gaming

How Nintendo will go the way of SEGA.

August 12, 2011

Since 2007′s release of the iPhone, Nintendo has adamantly opposed the device in favor of its own mobile consoles, much as they’ve done with every competitor’s hardware in the past. And Nintendo has a legacy to stand on, with the NES and SNES and even the N64. But things kind of break down after that, [...]

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Monopoly’s most hated rule is the best one.

July 27, 2011

There’s a rule that most Monopoly players don’t know about, which we remember a cousin telling us about when we were but a wee lad. The rule states that if someone opts not to purchase an available property after landing on it, then it is auctioned off to the highest bidder. Not having ever played [...]

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A tower of tiny consequences.

July 21, 2011

While the Sim City franchise was the flagship for the Sim genre, other Sim games managed to capture an audience as well, offering similar gameplay but in a different setting. One such title was Sim Tower, released in 1994, which resembled Sim City in most aspects, but instead of building a city across a landmass, [...]

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Apple’s console already exists.

June 23, 2011

We’ve been somewhat critical of the Apple TV as a gaming console, and when we last wrote about the subject, we proferred that the key to Apple’s gaming platform success was already achieved in Apple’s mobile devices: Technologies like AirPlay, or even video-out adapters, may well serve gamers to stream iPhone and iPad gaming to [...]

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Upcoming Order & Chaos patch.

May 13, 2011

Naysayers be damned: Gameloft has posted on the upcoming Order & Chaos (O&C) patch, despite the fact that most critics insisted that Gameloft’s lazy attitude on updating previous titles would negatively affect O&C. The bullets: New quests will be added in the last two high-level regions A server migration system will be implemented, allowing you [...]

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A bit more on Order & Chaos.

May 10, 2011

Questions about Order & Chaos (O&C) are still making the rounds, because the game’s features aren’t documented well, and finding out more about the game is either a practice in raising your Googling skills, else based on in-game experience. For some, neither of these options is desirable. Since we’ve wasted time on both endeavors, we’ll [...]

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