PLAYING

I rarely do videogames any more. But for some reason yesterday I started playing This War of Mine from 11 bit Studios. It's a simulation where you control a group of refugees trapped in a war torn city. They are constantly hungry and tired. They get injured and sick. Your job is simply to keep them alive and there's never a comfortable ( Read more... )

It's rare indeed that I'll last more than a few levels of a videogame these days. And this despite the fact that I was a fiend for them growing up. Yet, just this week, I tried my hand at an old PC classic called Portal, and instantly fell in love. It's a beautifully weighted puzzler backed up by a wonderfully written, slyly humorous script ( Read more... )

I looove reading posts wherein the writer raves about one or more of their favourite things. I always want to try them out for myself, despite the fact that with people being individual in their likes and dislikes, it's rarely going to work for me in the same way.

Just this morning spookysqueak was describing an ancient video game I've never heard of, but I ( Read more... )