Daily Archives: March 26, 2012

Echo Bazaar ditches Facebook

That headline is misleading in a couple of ways. First, the game Echo Bazaar, a cannily uncanny union of writing, RPGing, and world building, is no longer called Echo Bazaar. Now it’s called Fallen London, after the name of the … Continue reading

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MLB 12 The Show: phantom benching

It’s August, hot as balls in Altoona (play-by-play announcer Matt Vasgersian likes to tell me the game-time temperature), and the season is scooting along. At some point along the way, I’ve lost my starting status and been demoted to the … Continue reading

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The stinky shambling awesomeness of Operation Raccoon City

The developers at Slant Six are mostly known for successfully packing Sony’s SOCOM series into the PSP a couple of times. In Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, they’ve tackled an equally ambitious project: packing Resident Evil into a Lost Planet … Continue reading

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Unity of Command: introducing the wargame for everyone

Unity of Command is billed as an operational-level wargame. That’s totally wrong. It’s actually a game about moving big heads around a map to rub an eraser over colorful enemy territory. That’s my first impression, anyway. After the jump, wargaming … Continue reading

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March 26: lead zeppelin alert

Not enough games have armored zeppelins. Gettysburg: Armored Warfare (pictured!) intends to address that by going back in time and making the Civil War less boring. Unfortunately, it’s one of those team-based multiplayer only shooters with RTS elements that will … Continue reading

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Qt3 Movie Podcast: The Hunger Games

We love great movies in which Jennifer Lawrence plays the desperate provider for her fatherless backwoods family, subsisting on squirrels and true grit. Unfortunately, this week we saw The Hunger Games instead. At the 40-minute mark, we react to this … Continue reading

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