid Prime for the first time. While he enjoyed the game immensely, to me it was a bit of revelation to watch him …
WipEout AD-HD
I just downright love WipEout HD. Yet, it suffered some serious neglect after other games were released right after its launch last year. Small wonder then, …
Shadow Complex (X360)
“This is not the greatest Metroid in the world. This is just a tribute.”
The spirit of Batman: Arkham Asylum
It’s actually quite hard to pinpoint exactly what makes Batman: Arkham Asylum so good. That’s not to say that there’s nothing to point at, but rather that …
Metroid: Other M (Wii)
Just over 11 hours and another Metroid has been completed 100%. You could say that means I can now start waiting two to three years again to get my next fix, …