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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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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 5: “Fran Bow” (PC)
Classic point-and-click adventure games tend to say little but with many words, even with indies. But Swedish developer Killmonday Games‘ Fran Bow shows that the genre can still tell great stories for a mature audience without compromising puzzle design. What … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure game, Alice in Wonderland, blood, Chains of Satinav, children's book, Dali, Day of the Tentacle, death, dream, DRM-free, fantasy, fiction, Fran Bow, Frogger, GOG, Good Old Games, illusion, insanity, Killmonday Games, Lewis Carroll, life, literature, nightmare, PC, Picasso, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, reality, Sanitarium, sanity, Steam, storytelling, The Cat Lady, The Dark Eye, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, The Longest Journey, Tim Burton, time-travel, violence, Wadjet Eye Games
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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 4: “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition” (PC)
Remakes are difficult to do, especially when it comes to gaming. So does Pinkerton Road’s Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition have enough new content and stay true to the original point-and-click adventure, while also being … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure game, Angel Heart, Anniversary Edition, cinema, cinematic, classic gaming, DRM-free, fiction, Gabriel Knight, GOG, Good Old Games, history, horror, Jane Jensen, mature, mystery, Phoenix Online Studios, Pinkerton Road, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, remake, Sierra, Sierra On-Line, Sins of the Father, storytelling, thriller, Voodoo
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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 1: “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers” (PC)
Halloween is over, but our gaming special week is just about to begin. If you’re wondering what happened to the counting method of 2013 (as Costume Quest being Day 8), just remember that this wasn’t really the eighth day of … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure game, Angel Heart, cinema, cinematic, classic gaming, DRM-free, fiction, Gabriel Knight, GOG, Good Old Games, Heavy Rain, history, horror, Jane Jensen, King’s Quest VI, Life is Strange, LucasArts, Mark Hamill, mature, Michael Dorn, mystery, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sierra, Sierra On-Line, Sins of the Father, Star Trek, Star Wars, storytelling, The Walking Dead, thriller, Tim Curry, Voodoo
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Movie trailers: “Goosebumps”
With Halloween approaching soon and the days becoming darker, it’s high time for some spooky but also funny movies like Rob Letterman’s Goosebumps. Based on the original scary children books by R.L. Stine, the creatures of his imagination come alive … Continue reading
Posted in Movie trailers, Movies
Tagged 3D, bloody, books, cinema, comedy, fiction, garden gnome, gnome, Goosebumps, gory, Halloween, horror, Jack Black, movie, novel, pop out, R.L. Stine, Rob Letterman, uncanny
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Emotional Multimedia Ride 