Design Games

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 [...]

Netbooks, ION 2 and Optimus

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, [...]

Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Agents

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 [...]

RTS Showdown: Starcraft 2 v's The Rest

Blizzard’s long-awaited Real-Time Strategy (RTS) videogame Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is due for release on 27th July 2010. In keeping with the RTS formula the PC-based Starcraft 2 is all about gathering resources, making munitions and wiping out your enemies.

The first true RTS title, Dune, was a blend of storytelling, [...]

Top 10 Ways To Save Money On Videogames: Update 2

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 [...]

Prince of Persia

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 [...]

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakenings

The recently released Dragon Age: Origins – Awakenings pack for the enjoyable, if slightly predictable, Dragon Age: Origins franchise is surprisingly good value if you’re a PC owner. The original game impressed on many levels and the first major add-on brings another 25 or so hours of equally intense gameplay.

Our Darkspawn [...]

Free Image Editors

Any kind of games design, blogging or web design relies on working quickly and easily with a range of graphics software. Professional software like Photoshop and Illustrator are expensive and often contain features which go beyond those needed for most jobs. We use a variety of free software which is either very easy [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

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Top 10 Ways To Save Money on Games: Update 1

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 [...]