PC games didn’t even start on PC. Personal Computers were meant for work, spreadsheets, word processors, number crunching, but not games. For that, before home game consoles came to be, there were the video arcades. Large stuffy halls filled with big noise boxes into which you could push a coin and play a game, usually …
Moving right along So, where were we? Oh right, the biggest living breathing crowd-funded space simulation the world has ever seen, is well on it’s way to becoming very real. The original intention was to raise between 2-4 million dollars in order to complete the development and release around the end of 2014. Well, things …
With news coming in on both Zynga and Bigpoint laying off hundreds of people, it seems that the Facebook IPO put into motion a chain of events that may end in the death of social gaming in it’s current form. It looks like the gigantic hype that made these companies and their product seem so …
I wrote a preview about it, in another language, at another place. Here I wanted to say a few more things: Squadron 42 is a very ambitious endeavour. It’s being taken on by Chris Roberts, the father (and mother) of the Wing Commander Saga – and because of that it got a very good chance …
Here are a few of the games that I look forward to: Simcity (2013)This is a big franchise that’s been around since 1989 when Maxis released the first city building game, the first Simcity. Since then there were several versions and even competitors such as Cities XL 2012 tried their hand in the metropolitan building endeavour. …