Geoguessr
This thing uses Google Maps Street View to create a game where you try to guess where in the world you’ve been dropped. Then you get a score.
Monaco
…has anyone played it? I feel like I’ve been hearing about it for ages, but I completely missed its release last week. It’s only out for PC now, but it’s coming for Mac and XBL. It seems like at least some of you would be into it – nifty throwback graphics, 4-player co-op, class-based, etc. I’m intrigued!
The Other Brothers!
An iOS game I kickstarted (that failed to meet funding) that looks suuuper awesome just came out (despite the aforementioned failed funding).
TouchArcade Plays Star Command
They’ve finally sent out preview copies and submitted to the App store.
BioShock Infinite And The Future Of Gaming.
NPR’s onPoint discusses what is apparently the Citizen Kane of video games.
World Wide Maze.
Yeah, just… yeah. Wow. Not sure if this counts as Google’s first real game, but it’s super impressive.
League of Legends
Soooo Trish, Paris, and I (and Ryan soon?) have been playing the hell out of this game League of Legends, which has been around for years but only just released a mac client. It’s sort of a Warcraft 3/Diablo 2 meets Team Fortress 2 style game, where you are on a team of 3 or five with a top-down point-and-click interface where you pick a guy who has 4 main abilities and duke it out with another team in a capture-the-flag style battle.
It’s…. Really…. REALLY…. good. You should check it out: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/
It’s a free game, which is nice, and they surprisingly do NOT beat you over the head with microtransactiony bullshit or punish you for not spending money.
If anyone’s interested, friend me. My char name is Blue Kalyx.
What's your opinion of FTL?
Still waiting for Star Command to come out and looking for some other space management game to fill my time.
So, have you guys played FTL? What do you think?
Indie Games
So Netflix has a pretty good documentary called Indie Game: The Movie. I highly recommend it. It’s a pretty entertaining look at the lives of a few indie game developers as they go through the motions of developing and or releasing out their games.
The two games followed and sort of contrasted in the doc are Super Meat Boy and Fez, both of which I’d been aware of but never paid much attention to when they were released. After watching the doc, I finally went and bought both games and man, they are so good. So so good.
You guys
I have finally started playing Left 4 Dead (2) on PC. I am basically awful, despite my rich history of playing the first one on the Ecks Boks Three Sixty a lot. I beseech you to be my Steam Fraaaaaand and help me get better at PC FPS games after a twelve year hiatus. On the Steamz, I am called “silentkit” and I am awful.
[This message will self destruct or whatever maybe sometime.]
Hugs!
-tricia, like from high school
interesting new console idea
I love the way to get it too. Make a downpayment to get the thing built. They made enough money in half a day
Perspective
Neat-ass game combines 2D and 3D elements. Also, the little dude jumps like mega man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS4r9Fq3beU&feature=player_embedded#!
Dude has been playing the same game of Civ II for a decade.
Apparently, it’s now 3991 AD and “the world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation.”
The greatest hacking game ever made, Uplink, has been ported to the iPad.
It’s perfect in that it’s the best balance of what hacking is really like vs what the movies portray it to be. The end result is a game that feels incredibly real and addictive, but is more exciting than guessing passwords.
Diablo 3.
Sam, Paris, Trish (Trash), and I all spent a pretty good deal of time playing Diablo 3 tonight.
It is a good game. It mostly involves a lot of clicking and then feeling intensely rewarded when things pop out of the stuff you clicked on. You pick them up and wear them, or share them, or sell them to buy new things, or melt them to make new things, or you just don’t pick them up cause you don’t have any more room to put any more things. My guy carries a bubble around like an idiot. But it’s cool, he has a wizard hat.
…I guess I kinda thought I was going to have more to say about it. It’s fun to play games with your friends. If you are also playing Diablo 3, you should post your username in the comments. We’ll click our mouses on stuff and pick up the things that pop out.
SimCity
Don’t know if any of you guys are fans, but the new SimCity sounds like it could be fantastic
Rayman Legends for Wii U
I won’t buy this system until I am conviced there’s serious 3rd party support but this trailer for Rayman Legends looks pretty awesome!
Bit Brigade.
Filling the whole in my heart left in The Advantage’s 6 year absense, Bit Brigade not only covers whole NES soundtracks, but does so while some dude beats the game from start to finish. I’m so in love with this.
Wil Wheaton's Table Top premiers.
A video podcast wherein Wil Wheaton and his famous geek friends (Grant Imahara!) play board games. First episode is the fantastic Smallworld (which is also available on iPad, for those of you with a lack of geeky friends to join you).
BrowserQuest.
A free classic, Zelda-style MMORPG that runs in your browser. Would anyone be interested in my spinning up a Scrabbled server for it?
A kickstarter for Wasteland 2.
Wasteland was Fallout before Fallout was Fallout. Literally. They lost the rights to the name, so they called the next iteration Fallout. Very pumped to see this sequel get made.