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Psychonauts

I’ve mentioned it before, but Psychonauts is a really really good game, and absolutely everyone in the universe should get it. (And Yahtzee agrees.)
Oh, and it’s now on sale via Steam’s Midweek Madness for US$2. So anyone who doesn’t get it is crazy. (Or already has it, or didn’t see it in [...]

Sam & Max

I’ve been meaning to post something about the Sam & Max games for quite a while now, but never seemed to quite get around to it. But I’ve recently been reminded of it, as I just received word of some great deals available briefly. So let’s get the advertising spiel out of the [...]

Steam Weekend Deal: Orange Box

I’m not going to make a habit of announcing these, but this one is just too big to pass up a comment on.
As you may or may not know, for a while now Steam have been running weekend deals, wherein each weekend they will offer a game (or sometimes a game bundle) at an extreme [...]

Prince of Persia

One of the games that I played over the holiday period was Prince of Persia (PC, Amazon) (the 2008 one, not the 1990ish classic).
Let me get the obvious stuff out of the way first: yes, it was dumb to re-use the name; yes, it’s a “reset” of the franchise (and an attempt to start a [...]

Spore!

That is all.

The Experiment

The Experiment (Amazon, GP NZ) comes from Lexis Numérique, a French developer. The name of the game (used for the US, Aussie, and NZ release) is oddly generic, and I wonder why it was chosen — especially since the original name was “eXperience112″, which has a much more interesting sound to it.
The game [...]

Summer of Gaming

So, it’s been a couple of months since my last games-related post, and while I know that most likely nobody really cares what I think, I somehow still feel the need to waffle on aimlessly about the games I’ve been playing recently. I knew getting a blog was a bad idea.

First up, once again, [...]

Portals of Fun

(This is all spoiler-free, so don’t worry if you haven’t played these yet.)
First off, to follow up on my first Games post: Overlord was lots of fun, and definitely worth playing. I did end up playing through both evil and goodslightly-less-evil paths, and had fun with both (although the evil path seems a little [...]

Hospi-fatality

This is a bit of a followup to my last post
Anyway, I was looking around for some videos from Overlord, and discovered that Codemasters were also publishing another game, called Hospital Tycoon.
Now, I tend to stay away from the “Tycoon”-named games (though I loved Transport Tycoon), since most of them seem to lack [...]

It’s good to be bad

I seem to be having a run of “bad guy” games lately
I recently finished playing Jade Empire (Amazon, GP NZ) [though I actually bought it on Steam]. My first playthrough was Open Hand, as usual (I tend to play the good guy first). I’ve just started a new run playing as Closed Fist. Haven’t gotten [...]

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