Posts Tagged Games

Board game reviews — BoardGameGeek

GameBrowser – Sorted By Rank | BoardGameGeek. Rich asked me where I get board game ideas, I default to BoardGameGeek. The page referenced has games by average rating, as well as a hot games list.

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Christmas Board Games

We always buy some board games for the Christmas period and play them in the evening. Started the practice years ago with Settlers of Catan which remains the gold standard.  This year we tried:
  • Hanging Gardens, The | BoardGameGeek. OK it seems like this could be a fun game and we started to enjoy it, but the game exploded into a major argument about the rules. The rulebook is not the strongest.
  • Tzaar — fun and quick, but only two player. It is part of some series of games called Project GIPF that interrelate in some fashion, need to learn more about
  • Wasabi! — some liked, some did not. The winner liked, shockingly. I thought it was fun tho I pissed everyone off by playing the Wasabi! card late in the which really put the brakes on the action.  Late in the game, gameplay really slows down as the board gets cluttered which is a problem.
Settlers is still the best but these were all entertaining

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Rogue for iPhone: nerdgasm

CrunchGear » Archive » Rogue for iPhone: nerdgasm. Installed.

Late 1982, I am killing myself chasing two degrees at CMU. In the mornings I was at the business school, classmates all wearing power suits and reading the WSJ and the Financial Times during breaks. Afternoons spent in the EE department with classic geeks.

After midnight in some lab deep in the bowels of the EE department, debugging some realtime ASM code for speech processing, and this lank-haired guy next to me asks “Hey, do you know how to kill a 12th-level necromancer?”

That was my intro to Rogue.

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All over the place — Distilleries of Scotland, DC, Bullets, Games, Doghouses, Golf, Currency, and more

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The eyeballing game

The eyeballing game. Angle bisecting and right angling are apparently my special skills.  I pretty much suck at finding circle centers and making parallelograms tho.

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Spore is awesome

Quite addictive. And the exchange of creatures online adds a great element.  Recommended.  Yeah the amazon reviewers are all going apeshit over the drm on the title, but it is fun.

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Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within

Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within:
  • Every time I plunge into a game, I inevitably choose the most Cro-Magnon, “Hulk smash, Hulk destroy” strategy possible.
  • But what happens if the second self you create inside videogames turns out to be a total dick?
I can relate.

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Canadian movie theaters rent screen time to gamers

CrunchGear » Archive » Canadian movie theaters rent screen time to gamers — not sure this will ever pencil out or how it would even work, but the idea of playing Halo or COD4 on a giant movie screen is pretty awesome.

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Ohio State Historical Results

BuckeyeXtra – The Columbus Dispatch : Ohio State football results. — nice new service from the Dispatch.  9-11-1 against USC all time, 0-5 in last 5 games.  Let’s hope Tressel can reverse this trend as he has reversed others

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Bioshock film?

Verbinski to direct BioShock film — I will run to see this. How many films are about Ayn-Rand-ish Objectivist paradises gone horribly wrong? On the bottom of the ocean? If you haven’t played the game, you should.

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National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest 2008

MAKE: Blog: National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest 2008 — oh would this have been a blast to go to. Mousetrap had to be my all-time favorite game as a kid.

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Worst Christmas Gift Ever — C-jump will teach your kids how to program

C-jump will teach your kids how to program » Coolest Gadgets

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Free games, indy games

Not sure any of these will reduce my COD4 playing time but still…

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Wireless-enchanced DS?

Just ordered Amazon.com: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin: Video Games based on the NYTimes review today. Have to wonder — when will we see a DS with wireless integration like the Kindle? I don’t buy games that often, cartridges and manuals are a pain, why can’t I just download the games wirelessly?

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Here is some gear I need in Call Of Duty 4

Camera Shy? Pentagon Builds a Portable Lens-Destroying Laser and also linked in this article, technology for automagically finding sniper scopes.

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Casual Games

some of these in nytimes this week.

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Christmas gift awesomeness

  • The Kindle is awesome. The awesomeness is due to the wireless delivery of books. And the fact that I can browse Amazon at my PC and direct books to my Kindle with one click. (Similarly, the Unbox/Tivo integration is awesome for the same reason — Amazon is silently building a great asset here). The book selection is soooo much broader than that for the Sony Reader.
  • Call of Duty 4 is awesome. the ranking/challenge system keeps you engaged. Haven’t cracked the UT box yet, so entranced with COD4 – must get to 5-star general.
  • Stupid little RC helicopters that we got are fun. Available from lots of vendors. Pretty uncontrollable, watch out lamps!

Everything else is awesome too! I will blog it all in the fullness of time.

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Essential Crossword Tips

Diary of a Crossword Fiend: How Constructors Try to Trick You — don’t even try to do the NYT crosswords later in the week unless you have embraced all these. I hate the “Phonetics and building blocks” class of clue, they seem cheap to me.

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Software links

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Software of Note

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