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Sociotown - web based mmog

Sociotown is a new massive multiplayer online game (mmog), and it has just entered public beta phase. The most interesting part about the game is it’s 3d, and in a web browser. In the past online mmog’s have generally been 2d so it’s nice to see these things join the 21st century (not that there’s […]

Lost Winds preview

Lost Winds is a gorgeous new game coming to the Nintendo Wii via Wii Ware.
It’s being developed by Cambridge based Frontier development (a company I applied for a job at many moons ago).
Apparently Frontier have an internal forum where they encourage employees to discuss game concepts, and Lost Winds was born from this. I really […]

Fun Link Friday

I’m going away this weekend so I actually wrote this post last night (Thursday), have a good weekend.

Color Blind gamers - an article on awareness. I am one of the colour blind gamers they’re discussing so this is particularly relevant to me.
7 Greatest Video Game Urban Legends
Parents: Severed heads in games bad for kids; sex […]

Tales of Vesperia

Oh snap! Namco just announced a new RPG exclusively for the Xbox360. Tales of Vesperia follows the Tales storyline except this will be the first to go HD. YAY! Hopefully the game will help bolster the 360’s position in Japan. The console is RPG starved - at least RPGs from Japanese developers. No word on […]

Trackmania Nations Forever

The latest Trackmania game has just been released, and it’s another freebie.
The worst thing about the release? The name, why can’t they add a number on the end? It would make it much easier to tell which version is which. You see, as well as the free version, there is also Trackmania United Forever, which […]

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