Mass Effect

After completing Dragon Age Origins (DAO) a weekend ago, I decided to try BioWare’s other RPG – Mass Effect – just before this one too. This sci-fiction RPG was in the news in Singapore last year when it was banned from sale here for a short period of time as there was an adult make-out [...]

Gamers’ Choice – Nov 2009

The Nov 2009 issue of Gamers’ Choice has been published, with the following reviews by GET students in it:

Majesty 2 (Low Kuan Wei, GET Senior)
Supreme Ruler (Yeo Zhi Xiang, GET Freshmen)
Premier Manager 2010 (Kenny Hoe, GET Senior)
Risen (Jonathan Tiang, GET Freshmen)
Operation Flashpoint (Redha, GET Freshmen)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (James Fang, GET Senior)

I have some copies [...]

GET @ Ireland – Carlow

Two GET Senior Year students, James Fang and Zhen Ming, and two IMI students have just arrived in Institute of Technology Carlow in Ireland for their internship program. Here’s a short write-up and pictures of their first few days there.
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I was sent for overseas attachment to university of carlow in Ireland, Kilkenny. The flight here [...]

Dragon Age Origins

2009 has been a good year for PC role-playing games (CRPGs). We’ve had Drakensang and Risen so far, and Divinity II: Ego Draconis is set to be released next month. In between the first two and the latter, BioWare’s Dragon Age Origins has just been released for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Dragon Age Origins [...]

C++ Programming Poem

Kathleen Kwan, a GET Freshmen Year student and also game reviewer for Gamers’ choice, has penned a poem about C++ programming. Here is it.:)
Let’s do C plus plus,
nope, nothing to do with surplus.
Hex include iostream,
hope you’re not burning some steam.
Using namespace std,
remember your semicolon after your d.
int main brackets,
yes, those () brackets.
Open your curly brackets,
now [...]

GET Staff have moved to Block 1

If you were around in school on FRI yesterday, you might have noticed a lot of your teaching staff and workers moving boxes, furniture, metal cabinets etc. between levels 6 and 7 of Blocks 4 and 7. Basically, several departments have switched locations, and we’ve all finished moving proper as of FRI afternoon.
From this point [...]

GCA Staff Notes by Malcolm – 4

11:00-11:50 “Art of Lucasarts Singapore”
Matt Aldrich (Lucasarts)
Matt Here conducted a very dry, visual viewpoint on a few games that they have been producing at Lucasarts. He didn’t want people taking pictures and there were obvious reasons for this, some of the art was from games that hadn’t been released yet.
First up was the Xbox version [...]

Team Exalted Crown – An Ultima 7 Recreation

One of the GET Major Projects carried out this year is the recreation of the classic RPG Ultima 7. The project was intended for learning purposes, and here’s a short commentary written by one of the students involved in the project, Nicholas – a GET Senior Year student:
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“Re-creation” was the word emphasized to us as [...]

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

There aren’t a lot of video games that interest my wife, and certainly not to the point where she’ll give me the evil eye if she catches me playing the game without her! The one game that she likes a lot and has even tried her hand at has been Uncharted on the PS3.
The game [...]

GCA Staff Notes by Malcolm – 3

Part 3 of Malcolm Stuart Grant’s notes from GCA. Parts 1 and 2 were here.:)
10:00-10:50 “Games of the Future and lessons from the past”
Don Daglow (Interactive Entertainment)
Don, somewhat like Chris Taylor, had an inform style slides’n’talk. Having somewhat longer time in the industry, he had a lot to tell everyone. He wrote the first Baseball game ever [...]