We’re working on an original game that takes place in a ridiculously fake Britain of our own nefarious design. We’ve brainstormed a few names for the fake British towns and boroughs for our game map. We’d love your opinion on which of these place names you most enjoy! Rule (fake) Britannia! Keep Reading

The ‘Ceeb is talking about a study that suggests gore does not make video games more enjoyable: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/01/16/videogames.html In the case of THIS GUY (points at self with thumbs), excessive gore actually deterred a purchase of Fallout 3, the ultra-bloody sequel to a pair of games i rather enjoyed back in the day, which were [...] Keep Reading

Ian Marsh is an indie iPhone developer who sent me a redemption code to his latest game, Textropolis. He probably found me after my somewhat embarrassing nerdgasm over Wurdle, another iPhone word puzzle game that i discovered last week. i’m growing to appreciate the economy of design in many of these iPhone games: they’re lean, [...] Keep Reading

i don’t know how i could have been a gamer my whole life and missed this. i thought nothing could beat that nerdy white kid rapping in the Zelda ad, but MAN. This Pole Position spot takes the cake (and then kick’s the cake’s ASS): F*** yeah!! It’s like they distilled Real Ultimate Power, the [...] Keep Reading

As i mentioned in another post (iPhone vs. the Basement Battalion), our decreasing faith in Flash development has lead us to investigate the iPhone. Our experiments in self-publishing our own Flash games (chronicled in our ongoing and depressing Pimp My Game series) have shown that there’s too much free content online to reasonably compete. The [...] Keep Reading