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By Thistle, on August 20th, 2010
Design games set out to help players to go beyond following the rules and gameplay presented by game designers. Most games can offer some level of design gaming in terms of making it easy to adjust or adapt the basic format of a game, e.g. minor changes to the rules when playing a [...]
By Thistle, on July 27th, 2010
If we’re to believe the hype, 2010 is a year packed with dramatic new gaming and media technologies. Much of this is attributed to the iPad, 3D TVs and new motion controllers. In reality, only a portion of the overall market will have access to these technologies in 2010.
Which is good, [...]
By Thistle, on July 9th, 2010
Step aside Bourne. Move over Bond. Make way for Spy Dog, the Sean Connery of canine espionage!
Spy Dog
Might be overdoing it a bit there, but Spy Dog and, yes, Spy Pups are just the kind of ‘confidence builders’ to spark an interest in spies and secret agents. We gave [...]
By Thistle, on July 1st, 2010
The blog’s birthday came round a couple of weeks ago, but we were too busy making content to pay much attention.
We’ve now reached our 100th post and we’re still too busy making content to pay much attention.
It does, however, seem worth pausing briefly to ask new visitors [...]
By Thistle, on June 14th, 2010
The annual hi-tech gaming festival of choice ‘kicks off’ this week with the usual showcasing of half-ready, half-baked and, occasionally, brilliant games and gaming technology.
Nintendo’s plans to show the 3D Nintendo 3DS and the ‘eve of conference’ appearance of video footage for a handful of 3D games on the PS3 can’t [...]
By Thistle, on May 31st, 2010
Spies, saboteurs and secret agents slot straight into most game formats and settings with ease. They do so by drawing play away from direct confrontation and by asking players to try out new challenges.
Whether taking the part of spies, or simply up against some spies, players of tabletop and videogame [...]
By Thistle, on May 20th, 2010
Self-styled ‘psychological action thriller’ Alan Wake has finally appeared on the XBox after several years in development hell. The mystery adventure format recently received a boost when Heavy Rain was released, but it needs more successes to continue the current shift towards more varied gameplay.
Fortunately, Alan Wake goes a long way [...]
By Thistle, on April 22nd, 2010
The BBC report on further evidence that Brain Training software is of very limited value is here. This may sound like bad news for encouraging the use of games in homes, schools and libraries. It is to some extent, because the headlines may be remembered and held up as evidence against any use [...]
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 [...]
By Thistle, on April 8th, 2010
It’s difficult to write with any certainty about The Prince of Persia movie, which is presumably going to be a ‘by the numbers’ adventure. It’s also hard to predict whether or not Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is going to eclipse Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii.
It does, however, seem [...]
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