Category: Gaming

Another game added to my ‘I want it, but will it ever be released’ media list

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Faraway joins the unobtainum list after a wonderful profile in the New Yorker. At the time, I figured it wouldn’t be long until I could experience the game for myself, as a device-carrying member of the app-consuming public. I even got to try an unfinished version of it once, at the apartment of a friend of the developer, in a somewhat frantic thirty-minute session that left me both slack-jawed with awe and certain I’d no more scratched Faraway’s surface than I had physically exited our solar system’s heliosheath. That was two years ago.

That moment when a 3D games console is a good idea

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One of those ‘something in my eye’ stories: I say I’m “mostly” stereoblind because despite my eyes’ poor grasp of trigonometry, the optical center of my brain seems to work just fine. I discovered this the first time I held a 3DS and played Pilotwings Resort. To be perfectly honest, I really didn’t expect much from the console. But clever readers have already noticed that my sight lines meet at just the right distance for holding a 3DS. After playing with the depth slider off for a few minutes, I slid it up out of sheer curiosity and saw something I

The story of Vlambeer and Ridiculous Fishing

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A sobering look at indie game development, with (I think) a happy ending, from Polygon. The interview is over. The story, told in pieces at least a hundred times in bars, at hamburger joints, on stages and in private circles of up-and-coming game developers, has now been told for the first time in its entirety. It is a story about the little guy getting bullied and making a stand. And winning. It is the story of Ridiculous Fishing, and how two men from the Netherlands rallied the worldwide community of independent game developers to take on the practice of game cloning

Is Splinter Cell too hard for gamers, or too hard for reviewers?

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Splinter Cell ‘too hard to sell’, says Ubisoft’s Jade Raymond: “One of the things that held it back is despite all of the changes that have happened over the years, it’s still one of the more complex and difficult games to play,” Raymond told Eurogamer. If the true value of a game is longevity and learning, the ‘instant hit’ needed to sell a game needs to be traded away. I wonder if the real issue is that the game is too hard to play in the first two hours, and most reviewers who post scores that are picked up by Metacritic

All the cars are available… for a price

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Normally when you buy a console game you expect to get the whole game. Not for EA’s latest version of Real Racing. While you can technically play through every race, win all the events, and receive all the cars, that’s going to take you either a lot of grinding, or a lot of dollars. Our numbers show that it would take over 472 hours to earn enough money to buy all of the cars in the game,” details 148Apps.com founder and regular PocketGamer.biz contributor Jeff Scott. Or to purchase all of the cars with real money via in-app purchase, it would