Pillars of Eternity is the RPG recently released by Obsidian Entertainment which is a very deliberate return to Baldur's Gate-style isometric games. It had a very successful Kickstarter, which I participated in, and has been much-anticipated for freeing us from the orbit of Bioware as the only studio producing RPG's with companion conversation ( Read more... )

Haven't you always wanted to be a mad scientist? Haven't you always wanted to build the perfect beast and show them that they shouldn't HAVE TREATED YOU LIKE THAT?

Well, now you can. Kaiju-A-Gogo Be the mad scientist they said you couldn't be.

Being both a gamer and involved in mental health, I found this thing, which is amazing: Depression Quest.

I haven't got the feeling that most of the rest of y'all are as excited about this as I am, but I'm not about to let that keep me from posing this:

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It drops on the twenty-fifth.

This, if it works (and that's a big "if" I know) would be the best thing evar. I loved Loom precisely because of its music gameplay and an MMO built along similar lines would scratch just about every entertainment itch I have. Unfortunately, at this point, the Kickstart looks doomed to failure, with not even a tenth of the goal met halfway through ( Read more... )

There is this Kickstarter project that looks kind of interesting, especially for my readers that like the kind of branching plots BioWare promises and, sometimes, actually delivers. Give it a look and see what you think.

I have now completed Antichamber, despite previous promises to quit - which should tell you something either about me or the game. In the end, it was still a bit more fiddly in places than I would have liked. However, for the most part, I thought the puzzles were fair and, almost every time, I was stuck because I hadn't actually solved the puzzle ( Read more... )

I think I've got about as far in Antichamber as I'm going to, so I'm going ahead and review it. First of all, it is quite brilliant and worth looking at. However, be prepared for it to get very, very fiddly about half to three-quarters of the way through - which is why I'm giving up on it ( Read more... )

I won't spoil it by actually talking about Antichamber, you can find plenty of reviews to do that for you all ready. I will say that, if you are like me, it will melt your brain. Also, if you are like me, you won't mind a bit.

I am, as most of you know, something of a fan of games. I've almost finished my fourth solo character in SWtOR and will probably start on a fifth soon, for instance. However, as I am sure I have also mentioned, I find a number of the current crop of AAA game titles dissatisfying.

The remedy I've been applying to this situation is to support a ( Read more... )