50% off Ultima and Wing Commander Series -
For $27 you can get ten Ultima and five Wing Commander games though Monday, June 4 at 11:59 PM EDT. Purportedly runs on Windows XP/Vista/Win 7.
I am so tempted.
CNN: Man Turning Airplane into Dream Home
Blizzard offices raided over Diablo 3 refund policy after Error 37 strikes Korean gamers -
I did not see this coming.
German Forza Motorsports fan site ForzaLife has screenshots of the forthcoming Forza Horizon (Xbox 360; Fall 2012). I’m not a big fan of racing games, but these screenshots look so amazing I might be willing to crash into countless walls just to see the sights.
The 20-Year Estrangement of the Two Guys from Andromeda -
Leigh Alexander interviews Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, better known as Two Guys from Andromeda, the creative team that brought the Sierra Space Quest adventures to life. The Two Guys have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new “SpaceVenture”—the Space Quest intellectual property is owned by Activision these days and Activision isn’t ready to do anything with it yet.
Great comparison by Michael Abbott, a.k.a. The Brainy Gamer, of the modern shooter genre to television Westerns of the 40s–60s. Abbott asserts that while Rockstar seems to be trying to move the shooter genre forward in its most recent games (Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, and Max Payne 3), the developers seem unable to escape the current expectations of the FPS genre:
[I]t’s Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 that most painfully illustrates the shooter ball and chain. I’ve played many games I wish had skippable cutscenes. Max Payne 3 is the first to make me long for skippable action. Buried under hours of conventional designer-charted gunfights is a story with genuine noir sensibility, not merely cosmetic style.
Not only is the gunplay repetitive and meaningless, on the Xbox 360 version the game mechanics for shooting are terrible.
Source: brainygamer.com
Social media explained with donuts
(Geek.com)
A repost in honor of National Doughnut Day
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[P]eople choose to buy an iPhone. No one chooses to go to prison. And if you happen to be in a situation where you’re “forced” to use an iPhone or iPad (by your school or work, say), it’s highly unlikely that any alternative platform they might have issued you would be any less locked down.
The piece is supposed to be a criticism of Apple’s platform design and policies, but really, what they’re doing is criticizing users for enjoying it.
” —John Gruber on the EFF’s Crystal Prison article
Exactly.
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“Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak called for Apple to jettison all its existing customers in order to chase a tiny market of techno nerds who frankly prefer free software and would never buy Apple products anyway, and wasn’t it obvious 30 years ago that Woz wasn’t the Steve with business skills?” — The Macalope on Steve Wozniak’s call for a more open Apple in “The Macalope Daily: And now a word from some kooks”