Ego-Blogging
IGN: Multiwinia Review My multiwinia review goes up; can understand how some people enjoy it, buy I’m personally unlikely to go back to the game; too shallow and unfair for someone who loves complexity and justice. 馃檪
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Dreamlords, Yawn
Dreamlords: The Reawakening Review – Page 1 // MMO /// Eurogamer – Games Reviews, News and More Last night, I travelled home angry. I nicked a seat on the tube, I bullied stumblebums out of my way; I was generally a bundle of passive-aggressive geekery. Why? Not because my day had been bad or because
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How StarCraft Beat Chess
Eurogamer Front Page 02/07/08, originally uploaded by Hot Grill. Look, I just wanted to use a Wired-style complete hyperbollicks title, okay? God, I hate forumites. Anyway, my big interview with the creators of StarCraft is online over at Eurogamer, finally. Childhood ambition complete (tick!) Eurogamer Front Page 02/07/08
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Good Critique of Modern Games
Lookspring 禄 Ralph Baer changed my Powerpoint Margaret Robertson’s powerpoint show from NGLD is a good basic summary of the challenges facing modern game developers – she’s actually bothered to think rather than throwing her hands up in disgust and shame like so many of us (me included).
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41st Least Hideous: Games Journalist
Oh, the pride. I’m the 41st least hideous person in the games industry. Out of 50. Eesh.
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Ego-Blogging
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar Re-review // MMO /// Eurogamer LOTRO looks absolutely, astoundingly right. Characters look correct, the world is beautifully crafted and enemies match the best drawings that the Tolkien Legendarium has attracted in sixty years. The Shire looks as good as the movies, Bree (though bigger than we
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Identity Crisis.
For any users of Skype out there, my username is Griliopoulos. Duh. For MSN, it’s iddleyiddle at hotmail.com. For Google Talk it’s daniel.griliopoulos at gmail.com. On Xbox Live I’m OXM Grill (but email me first, as my list is always full.) On Lord of the Rings Online, I’m on Snowbourn and my name’s Warslow Wobbleguts.
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Achievements Quandary
Xbox 360 achievements let you get points that total up to mean exactly nothing. Hence, I feel no obligation to play games for achievements and even feel a little disgusted with myself for playing games with achievements. Hence, I don’t want to play Xbox 360 games. However… I also get a feeling whenever I’m playing
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Armchair Generals
Gameplayer – Australia’s Premier Gaming WebsiteFeature: The Armchair Generals – Official Xbox 360 Magazine It’s no fun being the odd one out. As the only team member with an attention span counted in hours rather than seconds, I’m regularly taunted in the office for loving PC strategy games. The other team members treat me as