Scott posts about a friend who is starting to play Dungeons & Dragons again. This is geeky, yes, but less geeky than video games, I’d say. I can trace a lot of things I use in my personal and professional life every day to the D&D games I ran from fifth through eighth grade — [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Games'
Discovering the GameCube on Wii
January 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Games, Wii
One interesting and unheralded feature of the Wii is the fact that it plays Nintendo GameCube titles. (It also plays older games that you can buy online from the Nintendo 64, NES and other Nintendo systems through the "virtual console" feature, but I haven’t played around with those yet.)
We are getting a ton of mileage [...]
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Wii Unboxed
January 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Games, Wii
Unwrapped by jeffreymcmanus.
My xmas present finally arrived yesterday.
I have benefited from the obsessive gadgeteers’ unboxing ritual over the years, so I decided to do one of my own. Enjoy!
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Why the Wii Will Win
December 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments · Games, Web/Tech, Wii
wee wii by chrisglass.
People don’t take pictures of their kids playing Playstation or XBox. I’m just saying.
(There are hundreds more photos like this on Flickr’s Wii Motion pool.)
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Game and Toy Licensing Sucks
November 11th, 2006 · No Comments · Games
Link: Older Toys Seek New Fans With Makeovers – New York Times.
”Our challenge is to continue to make Etch a Sketch exciting for the next generation of kids,” said Martin Killgallon, marketing director for Bryan-based Ohio Art. ”One way to do that is with licensing.”
It seems to me like yet another way would be to [...]
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Microsoft to Offer Software To Make Game Creation Easier
August 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Games
Link (paid reg required): WSJ.com – Microsoft to Offer Software To Make Game Creation Easier.
SEATTLE — Making console videogames has long been the turf of sophisticated professional game developers. Now Microsoft Corp., in a nod to YouTube, MySpace and other popular sources of user-generated content, says it wants to turn ordinary players into console game [...]
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Peter Molyneux tells Apple to “Get Behind Games”
July 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Games
Interesting coinkydink this morning, I was poking around looking for a game to buy for my new MacBook Pro and not finding much of anything that grabbed my attention when this quote from Peter Molyneaux in MacWorld popped up. It sounds like he’s asking for two things from Apple: 1) better integrated tools for game [...]
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Le Street Golf
August 23rd, 2005 · 4 Comments · Games
WMMNA reports on these crazy cats in Paris and Germany who play golf on the street. Like Frisbee golf, except without the Frisbees and with golf balls. Cool!
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Nelson on City of Heroes
August 4th, 2004 · No Comments · Games
Nelson posts some interesting thoughts on the multiplayer online game City of Heroes. He thinks it’s boring. And I have to agree with him, but I also think that’s sort of the point.
I think it’s important to evaluate MMORPGS not as a repetitive game, but instead as an amusing context for online chat. If you [...]
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