Links

Friday, July 17th, 2009 | Console, Nick, PC, RPG, Uncategorized, Video, blogging, games, geekdom | Comments Off

I’ve been collecting links but had no time to post them. So here you go!

Regular readers know that Sophie and I are pretty excited about upcoming PC/console RPG Dragon Age and may have even picked up that we’re both planning on playing it on the Xbox 360. Good news for us then because the Kotaku writers have had some time with the 360 version and say the controls work fine!
There was also an interesting interview with video game designer Tim Schafer about the need for games to expand their subject matter beyond sci-fi and fantasy if the medium is going to grow larger. I could give a fuck about it getting bigger, but he’s probably not wrong.
Finally, magicians Penn & Teller have dedicated an episode of their show Bullshit! to violent video games – pretty funny stuff.

I need to read a video game blog other than Kotaku. Any suggestions?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | Console, Nick, PC, RPG, Video, games | Comments Off

I’m on a Kotaku link buzz here, but these were interesting.

First up is how uber-CRPG designer Chris Avellone hates CRPGs and their clichés.

Second up is how horses change the design of CRPGs and why Dragon Age won’t have any.

Both of these are reasons that as long as I’ve got friends and dice, I’ll keep playing table top games.

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