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Some Suggestions for GOG.com, If They’ll Have More Such Sales

GOG.com‘s Fall Insomnia Sale, which started Wednesday, was quite clearly a marketing success, but it also generated a fair amount of frustration for plenty of people and I dare say that it also lasted too long, and that’s even without taking the fact that this third “round” is going slowly and may even continue for […]

Hackers "Killed" The Adrenaline Vault

I have mentioned before that my main little “project” on MobyGames this year was to submit the reviews from The Adrenaline Vault as mobyranks, starting with the oldest and going through the list. We’re talking about a review site founded in 1995 which was still active, even if more recently as a “gaming blog”, which […]

Kerrigan

After the release of Heart of the Swarm, I looked for the cinematics and eventually even started watching a complete playthrough, to see what else is there, largely ignoring the actual missions and only looking for any other dialogs and cutscenes that may add to Kerrigan‘s character development. While otherwise the story they wrapped around […]

The Elder Scrolls Online – Another Early Trailer of the Year? Also, Beta Access!

If you haven’t already, have a look at the latest trailer for Elder Scrolls Online and then try to imagine what will it take to top that this year. I for one keep wondering whether certain scenes, particularly those that show faces, are actually filmed, because if that’s entirely CGI then actors really have to […]

Video Games Aren’t Just Toys!

A recent IGN article once again brought up the topic of games as an art form, but the author’s opinion differed greatly from what you’d expect to see on a gaming site, as he not only stated clearly and firmly that games are not art, but also that they shouldn’t be. His stance was that […]