Short notice, I know, but tonight (Wednesday) the London Gamer Geeks are hosting a games quiz as part of the London Games Festival, with a host of exciting prizes and cake. We’re at our regular meeting place, downstairs at the College Arms on Store Street, and proceedings will probably kick off around 7.30 though you should [...]
Filed under: London, cake, london gamer geeks, london games festival, quiz on October 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been musing recently on the nature of courage, bravery and heroism, and their role in games and game-narrative. It’s been spurred by this photograph: Life magazine’s photograph of the week from October 1949. It was taken by an automatic camera on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, during trials of a [...]
Filed under: game design, game philosophy, narrative, personal, rpg on October 19th, 2007 | 15 Comments »
I’ve just migrated my WoW character to a new server (Nordrassil, fast becoming the hangout of choice of a certain sector of the UK’s gaming creatives, he says modestly). This is a process that costs £15 and takes, Blizzard warns you severely, five days. Not up to five days, not as long as five days, [...]
Filed under: mmorpg, world of warcraft on October 6th, 2007 | No Comments »
A couple of days later than the promised 1st October—I’ve been busy with funerals and the like—I can finally break the second part of my ARG-related news. Adrian Hon, my colleague at Six to Start, has been working with Cancer Research UK, and has launched a competition to design and run an ARG (‘alternate-reality game‘ for the slow [...]
Filed under: ARG, charity, competition on October 5th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The BAFTA nominations for the 2007 Video Games Awards came out on 25th September (I know I’m behind the times, my father died the next day, sue me). And frankly, what in the holy name of living crap is going on? The list’s here. Go and have a look at it. Anything strike you as [...]
Filed under: awards, event, fps, oh for fuck's sake on October 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »