If we ever got the urge to try another Skype-based RPG (since the last one worked out so great), I think it should be this.

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Rockstar Games - the company behind such franchises as Grant Theft Auto, Manhunt, and State of Emergency - released their newest game, Red Dead Redemption, last week. I've played some of it; it's okay. It's an open-world, free-roaming western game, and I don't really like westerns, so that probably inhibits my enjoyment a little (maybe even a lot ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of talk about the PS3 game Heavy Rain, almost all of it declaring the game to be a massive step forward in terms of storytelling and maturity for the medium. Described as an "interactive drama" and, in the words of the game's director David Cage, "a very dark film noir thriller with mature themes," Heavy Rain tells the story of ( Read more... )

Check this out:

http://www.offworld.com/2009/06/side-scrolls-8-bit-ninja-gaide.html

That is a paper diorama someone made depicting part of the first level of the original NES "Ninja Gaiden". That's entirely pointless, and yet still pretty damn cool.