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The Best Game Developer Ever

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Having played the superb Batman: Arkham Asylum through to completion recently, I couldn’t help but wonder: Why can’t all games be like this? (more…)

By Simon Jones, 13 years ago
Games

Annoying things in games: Part 2

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In an attempt to inject some variety into this website and slightly dilute the over-excited Left 4 Dead coverage, here’s another round-up of game design grumbles. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 14 years ago
Games

First glance: World of Goo

The much-heralded World of Goo arrived on Steam yesterday and, as tends to be the case with me and quirky indie games, I simply couldn’t resist. Could it possibly live up to expectations? (more…)

By Simon Jones, 14 years ago
Games

Today’s top 10

PC Gamer recently released the yearly update to their Top 100 Games of All Time list and have also set up a rather intriguing bit of democracy in the form of a public all-time voting system. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago
Games

Darwinia reviewed

Note: This is an old review of Darwinia that I wrote for SFFworld.com back in 2006. As this week is more-or-less Introversion week, I thought it timely to reprint it here… (more…)

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago
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