Our Team Fortress 2 server is up. Point to tf.ptdmagazine.com to join.All racing games are, ultimately, the same. Drive a route quickly. There are no surprises and very little originality, and then there’s Bus Driver,
More akin to a flight simulator than a racing game, Bus Driver sees you driving a bus across…
Some games require a huge buy-in. You need to invest a lot of time learning the system, understanding the interface and reading the documentation over and over. The problem with this, of course, is that the payoff may not be…
Carriers at War is the latest in a series of remakes of classic SSG turn-based wargames. For those of us addicted to turn-based wargames, SSG is the Pablo Escobar of the game industry, known for some of the most famous games…
I never wanted to be a rock star. I always knew that the life of sex, drugs and concert tours could be gained only though many years of practice and obscurity and maybe a little soul selling. Kudos: Rock Legend makes…
The term “casual game” doesn’t have a lot of intrinsic meaning. It’s really a marketing term onto which a lot of contradictory expectations are heaped. Casual games are games that you can download quickly. They appeal to career women. They’re…
Games can be laboratories, controlled environments to test a range of potential outcomes. The Serious Games movement is premised on the idea that games can be compelling teaching tools beyond the “simulation environment.”
Those of us old enough to remember arcade shooters probably don’t think about them often. They were a way station on the path to games with greater depth and less RSI. A good shooter was basically anything that had hordes…
“Why, you’re beautiful, Miss Carrilou!” Those were the words I kept hoping Dr. Willoughby would utter to his traveling companion, kicking off a sequence of events ending in a May-September scandal. Willoughby would lose his seat at Oxford, and they…
As our regulars know, I’m a big fan of tycoon games. Be it theme parks, wildlife, or railroads, the thought of a long session of financial micromanagement makes my heart beat a little faster. Because of this, I walked into…
Kingdom Elemental looks like a tactical combat game in a fantasy setting. You fight your way through round after round of bad guys with soldiers you buy with a pile of gold. Win a battle and you can unlock new powers…
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy
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