Aug

21

Juicy info ahoy!

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Blizzard will will kicking off 2009’s BlizzCon very shortly, and those who have subscribed to the live internet TV stream will see the hot news as it happens – but there are also plenty of other ways to keep up to date with developments! There are plenty of blogs (such as Massively and Joystiq amongst [...]

Aug

18

Ho-Hum

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Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve named yourself into a corner? I do. I have it right now, in fact.
A couple of weeks ago I was flicking through some of the chuckle-raising results of the Video Game Name Generator and, after hitting refresh a random number of times, saw this title:
Ho-Hum [...]

Aug

10

Castles in the sky

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Twitter followers might see that I’ve been playing the classic NES platformer Super Mario Brothers lately. Since I call myself a retro gamer, it’s on my list of “games to play and finish” – along with a whole slew of other oldschool console games (which I might get around to posting some time). In doing [...]

Aug

2

There’s gold in them thar pixels…

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There are a lot of freeware games listing sites out there that don’t seem to take much care or attention in their content, or worse, use them for a purely mercenary reason. Fortunately, the ranks of half-decent indie info sites has been swelled with the addition of a new effort by AuthenticKaizen and his Pixel [...]

Aug

1

Poing! PC v1.0.1c available

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Hey hey! Sorry to wake you up, but here’s the announcment you’ve been waiting for…
Poing! PC version 1.0.1c features a few small aesthetic fixes but, far more importantly than that, also comes with 2 new levelsets (that’s a whole 16 new levels) contributed by Poing fans around the world.
You can get the goodies from the [...]