Archive for April, 2013

#608 Ridge Racer

Posted: 28th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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235th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: PSP Year of Release:ย  2004 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco There’s several games in this series, with two others sharing the title, and one (the 1993 edition) being on the list for future play as well. I guess that means it’s a notable, good racing game, but I’ll be […]

#636 Darwinia

Posted: 24th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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234th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Introversion Software Publisher: Introversion Software Some time ago – about two years by now, in fact – we covered a lovely game called Uplink. Interesting in its own way, it was a hacking simulation, in a way that felt like it emphasised […]

#532 Eve Online

Posted: 20th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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233rd played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: CCP Games Publisher: CCP Games Eve Online is an odd game. As I mentioned, I often speak with people who know a thing or two about video games, and today the subject of Eve Online happened to come up. An article about […]

#489 Runescape

Posted: 16th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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232nd played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Jagex Games Studio Publisher: Jagex Games Studio ย This MMORPG is a bit of a different one. Probably one of the first of free to play, later taken on by smaller and larger MMORPGs including even World of Warcraft – a fact we’ve […]

#216 Alone In The Dark

Posted: 12th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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231st played so far Genre: Survival Horror Platform: Various Year of Release: 1992 Developer: Infogrames Publisher: Infogrames Now here’s a game that I vaguely remember. Not as much playing it personally, but I had a friend who had this game and played through it quite a bit. There was shooting and there were zombies and […]

#562 Planetside

Posted: 8th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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230th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Sony Online Entertainment Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment Here’s a novelty. Rather than an MMORPG, we’ve got an MMOFPS. It’s like an MMORPG, but you run around shooters and such. But wait, you ask, most FPS games have a multiplayer component, co-op […]

#900 Aion: The Tower of Eternity

Posted: 4th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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229th played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Aion Team Development Dept Publisher: NCSoft ย We’ve already covered several of MMORPG publisher NCSoft’s games in the past, with our first MMORPG Guild Wars and more recently the ill-fated City of Heroes. As that last game partially inspired our drive to complete […]