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High Piled - Free Game!

Check out www.highpiled.com for a neat little free game with cool physics.  Apparently it was made in just 17 hours.  The development time was probably so small due to using an existing phsyics code library.
Anyway all you do is try to make a giant stack of blocks and watch them tumble down when you get it […]

Who are Casual Gamers?

In fact what is a casual game? Well wiki has a detailed answer, but basically it’s a simple game designed to appeal to wide audience. Typically casual games are not big budget and not action-based; they are normally puzzle/card-type games that you can load and play straight away with the mouse. Casual games don’t generally […]

Pokémon first review

Pocketgamer have posted one of the first english reviews of the new Pokémon game for the DS and, unlike Pokémon Mystery Dungeon this is a “proper” Pokémon game.
I may be 20 something years old but this game really excites me. I have only played one other Pokémon game, but really loved it. I was doing […]

Edge - inside bungie

A recent issue of Edge had quite a long interview with various people from Bungie - the developers of the rather popular videogame HALO. The interview is now online and makes for quite an interesting read.
“The trick is to avoid designing or writing by committee. You have to take what’s best from the input you’re […]

Driller Remake

Ovine by Design has released another classic remake called Driller.  Driller was the first in a series of 8 and 16-bit games that used the Freescape engine which was an early 3D engine.  I first played Driller on a Spectrum and was amazed, even though the framerate was about 1FPS!  I also played Total Eclipse […]

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