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Blogging 2015 overview
It took some time, but I finally managed to compile a list of all the articles I wrote last year. These were 223 in total, a big step up from 2014’s 76, 2013’s 120, or the humble beginnings of 77 … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Book reviews, Books, Funny videos, Game features, Game news, Game release news, Game reviews, Game trailers, Gaming, Movie reviews, Movie trailers, Movies, News, Theme Parks
Tagged 2015, 80 Days, A Fistful of Gun, A Golden Wake, adventure, Afterlife, Al-Qadim: The Genie’s Curse, Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space, Android, Anna's Quest, Apotheon, Armello, Armikrog, art, Atari, Bethesda Softworks, Big Fall Sale, Big Winter Sale, Bio Menace, Blackwell Convergence, Blackwell Unbound, blog, Blogging, Blood of the Damned, Brawlers, Broken Age, Broken Age – Act 2, Card City Nights, censorship, Chantelise: A Tale of Two Sisters, contest, creative writing, D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die – Season One, Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition, Dead Synchronicity, Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today, DLC, Double Dragon Trilogy, Double Insomnia Sale, Dreamfall Chapters – Book 2: Rebels, DRM-free, DRM-free Valentines, Dropsy, Dungeons 2: A Game of Winter, Else Heart.Break(), Excel, fan, fiction, Fire, Forgotten Realms, Fran Bow, free game, Future Sack, Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition, Game of Thrones – Episode 3: The Sword in the Darkness, Games, gaming, GOG, Good Old Games, Grandia II: Anniversary Edition, Grim fan art, Grim Fandango Remastered, Groupees, Halloween, Halloween Monster Hunt, Hard West, Her Story, Hot Tin Roof – The Cat That Wore A Fedora, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Human Resource Machine, Humble Bundle, Humble Weekly Bundle, Impossible Creatures, Indie Piñata, iOS, Kholat, Life is Strange – Episode 2, Little Big Adventure – Enhanced Edition, Lovecraftian Bundle, LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Minecraft: Story Mode – Ep. 1: The Order of the Stone, Mini Metro, Moebius: Empire Rising, Monochromatic, Morning Star – Descent to Deadrock, Mount & Blade, Mushroom 11, Never Alone – Arctic Collection, Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, Only on GOG Sale, Ori and the Blind Forest, PC, Pillars of Eternity, Pokémon Rumble World, Pokémon Shuffle, Quake, QuestRun, Randal’s Monday, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Read Only Memories, Rebellion, Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, Remute’s Does Time Really Exist? Bundle, review, REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR, Rockfest, sale, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut, Silver Bullets Sale, Solar Shifter EX, SOMA, SQUIDS Odyssey, Star Wars, Starship Titanic, STASIS, Sublevel Zero, Sunless Sea, Supreme League of Patriots, Syberia, System Shock, Technobabylon, Telltale Games, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, The Blackwell Deception, The Blackwell Epiphany, The Blackwell Legacy, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, The Last Express, The Moment of Silence, The Samaritan Paradox, The Shivah: Kosher Edition, The Void, The Witcher, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher Adventure game, Timeless Adventures, Toonstruck, Valentine, Valhalla Hills, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut, weekend promo, White Night, Wolfenstein, World of Goo, writing
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Adventures made in Germany: “The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles” (PC)
Prequels to games aren’t as common as in the movie industry, but this doesn’t mean that they’re inferior to the original, as KING Art Games’ point-and-clicker The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles shows. The Book of Unwritten Tales: … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure, adventure game, Alien, animal cruelty, antagonist, artwork, classic, comedy, comic, Critter, DRM-free, epic, Escher, fantasy, GOG, Good Old Games, headhunter, humor, KING Art Games, LucasArts, Munkus, Nate, Nate Bonnet, Nordic Games, Northlands, PC, penguins, point-and-click adventure, prequel, puzzles, RPG, Seastone, slapstick, Star Wars, Steam, storytelling, Telltale Games, The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Book of Unwritten Tales: THe Critter Chronicles, The Critter Chronicles, Yeti
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Adventures made in Germany: “The Book of Unwritten Tales” (PC)
There is always a fine line between subtle references to well-established genres, books, movies or other media, and obvious parodies trying too hard to be funny and only ending up rather tame in humor. The German sense of humor is … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure, adventure game, adventurer, Alliance, Aventasia, Baldur's Gate, classic, comedy, comic, Critter, dance game, DRM-free, dwarf, elf, fantasy, folklore, funny, GOG, Good Old Games, Gremlin, humor, Ivo, Ivodora Eleonora Clarissa, KING Art Games, lore, LucasArts, magician, mini game, Monkey Island, Mortimer McGuffin, Mother, Nate, Nathaniel Bonnet, Nordic Games, NPC, online RPG, parody, PC, point-and-click adventure, prejudice, princess, puzzles, quest, rhythm game, rhythm-action, RPG, slapstick, Steam, storytelling, Terry Pratchett, The Book of Unwritten Tales, Tolkien, Voodoo, voodoo doll, Wilbur, Wilbur Weathervane, Zorro
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Happy New Year with GOG and Interplay sale
Happy New Year to all! While last year’s last blog entry was reserved for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, this year’s first is gaming-related again. But there’s also some sci-fi movie love to be found in GOG’s … Continue reading
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Adventures made in Germany: “The Book of Unwritten Tales 2” (PC)
Does KING Art Games’ Kickstarter-funded adventure game The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 tread new ground in the point-and-click genre or is it just another succession of mildly amusing scenes and good puzzles? The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (PC) … Continue reading →