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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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Indie adventures: “Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today” (PC)
Dystopian ideas in literature or movies aren’t new, and even games have used these concepts for a long time. So does Fictiorama Studios’ point-and-click adventure Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today offer anything memorable? Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (PC) (Spain … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure, adventure game, Amazon, art, blood, comic, comic book, Daedalic Entertainment, Dead Synchronicity, Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today, digital, disease, DRM-free, dystopia, dystopian, dystopian novel, Expressionism, Fictiorama Studios, GOG, Good Old Games, gore, H.G. Wells, indie, indie games, novel, PC, Philip K. Dick, poetic, point-and-click adventure, police brutality, prostitution, puzzles, rape, Ray Bradbury, retail, soundtrack, Steam, storytelling, suicide, time, violence, visions, visual novel
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GOG release: “Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut”
It’s been a long time since Nintendo DS games featured difficult platforming games, but with WayForward Technologies‘ Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut, PC gamers finally get the chance to experience the second game in the series DRM-free on GOG. … Continue reading
Posted in Game release news, Gaming
Tagged 2D, 2D pixel art, art, classic gaming, DRM-free, DS, DSi, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, GOG, Good Old Games, HD, Jump & Run, Metroidvania, Nintendo, PC, pixel, platformer, promo, sale, Shantae, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut, Steam, stream, StreamTeam Selection, Twitch, WayForward Technologies, weekend promo, YouTube
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Theme parks: Dismaland
Theme parks are a great way to escape reality, but what happens if that everyday reality is part of the experience, like in Banksy’s Dismaland? It’s a kind of fake magic I’m a big fan of theme parks, so the … Continue reading
Posted in Theme Parks
Tagged art, Banksy, cinderella, Dismaland, Disney, Disneyland, exhibition, Ladi Di, little mermaid, modern, social commentary, Theme Park
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Emotional Multimedia Ride 
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 →