Something I’ve been wondering about lately is the idea of accumulated deaths. I’ve been playing videogames since I was about 8 years old. The earliest one I can recall is a BASIC program called Hunt the Wumpus, which ran on an Osbourne 1 my dad had brought home to work on. Spanning this 26-odd years [...]
Some tidbits and updates have bubbled up from the just-finished PlayStation Day event put on by SCEE, across the pond in Yurop-land. Most of these are shamelessly cribbed from the rolling Eurogamer liveblog, which is always my choice for such things because their writers are an amusing combination of bored and British. the games shown [...]
Another new IP from the reformed Electronic Arts: Mirror’s Edge. They previewed this game recently for a small gaggle of the usual gaming press suspects. Earnest Cavalli at Game|Life has a good write-up. The concept is parkour again, like Assassin’s Creed but faster-more-intense. Also the game has a refreshingly modern/near-future setting, something of a rarity [...]
