Posts Tagged ‘Mac’
Review: Trauma (PC)
“We need a better word than video game.”
This is a statement I’ve heard a lot in the last few years. With the expansion of the medium, many have felt that the term unfairly describes certain forms of interactive entertainment. While I don’t necessarily agree, Trauma is the type of game that sparks this kind of discussion.
FOG Review: Wolfenstein 3D (PC, Mac, XBLA, iPhone, SNES, PSN)
“Friday Old Games” is a series of articles in which we review a game from the older generations of consoles, share why we picked it, and whether or not it holds up with time.
Back in 1992, id Software set the world (of PC gaming nerds) on fire by making the first in a new genre called “First Person Shooters”. The best part: Wolfenstein 3D was shareware, so it was not only legal, but encouraged that you give the first episode of the game to your friends.
The Death And Return of PC Gaming (For Me)
Growing up playing games exclusively on consoles, the world of PC Gaming was a complete mystery to me for a long time. I would see boxes for these strange and unknowable products at my local Walden Software, but had no idea what strange and wondrous treasures might lay inside.
As I got older and time marched on into the early 90′s, more classes at school started having computers in them. I was fascinated by them, probably because we didn’t have one at home. In junior high and high school, I would take every computer class I could get my grubby scheduling sheet on.
Sometimes in these classes, when we were really lucky, the computers would even have games on them.
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Videogame Jam of the Day Latest Podcast- Barrel Roll #150 - "I Can't Stop Playing James Brown" January 31, 2012Welcome to our one-hundred and fiftieth episode! This should probably be some sort of milestone, but instead we carry on and talk about video games as per usual. This week we are joined by Mike Bachmann, host of Fistful of Pixels and generally known as a decent sort of fellow. Topics include Dustforce, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Resident Evil: Revelation […]
