If you don't follow Microsoft closely, you may be surprised to discover that its annual one-day meeting with financial analysts, called the Microsoft... »
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Race for the Galaxy’s epic sci-fi storyline is all in the cards
The beauty of strategy games is how much story they can tell based on the simple interplay of gameplay mechanics with just the right amount of flavor. For instance, Race for the Galaxy is a tabletop card game published by Rio Grande. However, a fellow named Keldon Jones has created a basic interface... »
We Farm smells like more than just Farmville for the iPhone
We Rule , the free social networking game, held me -- and therefore Fidgit -- in its thrall for at least a week . Not that there was anything special about it beyond it being a) really charming, b) really convenient since it's for the iPhone, and c) just clever enough with its... »
See pyramids crash into battleships in Civilization V
On one hand, the box art for Civilization V is awfully busy. The same city has built the Sydney Opera House, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, and the Pyramids? But on the other hand, it's awfully awesome »
Facebook booted out of fantasy game Highborn
From the latest patch notes for Highborn , a fantasy strategy game for the iPhone that required connecting with someone on Facebook to play a multiplayer game: Removed Facebook-based multiplayer (NOTE: all existing Facebook multiplayer games will be deleted in this update) This patch adapts the game to Open Feint, the current de... »
What does Darkstar have to do with Brad Pitt and Chuck Barry?
You met J. Allen Williams yesterday . »
What would Lego Starcraft look like?
This is lovely, and not just because it seems to end the same as every game I play against the Protoss: "Hey, look, I've won! Oh, no I haven't..." Of course, now I want to see the Zerg done in Legos. Is that even possible »
Update for Din’s Curse bends light, shadows, and difficulty level
One of my favorite games so far this year is Din's Curse , the action RPG with dungeons that aren't content to wait patiently for you to clear them out whenever the heck you feel like it ( review here ). A new patch (get it here ) adds a visual effect that... »
The long strange saga of Darkstar. Part I.
J. Allen Williams (above left), who goes by Jeff, will be the first one to tell you that Darkstar isn't really a videogame. Even though, yeah, it kind of is »
Starcraft II: Night of the living Zerg
I'm about half way through the single-player campaign in Starcraft II and I'm already bored out of my skull. This is pretty much exactly like every other real time strategy game that thought, hey, let's tell a story! Real time strategy games are a terrible format for telling stories, because the stories exist... »
Announcing the upcoming release of EMET v2
What is EMET? In October 2009, we released a tool on this blog called EMET that provides users with the ability to deploy security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications. »