Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

Mar 02 2009

Endless Ocean

Years ago I played the game Sub Culture, a game where you piloted a submarine through the ocean scavenging for things to sell or possibly shooting at underwater pirates. There was probably some kind of story line you could follow but I skipped that. I spent all my time exploring and taking in […]

Feb 13 2009

Wii Fit

I’ve been using the Wii Fit for almost two months now, and my opinion has changed slightly. Its still a pretty good workout tool, and until spring comes round and the weather changes to where its tolerable to do things outside I’ll still be using it regularly. I’ll probably keep using even while […]

Jan 12 2009

Game development trends

A year or so ago I made a few comments about the learning curve for gaming. Saying that the complexity level of current games makes it difficult for new players to learn to play well before getting frustrated. Anyone who is a gamer now probably learned on simpler games and slowly built up […]

Jan 09 2009

Games simulating real skills

The other day I stumbled across this news article of a 6 year old boy driving his parents car to work. Obviously its a pretty strange scenario; when I was that young if I took my parents car I probably wouldn’t have gone to school, this kid is clearly dedicated to his education. […]

Jan 07 2009

Wrath of the Lich King

I’ve finally trudged through a bunch of content in the latest Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King. They have changed the formula from the previous expansion a bit, but the core is definitely the same. A lot of the same things from the last expansion were done again this time around.

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