Category Archives: videogames

Well, I would stab five hundred mans, and I would stab five hundred more…

Posted on June 23, 2013 by baudattitude

  So I watched both the Microsoft and Sony presentations during E3 as they were streamed, because it’s a New Console Intro Year and those are always Big Time Hype Years.  Microsoft’s Windows Phone Live Events app, by the way, … Continue reading →

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A Bit Late to the Party

Posted on June 12, 2013 by baudattitude

I’m a big fan of emulation to keep older game consoles alive – most of my Saturn gaming is done with the excellent SSF emulator, for example.  It lets me avoid needing to hook up an 18-year-old console and, to … Continue reading →

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Dante’s Inferno: The Official Videogame of the Hit Movie

Posted on March 29, 2013 by baudattitude

  It’s March now, and we’re in the height of “Christmas II”, when all the games that missed the holiday season come out more-or-less at the same time. The last few days have seen a pair of rather significant releases … Continue reading →

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Patchwork again

Posted on February 28, 2013 by baudattitude

When I played Patchwork back in December, I thought that it was a relaxing and thoroughly charming point-and-click adventure, but bemoaned the difficulty of actually finding somewhere to BUY the darned thing – it was distributed as part of an … Continue reading →

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Stretching definitions.

Posted on February 2, 2013 by baudattitude

Since browsing the iTunes App Store is an exercise in frustration for anyone interested in seeing what’s down under all the annoyed birds and running temples, I tend to rely heavily on Game Center recommendations and the “Customers Also Bought” … Continue reading →

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Maybe a little uncivilized…

Posted on January 31, 2013 by baudattitude

Civilization is one of those long-running franchises that I’ve never really taken a crack at before.  It’s got that… reputation to it, the one where you start playing at 8 PM with the goal of getting in just one or … Continue reading →

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You might want a comfortable chair…

Posted on January 30, 2013 by baudattitude

I am rather beginning to suspect that I may choose games to play based solely on the amount of time it would take to explain them to my mum. For example, Call of Duty, which I could explain in the … Continue reading →

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Well, that’s a novel way to do things.

Posted on January 27, 2013 by baudattitude

I spent the weekend sick as a dog, but still managed to accomplish two things: 1) I am playing a “Civilization” game for the first time ever, specifically Civilization V, and I have discovered that its reputation for making time … Continue reading →

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Do Do Egg! …No, seriously.

Posted on January 6, 2013 by baudattitude

  After playing through Battle Cats this last week, I decided that I would check out the other games that Ponos had developed. I wound up downloading Do Do Egg!, a 0.99 color match sort of game that does its … Continue reading →

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In Year 2013, War Was Beginning

Posted on January 5, 2013 by baudattitude

    It’s been a long 50 years since Spacewar first burned through CPU cycles on a PDP-11, and there have been a lot of games written and played in those years. There’s a temptation to ask, sometimes, if there … Continue reading →

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