by Benjamin Fitzgerald Back in September, Gog.com partnered with Crunching Koalas to bring Indie Piñata into the world. It’s a pretty cool idea, really. How it works is that you are able to buy a game at random for $3.00. I’m not much of a gambler myself, but in this instance I thought it […]
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Journey to the Frozen Tundra of Icewind Dale
by Benjamin Fitzgerald An elven sorceress, a half-orc priest, a roguish dwarf, a half-elf bard and two warrior women walk into a bar. It’s not a joke – it’s the opening of Icewind Dale! BioWare developed the Infinity Engine between 1997 and 1998, and it was employed for the first time in Baldur’s Gate. […]
Trial by Viking: A Kickstarter Backer’s First Impression
by Benjamin Fitzgerald A few months ago, I decided to support a project on Kickstarter, a video game called Trial by Viking. The game is nearing completion and as a thank you, Last Life Games sent a download link for the demo to all their backers who helped to make the game a reality. […]
Classic Remake of an Historic Star Trek Game
by Benjamin Fitzgerald You are the captain of the Heavy Battle Cruiser U.S.S. Lexington. Your success – or your failure – may forever determine the fate of the Union. Godspeed. Okay, so EGA Trek is not *really* a Star Trek game. But it basically is. It is a reworking of Super Star Trek, one […]
Space – The Final Frontier
by Benjamin Fitzgerald Next year represents a huge milestone for Star Trek fans, as September 8th, 2016 will mark the 50th anniversary of Star Trek’s original television debut. Star Trek has always had a relatively small fanbase, but it has been significant enough to warrant 29 seasons of five separate television shows, comprising a whopping […]
TellTale’s Game of Thrones Fails to Impress
by Ben Fitzgerald Note: Terry Randolph and Jake Rushing wrote a review of this game back in January, and their impressions were quite different from mine. I agree with many of the points they mentioned and I respect their opinions, but I did not come away with the same impression of the game as […]
Kickstarter: The Future of Video Games?
by Benjamin Fitzgerald Kickstarter has slowly begun to demand my attention. It started off small: a game here and a game there; an offhand comment in a casual conversation; a brief visit to the website half a year ago. Lately, however, I’ve been paying the highly successful crowd-funding company serious consideration. After reading Marshall Garvey’s […]
A Fun Adventure in a Nonsense World
by Benjamin Fitzgerald What do you get when you combine an overweight exterminator, a singing purple bear and a world full of monstrous insects? Why, you get The Ballads of Remus – When the Bed Bites! Enter a zany, bizarre world full of over-sized parasites, ketchup plants and thirsty peasants in this charming adventure. […]
The Potential of a VR World
Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in ’t! – William Shakespeare, The Tempest Growing up in the 90s, I remember hearing talk of creating virtual reality. The hurdles inherent in such an undertaking proved too difficult for the technology of […]