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  • [Gamesbriefers] Will the big next-gen console title be Free-to-Play?
    Question: At E3 this year, while the hullaballoo was about AAA games, in physical boxes, with high initial pricepoints, it also became clear that the next generation of consoles will support free-to-play. Almost unnoticed, Tekken came out as a free-to-play game on PS3. Sony announced that free-to-play games would not have to pay for PlayStationPlus to enable […]
  • A humongous adventure
    This is about a train, a game, and a girl. A few days ago I took my daughter Zoe on her first train trip. We boarded Amtrak's Hoosier State bound for Chicago at 6:58 AM. Zoe was exuberant, equipped with all the necessities for a 4-hour excursion: a stack of her favorite books, a bag of snacks, and her 3DS loaded with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Zoe was e […]
  • 1983 in British Computing
    Like its American counterpart, the British PC industry was untenably fragmented by the beginning of 1983. The previous year had been deemed Information Technology Year by the government. Unlike so many government initiatives, this one had succeeded swimmingly in its goal of drumming up excitement and enthusiasm amongst the public for microcomputers. Where ex […]
  • AI War: First Four Years Postmortem (And By Extension Arcen History)
    Postmortem sounds so grisly, doesn't it?  I was tempted to call this a retrospective, but that sounds a bit foofy.  So here we are.  This isn't even a true retrospective, because AI War is still going strong and looks to remain that way for some time. The time period this postmortem will examine is May 2009 through the end of May 2013. As an exampl […]
  • UFO: Enemy Unknown: Ethereals!
    Click for a 10-minute 720p video. […]
  • Impressions: The Last of Us
    I'll always buy Naughty Dog games, they having convinced me of their undying committment to our love via the Uncharted series, but I don't tend to slaver with excitement before they actually come out. Thus I wasn't suffering from the can't-waits in the days leading up the The Last of Us, their fungus-fueled post-apocalyptic proxical-paren […]
  • Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol Released
    I'm pretty much aware of the fact that Gnome's Lair isn't really covering many game releases these days, but a) that's something that will hopefully change (already looking into new ways of covering things) and b) I really enjoyed that Wyv and Keep preview of yore. In case you haven't gotten the point reader, well, Wyv and Keep: The […]
  • Disaster: the unthinkable has happened
    There must be someone else we can blame for this. […]
  • June 16th
    Since Kommandantin Ligman is off attending the Enormous Explosions Expo or some such, it has again fallen to me, humble foreign correspondent, to bring you the latest in quality games writing. Hold on to your fedoras, it’s This Week In Videogame Blogging. theletterethreetim.es Speaking of the Egregious Enthusiasm Expo, Jordan Mammo wrote about corporate clai […]
  • Amiga Magazines Free (Plus Shipping…) for the Asking
    Just before we left the U.S. for Denmark almost four years ago, I bought a cache of old Amiga magazines on eBay to help with the book I was planning to write there. By the time we moved to Norway almost two years ago, the book was finished, and so I deposited the magazines at […]