Category Archive: Gaming: A Legitimate Hobby

Top 10 ‘Zero Punctuation’ Episodes

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There’s a reason why Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshow’s weekly video game review ‘Zero Punctuation’ is so wildly popular (with Appa having gone into it right here). It’s damn funny, it’s insightful and…well, funny. Whenever… Continue reading

The Best And Worst of DIABLO III (spoiler free-ish review)

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Come, fellow traveller and hear a tale of darkness and devilry by Hedgehog This is a spoiler free-ish review. I’ve not revealed plot points in the text and all screencaps were taken from… Continue reading

AD&D : 10 Differences – ‘Pathfinder’ and ‘D&D 3.5’

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A few friends and I have started to get together on Saturday nights to playtest a new campaign module. The goals of the playtest are: A, to find ways to improve the module… Continue reading

Top 10 Classic Point-n-Click Adventures

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Back in the good ol’ days when gaming was primitive (the 1990s) there was a large and popular genre called ‘point-n-click’ adventure games. They were simple fare, forsaking action and speed for slower… Continue reading

Video Game Review: ‘The Walking Dead: Episode 1’

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Publisher: Telltale Platforms: PSN, XBLA, Steam (only available on Steam in Australia) The Walking Dead has, in the past two years, found itself becoming a household name. Beginning as an indie comic written… Continue reading

Best of Geekery: Why Gamers Have a Public Image Problem

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Once again Australian gamers have been left without a game the rest of the world has been enjoying. This time around it was the downloadable game based on ‘The Walking Dead’ that has… Continue reading

First Impressions Review: FEZ

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By Hedge Fez by Polytron After about six hundred years of waiting, mind-bending puzzle platformer Fez has finally been released on Xbox Live Arcade. I spent a brief time with it over the weekend, enough to… Continue reading

Games From the Bargin Bin: Saints Row 2

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When ‘Saints Row 2’ was leading up to it’s release a couple of years ago it got plenty of attention and positive reviews yet it didn’t grab my attention enough to put down… Continue reading

‘Angry Birds Space’ Game Review

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When ‘Angry Birds’ launched in 2009 it was an instant hit. It arrived on a new platform early in the game when most developers were still experimenting with what it was capable of.… Continue reading

‘Journey’ Game Review

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Like with any gaming genre the ‘Art’ game tends to follow the same structure. As much as they like to experiment with the traditional format of gaming they rarely break any boundaries whilst… Continue reading