If you never played Portal: The Flash Version, then you really ought to. Two major Valve fans put together a two-dimensional game that rather excellently recreates the clever puzzles and aesthetic of Portal, last year’s Orange Box masterpiece. If you never played Portal, then I don’t want to know you. Now, spotted over at ShackNews, the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 28, 2008
If you own a decent PC, nabbing a copy of 2007’s ridiculously awesome spatial-thought stimulator Portal is a piece of cake, but home console owners aren’t so lucky. The Nintendo Wii crowd already had their turn to be disappointed, but today we learned Microsoft rejected a potential Xbox Live Arcade version of Portal as well.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Phil Therien, a game designer from Ubisoft, declared that the company would no longer focus on developing hardcore FPS titles. According to an article at Destructoid, via an interview at GamePro: Therien went on the comment that the market for shooters had become “too narrow”, and that compromises had to be made in order to appeal [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 17, 2008
Last week, Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra and GameSetWatch wrote an article pondering the question of why we, as gamers, are completing fewer games. She outlines the possible reasons for this result. First, though, one needs to accept that gamers are completing fewer games, and I doubt that many gamers would argue with that thesis.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 13, 2008
If you haven’t yet developed an obsessive attachment to the Weighted Companion Cube, prided yourself on proclaiming “The cake is a lie” at the slightest mention of dessert or reveled in the sinister beauty of Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive,” then this is the perfect time to pick up Portal, proclaimed far and wide as 2007’s [...]
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