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! [poll id="2"] 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 free of [...] 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: [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] Keep Reading