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The Death of Cyber
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No comments on The Death of CyberI’m becoming increasingly irritated by the lack of quality of writing in newspapers these days, and specifically, newspaper supplements. I have no problem with the main reporting, but the ‘lifestyle’ sections are just awful. Maybe they’ve always been this dull and boring, or maybe my standards have been risen by culling the best of the…
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Time Commanders review
Imagine playing an RTS game like Total War (in fact, just like Total War) with three of your friends, on a big screen and a couple of military history advisors. That’s what BBC2’s new show Time Commanders is, essentially. There are a few twists, of course. None of the four players actually got to touch…
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Syberia 2 gets colder
Syberia II pushed back to 2004 – some disappointing news from Microids. Apparently they’re doing it so they can make a simultaneous release on PC, PS2 and XBox – but do console gamers really play adventure games? I suppose I shouldn’t be too bothered, since I have an unplayed copy of The Longest Journey still…
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Article
Well, it took me about a month longer than I expected to finish the first draft on the game article I’m writing. I suppose I could’ve done it a bit quicker but I’ve had to conduct several interviews which took some time; in fact, I’m still waiting for someone to get back to me before…
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Krait
In Wednesday night’s pub quiz, this question came up: What kind of animal is a krait? After a bit of silence and mulling, I volunteered, ‘You know, that’s the name of a ship class on Elite.’ Someone perked up. ‘Really? What were the other classes?’ ‘Well, there was the Cobra – that was the standard…
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Syberia Review
Since my last post, I haven’t made much progress on the article. At all. Between my 21st birthday and playing Syberia, I’ve been kept from doing any serious writing. Luckily, both were a lot of fun. Syberia is a graphical adventure game of the old-fashioned thirdperson point-and-click ilk, and was produced last year by Microids…
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CTP2 Source Code to be released
Call To Power 2 Source Code To Be Released – I’m not fully aware of the story behind this, but it seems like the source code to this buggy yet fun Civilization pseudo-clone is going to be released, as open source, to the online community very shortly. It can only be good news!
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Another one bites the dust
The Sims Online hits $10 at Amazon indicating that things aren’t doing so well at Maxis or EA these days. The reviews at Amazon paint a similar picture of departing players and lack of excitement. Back to the drawing board, it seems.
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Casino
After an interesting day where I got to see remote controlled planes with moveable cameras fly around a field west of Sydney (photos up when I get back) I went to the Star City Casino in the evening with Andrew, the friend I’ve been staying with. Star City was quite a touristy place and was…
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GamesFilter
A while ago I mentioned that I was thinking about setting up a collaborative weblog akin to MetaFilter, called (appropriately enough), GamesFilter. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on it on and off during the periods in which my brain refuses to accept any more information about neuroscience. GamesFilter has been running for…
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