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As a much-belated follow-up to a post I wrote back in 2001, I had the intention at the time of making an original module for the game Neverwinter Nights (the game can still be bought on GOG.com) that I called Forever Lost. Even though I never got beyond writing the outline, creating names for some of the characters, and thumbing [...]

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Like most kids of the 80s, I enjoyed the awesomeness that a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and a Gameboy brought to my life. I had a modest library of solid games at the time, but as the 90s rolled in my interest in console games waned and I moved on to computer games. At this time I handed my NES [...]

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So for the uninitiated, I grew up during the golden age of video games, the 1980s, which includes the era of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). By current standards, the pioneering games of that era were graphically and logically quite primitive. Coupled with the fact that many of those games have imperfections and areas that could stand for improvement [...]

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Just today I discovered Lord of Ultima, a web browser-based game. Besides the fact that it has really nothing to do with the original Ultima game series (other than its namesake), it's still kind of a neat game concept. It plays a bit like a simplified version of Age of Empires with players building cities across a large singular continent [...]

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Since, I built my first new computer in nearly seven years this Summer, I've been trying to catch up on a long list of computer games that I've been dying to check out. At the top of the list was Bioshock, which turned out to be a pretty awesome game in nearly every aspect. The story and setting was hauntingly [...]

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I just picked up World of Goo with the "pay whatever you want" sale (similar to what Radiohead did a few years back). I didn't drop as much money on it as I should have, since I try and watch my spending. But it's well worth it for this sleek little game. The indie game market is really picking up [...]

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The first of my many rants is now online.  This one is about Online Gaming.  My future rants will include the "new" Battletech, computer game development, the 9/11 attacks (maybe), software piracy, Sci-Fi TV shows, and the quality of computer porn (well, maybe not that last one.) Playing games over the Internet is a fairly new innovation.  It originated from [...]

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I have been playing and witnessing the evolution of computer/video games for most of my life now.  I can still remember the days of playing black and white (actually green) games on my old Apple IIe.  And since then we have come a really long way in the video game evolution. Ultima This has to be one of the greatest [...]