Jonathan H. Liu over at Geekdad has a nice writeup of the Kickstarter-funded SKIRMISH: Modern Card Warfare, which he calls a blend of Stratego and War (though he does take a lot of potshots at poor, innocent War. Sounds like a guy who might not be too good at War): I think what I like about the game
Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has a new game coming out next week, and it looks flippin’ fantastic. In case you’ve been living in a cave, er, under a rock, here is what The Cave looks like: Other than the game’s lovely aesthetic, the thing that stands out most, of course, is Gilbert’s legendary
–Bryony MacKenzie, BBC News.
The Street Fighter games are friezes, not sculptures. Even when they show visual depth of field, they still exist more or less along one axis, and that’s the way we like them; that’s how they exist in our imagination. But what if the games were played in the first person? That’s the question answere
Despite the enormous amount of coverage and sales of the Wii in the early years of this hardware cycle, and despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 appears to have the better upcoming slate of exclusive releases, DFC Intelligence, the market research firm, predicts that the Xbox 360 will have defini