William Murphy over at MMORPG.com pushes back at the grind in MMOs, especially when you get to the endgame, Games like WoW are designed brilliantly to keep us playing and entertained as long as possible. It used to be that character progress in MMOs was incredibly slow. But WoW changed that. They made leveling an…
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And what exactly is the gresat game you will ever play? Nethack if you believe thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com Personally, I’d like Nethack a lot more if it had an achievement system, but that’s just me (*ducks*).
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Cartoon Network actually has a Stark Tower Defense game. Seriously. Unfortunately, the title works a lot better than the actual game, which is a shame.
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CorsixTH is an open source clone of Bullfrog’s 1997 game Theme Hospital. Playing the clone requires either a copy of the original game or a copy of the demo version of the game. As the Google code page for the project notes, As computers evolve, we risk losing some classic games. Bullfrog’s Theme Hospital, published…
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Whether you love them, can’t stand them, or could care less, achievement systems within games are clearly here to stay. Personally, I’m a big fan of achievements, both to track my progress in a game in general as well as in relation to other people as well as to give an excuse to do goofy…
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Post I.T. Shooter is a basic shooter game done on a 32 x 24 grid of Post-It Notes in stop-motion like effect. The gameplay itself is very basic and nothing to write home about, but the presentation and graphical styling is awesome. This was put together by Kloonigames which puts out an experimental game each…
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What does the world need now? MORE ZOMBIE GAMES! Enter, Exor Studios’ Zombie Driver in which the player drives cars around, upgrading them or choosing new cars with different features, all the while mowing down zombies and rescuing survivors. Supposed to be released sometime in November 2009, but no pricing as of yet on the…
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I realized the other day that I’d finally quite playing World of Warcraft (though I still haven’t canceled my subscription). Oddly, it wasn’t that I woke up one day and suddenly said “no more WoW” but rather that I just gradually stopped finding reasons to log in and just sort of stopped while I carried…
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For the most part, I’ve tried to give up computer games. I’ve got the XBOX in the living room and like to reserve that for gaming these days, so when I sit down at my desk I’m actually working on projects rather than firing up World of Warcraft to look for some hapless huntard to…
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Gamasutra has a fascinating paper from 2001 from the folks responsible for coding the networking in Age of Empires 1 and 2 — which had to work over 28.8 modems.