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24 April
Perfect Dark Zero
Perfect Dark Zero is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game console. With respect to storyline, Perfect Dark Zero is a prequel to the successful Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark, made in 2000. Zero takes place in the year 2020, predating the original Perfect Dark's storyline by three years. Two sequel novels have been released so far, Initial Vector and Second Front, which continue the story of Joanna Dark. A secret war has begun between shadowy corporations bent on world domination. Joanna Dark and her father Jack are caught up in the fight for the future of the planet. A routine bounty hunting mission rips open a global conspiracy that will change Joanna's destiny—forever.
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23 April
Gears of War - Gameplay Review
Complete Gears of War gameplay review
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Gears of War - Sound review
Look at the complete sound review of the Gears of War popular video game
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31 March
Video profile on Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake
In this video clip we take a close look at the video publisher Konami that has been publishing computer and video games since 1982. We examine the video game Metal Gear-part 2.
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Video Profile on Castlevania
In this video clip we take a close look at the video publisher Konami that has been publishing computer and video games since 1982. We examine the video game Castlevania.
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29 March
Wii Fit - Nintendo's New Muscle
Are you ready to start training your muscles without leaving your home?
Barron's Online's Naureen Malik takes a look at Nintendo's latest release: a fitness gaming system that guides exercise and strength training.
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Video Profile on Konami 05 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
In this video clip we take a close look at the video publisher Konami that has been publishing computer and video games since 1982. We examine the video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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25 March
Dragon Quest Sword – Wii game review
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is an exclusive First-person adventure by Square Enix for
Nintendo's Wii game console. The game is a spin-off from the Dragon Quest series. The Dragon Quest Swords development team includes many of the original designers of Enix's flagship series. Creator Yuuji Horii was one of the first game designers Nintendo president Satoru Iwata approached with the prototype Revolution controller. Horii contributed a video interview to Nintendo's Tokyo Game Show 2005 Revolution press conference. In it, he talked about making games accessible to a greater market, and cutting to the essence of "fun." When asked about Nintendo's Wii Remote, Horii stated "I agree that many interesting games can be created using this controller, but I still think that Nintendo would probably make the best games." Horii is joined by famed Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama and "the father of video game music" composer Koichi Sugiyama.
Dragon Quest Swords utilizes a Battle System reminiscent to those of First Person Rail Shooter games such as House of the Dead. However, instead of using a handgun, Dragon Quest Swords uses the functions of the Wii Remote as a Sword and a Shield. The direction of a sword slash is dependent on the direction the player sways the Wii Remote. In order to defend from incoming attacks, the player also has to use the Wii Remote and blocking the exact location of an enemy's attack on the screen.
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Metal Gear Solid 2 - video profile
In this video clip we take a close look at the video publisher Konami that has been publishing computer and video games since 1982. We examine the video game Metal Gear Solid2
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29 October
Holidays are coming
All three major game makers, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are positioning themselves for the holiday season-- focusing on price conscious families looking for simpler systems. Bobbi Rebell reports.
17 June
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars: Review
Sometime before I wrote about
playing a demo of a game and I was thrilled about it. Somewhat later I played entire game and to say in the beginning I still thrilled about it.
So lets start from the beginning; You start a game as GDI and you get a bunch of missions to solve and save the world, yada – yada – yada. The general plot is what is was expected to be. But it was done actually very good because all the missions are connected with video clips in between. Actors playing in those clips are obviously carefully planned to be asked for this job, as all of them are popular at the moment either as legend in SCI-FI world like Michael Ironside or playing in recent series like Galactica or Dr. House.



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23 May
Lemmings
Lemmings are small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic, in tundra biomes. Together with the voles and muskrats, they make up the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae), which forms part of the largest mammal radiation by far, the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes the rats, mice, hamsters, and gerbils... oh what the heck, you didn't type Lemmings in the search engine to look for info on some rodent. You were looking for a game ain't you?
Lemmings, a computer game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis in 1991, was one of the most popular computer games of its time. To me it still belongs to the best games I ever played. And I’m still playing it. Several games magazines of the time awarded the game maximum review scores. Original Commodore Amiga version had 120 levels, and on each level, the player had to guide a group of up to 100 lemmings (or 80 in many versions, such as DOS and Windows) home by giving individual lemmings various commands. The "lemmings" of the game are small, green-haired humanoid beings that mindlessly walk en masse into any danger in their path, following the popular myth that real lemmings behave in a similarly suicidal fashion.
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25 April
How to know if you're addicted to Ogame?
