I like XBOX Live Arcade games: Trials HD

Those who’ve heard me rant about gameplay know that I get bored quickly with games these days. That’s one reason I’m so attracted to “casual games”.

As wise men have said in the past, a quality game relies on a small number of gameplay ‘hooks’ that are repeated through the experience. The problem is that very few hooks are good enough to keep my interest for so long. BUT… a casual game doesn’t have such lofty goals. It doesn’t try to pretend that it’s something it’s not. Usually, the type of stuff you find on XBOX Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and, I guess, Nintendo’s WiiWare delivery system (whatever they call it) has one good idea and no one expects anything different. With that sort of expectation, the developers can really polish their idea without trying to stretch it well beyond its means.

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Huxgate London The Dystopia

Am I right?

Scribblefail: How to suck at scribblenauts

So, on Kotaku Stephen Totilo was given an advanced copy of Scribblenauts, and he wrote a little article about one of his experiences. This is odd; while Kotaku receives pretty much every game they rarely review or talk about them. Way to raise the bar Stephen, you’ve raised the quality of Kotaku from OK! Magazine to US Weekly.
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Podcasts Back Up

So I posted on my blog, like anyone reads that thing, that our podPress plugin broke images on our site. We’ve replaced it with the Podcasting plugin, but unfortunately it’s not as good. Anyway, the podcasts are working now.

We do have an episode 8 I haven’t posted, I’m not sure whether to keep that one in my hat or just put it out there. Cory’s mic sounds like shit.