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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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Star Wars games: “Republic Commando” (PC)
Even if the first prequel movies of George Lucas were disappointing (see the individual reviews for Episode I and Episode II), the idea of the Clone Wars and its warriors opened up all kinds of narrative possibilities. LucasArts’ squad-based FPS … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged action, AI, Attack of the Clones, classic, Clone Wars, Dark Forces, Delta Squad, Delta-38, Disney, DRM-free, Episode I, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, first-person-shooter, FPS, George Lucas, GOG, Good Old Games, Kashyyyk, LucasArts, PC, Republic, Republic Commando, sci-fi, separatists, Star Wars, Steam, storytelling, strategy, The Phantom Menace, wookiee, Xbox
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Star Wars games: “Dark Forces” (PC)
First-person-shooters have come a long way since the groundbreaking Doom, so does LucasArts’ Star Wars take on the genre with Dark Forces still stand the test of time and improve on the FPS formula? Star Wars: Dark Forces (PC) (USA … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged action, Amazon, Boba Fett, CGI, Coruscant, Dark Forces, Dark Troopers, Disney, Doom, DOSBox, first-person-shooter, FPS, GOG, Good Old Games, Jabba the Hutt, Jedi Knight, John Williams, Kyle Katarn, LucasArts, PC, platforming, Playstation, PS1, Republic, Rogue Squadron 3D, sci-fi, Star Wars, Steam, stormtrooper
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Star Wars games: “Rogue Squadron 3D” (PC)
Have you ever wondered why a bestselling console title didn’t have the same impact on PC? Factor 5’s and LucasArts’ collaborative arcade action game Rogue Squadron might have been great for the N64, but Rogue Squadron 3D isn’t remembered that … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged action, Alliance, arcade, AT-AT, Bespin, Chewbacca, classic, console, Disney, DRM-free, Empire, Factor 5, GOG, Good Old Games, Han Solo, Jedi Knight, John Williams, LucasArts, Luke Skywalker, N64, PC, Rebel Assault, Rebellion, Rogue Squadron, Rogue Squadron 3D, sci-fi, Star Wars, Steam, storytelling, Tatooine, TIE Fighter, X-Wing
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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 →