You are an Ogame addict if
1. you always wake up 10 minutes prior to building being finished, without the alarm
2. you make excuses for not going put with your girlfriend/boyfriend, again, because you have just been attacked at that moment
3. you think that everything will fix itself for 70% after you break it, including windows and television set
4. you make a step backward every time you see something written in red
5. each of your sentences include words such as fleet, attack, resources, raid…
6. you forgot login and password for the last 10 Universes
7. DragoSim (or some other
Ogame tool) is on your desktop instead of some great picture
8. any script or program you create you immediately post it to the forum (if you know how to program)
9. you are searching for a parking lot with more then 100 free slots when parking a car, for a colony
10. you don’t even see the commercials in the game, or you have ad blocker, or you paid a rent not to see ads
11. you know every other game even remotely similar to Ogame
12. you tried all Ogame-type games and returned to Ogame
13. you tried all available
skins for Ogame, but you returned to the first and default one because that one was the best
14. at Saturday night you something better to do then go out, meaning playing Ogame
15. you wrote 500 post at Ogame forum a
looooooong time ago
16. when going to sleep you are thinking if the fleet is traveling long enough and what will you build in the morning
17. when you dream you see text in green and red
18. when using teletext you see when they upgraded to new version and what changed with upgrade
19. you alone can predict conflict result without any software involved
20. something is happening to your advantage and you think is some sort of bug (even with the God) and is definitely is not your doing
21. everyday you explore at least one galaxy
22. somebody asks you “When will you stop playing Ogame?” and you say “Stopping is easy. I do it every time I go offline.”
23. your Internet bill is big not because of DivX download, or MP3 download, but because of the Ogame
24. Ogame is your homepage
25. kitchen clock is not ringing when the lunch is cooked but when the building is finished
26. you play over a year and you never used “Away mode” (because you don’t receive any resources then)
27. you never ask anyone to look for your account, but everybody ask you to look for their accounts
28. your best friends take a job as pizza deliverers just to be able to see you
18 April
Top online games according to Diggers
After spending hours on several addicting flash games I found on
Digg, I decided to find out which are the most popular on Digg. Having in mind that the users themselves decide if some game is good or not, I started to search games with most Diggs.
Well here are
top 20 games I could find. Only those that I could play are here. I didn’t include some great flash animations because there is nothing to play, just watch. And there were some game with more Diggs but the link didn’t work. Either is game removed or server is not responding at this time. Have in mind that number of Diggs is in the moment of writing this
article. Those numbers could be different five minutes after that.
1.
Tower Defense – Diggs 3419 - Simple idea, but game can be quite difficult. Buy some towers to stop the critters from going away. Kill them all.
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2.
Nanaca – Diggs 2803 – You are in the role of a girl who is pissed off on her
boyfriend, or ex, I don't know. Ram him with your bicycle and throw as far as possible.
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3.
Cloud Flowing – Diggs 2736 – In the domain of clouds, or in some liquid you are in the role of some weird creature that is trying to eat other weird creatures. Looks like a beautiful version of old Snake game.
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4.
Attractors – Diggs 2633 – Use your mouse to move leverages and try to divert falling balls toward the gravitational attractors and try to catch them in the gravity. Quite addictive.
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5.
Five Minutes – Diggs 2611 – You have five minutes to leave your job and die in the most spectacular way you can find.
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6.
Insane Orb – Diggs 2513 – Just another Pong clone.
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7.
Desktop Tower Defense – Diggs 2510 – Another version of tower defense, this time it is on your desktop.
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8.
Roboclaw – Diggs 2430 – Logical game that can be very difficult because it is not simple to move that robotic arm and capture what is required.
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9.
Line Game – Diggs 2419 – You are animated line. Go through a maze and don’t touch any borders or you die.
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10.
Blueprint – Diggs 2157 - Guide the ball to the target by making a path for it to follow.
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11.
Bowmaster – Diggs 2117 – Protect your castle with your bow ( or is it balista maybe?)
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12.
Aggresive Alpine Skiing – Diggs 2100 – This game looks like you are playing a skier on drugs, or was the animator on them maybe? The game is quite fast, making it quite difficult to play. Men with machine guns are making it more difficult.
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13.
Tower Defence – Diggs 1976 - just another version of tower defense. This is more abstract version.
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14.
Planned – Diggs 1696 – Logical game of interlinking some squares on the grid. Everytime you click on them they grow until they connect, but they all must be connected. Quite addictive.
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15.
Boxhead the Rooms – Diggs 1941 – Second sequel of Boxhead trilogy. Kill all incoming zombies.
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16.
Board dots – Diggs 1864 – Draw a path and fill entire board without intersecting your own path. Some math required to play.
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17.
Motherload – Diggs 1860 – You must collect resources from the ground. Digging deeper and deeper to get to the more valuable minerals.
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18.
Mouse 2 – Diggs 1800 – Practice your mouse control.
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19.
Tactical Assassin – Diggs 1759 – You are a hired sniper. There are missions to be done. No civilian casualties allowed.
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20.
Paper Pilot – Diggs 1705 - Create a plane from the sheet of paper and throw is as far as possible. You will feel like a kid again.
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15 April
3D missile
Flying games usually put you in a role of a pilot but have you ever played in a role of the plane? Or even better a rocket?
3D missile is such a game. You are the rocket itself and you are flying through a tunnel at high speed. The tunnel is not free but it has some obstacles and they are moving. You have to fly all the way through them. It is very good for those who like high speed racing games like Ballistics.
Hint: in a lover left corner is a circle with your position in a tunnel in respect to the ceter of the tunnel. Knowing your true position is really helpful
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