Meet the Sandvich

Watch it

I can’t get the embed to work, no matter how i tried, it doesn’t work. But what I got to say is that it’s epic. Totally epic.
For those that does not know what epic means, it basically means something that is cool or awesome. I, for one, was a big fan of Valve’s “Meet [...]

Game Review: Tales of Eternia (PSP)

While on the topic of Tales of Eternia, a remake of the old Tales of Destiny II for the US version in the PS1, let me say something. There is one thing I hate in this world, and those things are called “Remakes”.
Usually, game creators have the basic idea of “Its popular, it’s worth my [...]

First Impressions: Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

While it will take me about another year before singing praises of utter fanboyness with tears flooding out of my eyes at the mere mention of Chrono Cross, I will do a partial review on another game that I was looking forward to after getting my PSP.
Yes, I do have a PSP, in fact, I [...]

Gaming and Society

Here’s an informative perspective on the current issues of gaming, society and demography. Yep it sounds suspisciously like a certain lecture topic in Introduction to Computer Games (INCG), and especially if you had to write an essay on it. Even if not, it’s still a useful summative write-up on the current issues; including who social [...]

Show Me The Money (Gold)!

Ai-blog.net has a pretty interesting critique on an especially relevant aspect of AI, specifically pathfinding. Yep the bug bear that torments many a game designer and frustrates players when it’s not done properly.
Folks in GET Junior Year will know that they’ll be covering pathfinding soon enough in the syllabus. The article’s very well illustrated with [...]

Darkthrone (MMORPG)

I don’t think many people have heard of the MMORPG ‘Darkthrone’. it is an online game where u go to the page and sign up and you can play it already. its not like some games such as maple where you have to download patches to play it. anyways, ‘Darkthrone’ (www.darkthrone.com), is basically a strategic game [...]

Game Review Clichés

If you’ve spend any measure of time reading game reviews, or more likely there’s a workshop series you’ll need to be attempting soon as a GET student, you would have seen phrases like “”An evolution, not a revolution”, “Snap-the-controller-in-half frustration” etc.
Well, on that, those terms really mean:
“2. Snap-the-controller-in-half frustration - You won’t actually feel this [...]

Lessons in GTA IV

The GTA IV Education review has been posted into the Game Reviews by Students & Staff last week here. But here’s an alternative take on the lessons GTA IV can impart, courtesy of Strategy Informer. One excerpt below:
1. Family Comes First

From the moment hero Niko Bellic steps off the boat, he backs up and protects [...]

Writing game reviews

There’s a short course/workshop on writing game reviews that’s already taken by some of the current senior GET students. For the GET students in the second year now, this course will be coming along soon enough. Do bookmark the link below till then—it provides pretty useful information on how to go about writing those reviews.
How [...]

RRODs

The typical GET student will be all too familiar with the Red Ring of Death, or the RROD, even if he doesn’t own an XBox360 personally. How’s that? Well, the XBox360 in the game club is very red and dead from exactly this fault.
So here’s a bit of news about the RROD, as reported by Mirror.co.uk on how much [...]