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exegi monumentum

Classical Gaming: A Roman Retrospective

Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to this nice retrospective of Roman-themed games over the years, starting with Legionnaire (1982) and ending with Rome: Total War (2004). The series of musings includes wrap ups and discussion, strengths and weaknesses. I began my academic life as a classicist with a knack for lyric poetry — while I hopped ship to history (East Asian at that), I still have many reminders hanging around of those halcyon days spent with Horace and Livy. A nostalgic look back at how and why these classically-themed games have succeeded (or not) is a welcome reminder of many games I played as a youngster: More »

3:30 PM on Sun May 11 2008
By mgreene
1,785 views, 19 comments

Latest by Bakeroo: O tempora, o mores. more »

retrospective

Perhaps The World's Only Kingpin Retrospective

Ever raved to strangers about a game they've never heard of? I have! About Kingpin. Yeah, I don't know what it was about it...it was a good shooter, but there were better shooters, it was violent, but there were more violent games...something (probably the Cypress Hill - who did the soundtrack and some of the thug's voice-acting - connection) just clicked with me, and as a bored 19 year-old uni student I played the shit out of it. So you can see why I blew a good 10 minutes on the weekend reading this excellent retrospective on the game. Why's it excellent? Because long-winded look-backs on obscure, yet heart-warming old games are always excellent.
Retro: Kingpin: Life Of Crime [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

4:00 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Luke Plunkett
3,086 views, 45 comments

Latest by Shinryoma: I remember Kingpin. more »

bioware

A Look Back At Jade Empire

The folks at Computer and Video Games recently interviewed Jade Empire's senior producer, Diarmid Clarke about the process of making the game, the ideas behind it and it's translation from the Xbox to the PC. I very much enjoyed Jade Empire and often a game with a very different look and feel over other games will attract my attention more than the latest, most awesome, deserted space wasteland shoot em up game. The gameplay mechanic may have been a titch stale, but the story, missions and beautiful surroundings more than made up for it in my opinion. More »

3:00 PM on Sun Jun 10 2007
By fdemarco
2,350 views, 35 comments

Latest by ablemancain: @stranger: Still think getting western actors to VO Chinese/Japanese characters is about the most nonsensical design choice one could make. Anime style characters getting the western VO treatment is one thing, but having Brian Doyle Murray playing a Chinese character more »

castlevania

IGN's Castlevania Retrospective

In honor of Castlevania's 20th anniversary, IGN has put together quite an extensive retrospective of the uber popular side scrolling, vampire slaying adventure. The 10 page history takes us from the early days of Castlevania's 8-bit glory on the NES, through it's long, rocky history on multiple platforms and leaves us with the authors hope's and dreams for Castlevanias of the future. This is quite a hefty and well written article, so if you're looking for some good weekend reading about the vampire franchise that refuses to die, this is the story for you. Flynn De Marco More »

11:00 AM on Sat Jan 20 2007
By fdemarco
348 views, 8 comments

Latest by coalhalo: Another sophomoric piece from an overly biased IGN writer. It might be a good introduction for someone who is unfamiliar with the Castlevania series, but the writer's unabashed bias taints the article with too much opinion rather than factual reporting. more »

e3

The E3s That Were

Miss E3? The stench of fan boy putrescence. The disco lights. The jiggly girls with contempt in their eyes and fake smiles carved into their waxy faces. Hey, who doesn't? So why not hope turn on the flux capacitor and take an 88mph drive through E3's of years past, thanks to this Games Radar summary of every E3... ever! More »

12:40 PM on Fri Aug 11 2006
By brownlee
152 views, 5 comments