Top 10 Ways To Save Money On Videogames: Update 2

By Thistle, on April 11th, 2010

Just come upon some good deals on videogames while preparing a post about games and activities for World Cup 2010. The World Cup post will follow shortly but some of the offers at Amazon US and Amazon UK might be time limited, so we’ll go with that first.

As with our last [...]

April 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: RPGs, Software, Videogames | Leave a comment

Top 10 Ways To Save Money on Games: Update 1

By Thistle, on February 18th, 2010

Amazon UK has posted some excellent ‘Half-Term Deals’. The offers include a few of the best videogames we’ve looked at in recent months. If you live in the UK, or nearby, Sims 3, Darksiders and Dragon Age: Origins are among the most heavily discounted titles.

We also noticed the first signs of [...]

February 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: RPGs, Software, Videogames | Leave a comment

Videogames: 2010 Page Posted

By Thistle, on February 7th, 2010

Just added a feature length post on this year’s videogame releases here. We don’t doubt that you’ve read a few of these in the last couple of months. However, our suggestions are more to do with finding novelty and good gameplay than simply reporting on the titles with the highest budgets.

The [...]

February 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Games Design, RPGs, Software, Videogames | Leave a comment

Assassin's Creed 2: Which Limited Edition?

By Thistle, on November 22nd, 2009

Add-ons and fillers don’t usually catch our attention. Until we heard about a certain confusion over different versions of Assassin’s Creed 2. The differences between the PS3, the XBox and the delayed PC versions are obvious when ordering. We went online to check on the differences between the different limited editions.

Those [...]

November 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: 16+, RPGs, Software, Videogames, Winter Games | Leave a comment

Assassin's Creed 2 v's The Rest

By Thistle, on November 20th, 2009

As Christmas approaches the traditional wave of blood-drenched first-person ‘shooters’ and ‘slashers’ is cleaning up at the stores. This year’s crop includes Borderlands, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wolfenstein, Left 4 Dead 2 and Uncharted 2.

Most of these games are largely glorified Space Invaders dressed up for the 21st century.  [...]

November 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: 16+, Parkour, RPGs, Software, Videogames | Leave a comment

Future Learning: Part 4

By Thistle, on September 24th, 2009

The fourth and final part of our series on gaming and future learning covers a few skills that show exactly why games have a lot to offer in schools and homes:

Teachers and lecturers who don’t adapt to the alternative ‘curriculum’ presented through games and active learning will become increasingly disconnected from [...]

September 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Boardgames, Learning, Libraries, Pen and Paper RPG, Play, RPGs, Tabletop RPGs, Videogames | Comments are closed