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Steven Spielberg’s Boom Blox

When I first heard that Spielberg was working on a exclusive Wii game, epic story and graphics came to mind. Ironically the man of verbose imagery opted for a simpler, casual oriented game called Boom Blox.
The idea is simple. You progress thru levels in the form of physics based puzzles. Sometimes you have to blow […]

Indie Games of GDC ‘08

The smaller studios are doing an amazing job pushing creative concepts larger companies could never do. Although there were and still are plenty of indie games being presented at this year’s GDC, these are my favorite 3 so far. Sure we’ve seen and heard of them before but they’re so good, it doesn’t hurt to […]

Resident Evil 4

I played Resident Evil 4 last year on Game Cube and I loved every minute of it. I’ve been a big fan of the Resident Evil games (but not the FPS spin-offs) ever since I played the first one on Playstation about 10 years ago (anyone remember that?). So I was very keen to […]

Mainstream games that I played in 2007

I didn’t play many mainstream games in 2007, and by mainstream I mean PC, console and handheld titles. However, I did play a ton of casual games (mainly as “research” because I write casual games for a living). I was also crazy busy making my last game and so I didn’t get much […]

LEGO Indiana Jones - more stuff

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the 4th (and final?) in the Indiana Jones series of movies. Initially I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of Harrison Ford putting on the hat, and jacket and grabbing his bull whip. Afterall he must be in his early nineties by now - however I’ve […]

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