A Look At Archive

  • W2 As Funding Increases

    A Look At – Fully Funded: What’s Next for Wasteland 2? And Games in General?

    Apologies to readers who don’t care about this game – but it’s going to get it’s lion share of coverage.  Not only because it’s a sequel to my favorite game ever, but also because the dramatic shift in how creative media in the future will...

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  • W2 Forums

    A Look At – Wasteland 2: inXile is doing it right!

    So, for the foreseeable future I’m going to be a cheerleader here for some smaller / indie games, or older style games, some that have Kickstarter components.  Doublebear’s Dead State, Double Fine’s Point and Click Adventure, whatever Obsidian ends up announcing… and, of course, inXile’s...

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  • JQ Kickstarter

    A Look At – Kickstarter: Is It Too Early To Say Revolution?

    Spoiler – probably, but we can be hopeful.  And people at the moment history is being made rarely can tell for certain whether or not what they are witnessing will have long lasting effects or no. I’d argue this is all thanks to the world...

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    A Look At – “Social Gaming”

    This may be a bit lazy, but  bear with me.  First, go read this - http://garethfouche.com/revulsion where you find stuff like this - The player growing weary is actually a design goal. It bears repeating, gradually increasing boredom is actually a design goal for a...

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  • A Look At

    A Look At – What is an RPG? Part Three

    This is something of an ongoing debate in gaming circles – what makes a video game an RPG? It is my intention, over a series of articles, to look at the cRPG and console RPG world, compare it to the table top (also referred to...

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  • A Look At

    A Look At – What is an RPG? Part Two

    This is something of an ongoing debate in gaming circles – what makes a video game an RPG? It is my intention, over a series of articles, to look at the cRPG and console RPG world, compare it to the table top (also referred to...

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