Simulated Cities
I had the original SimCity for the Amiga, but it didn’t really grab me. It wasn’t until SimCity 2000 (Back when you could use 2000 to sound futuristic) that I got hooked in...
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Ding
This is Salique. She’s a Human Engineer in Guild Wars 2: My first MMO was Ultima Online. For a long time, I tried a lot of MMOs for a trial period, until...
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Wot I Think: Horace’s Endless Christmas
With the popularity of the character Horace only eclipsed by The Hobbit for exposure this year, it was inevitable that a studio would sign up to do some kind of cheap cash-in game this holiday...
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Mann vs Machinations
In five days, just at the start of the Bank Holiday weekend, Guild Wars 2 launches. I have, as my girlfriend will confirm with some resignation, been spending an awful lot of time...
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The Secret World Beta Weekend
The problem is, that there’s a lot that is New And Revolutionary and therefore Bad And Different, and there’s a lot that’s Exactly The Same, and therefore Copying WoW. The same kind of...
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Diablo 3
Diablo 3 is … Diablo 2++. No revolutions in gameplay, no “wow” moments, really. I mean, the previous game *was* great, and this is just as click-addictive as the last one. The fighting is...
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Awww, Poor Game
Game‘s gone into administration. PwC, who are leading the process, have blamed this on: “[...] a very ambitious overseas expansion into seven territories in addition to the UK. On top of that the...
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So it turns out that when I imported “All” the content from K3 to Epistula, and from there to WordPress, over the last ten years, some stuff didn’t actually make it though. Specifically,...
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One of the reasons I like Steam is because it works. The prices are good, the software’s fairly reliable, I’ve never really had the massive issues others have with Offline Mode (That is...
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I currently have ten job applications on the go, three are on the boil, two I actually actively want. Since experience has told me that I can hold motivations for around ten jobs...
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