Sam Fisher is back. And he is really, really mad. To anyone that had played the older Splinter Cell games, this would be reason enough to celebrate. Except for one little detail. This time around, ol Sam is up against a foe that renders him helpless. This time, the enemy is so abhorrently vile that [...]

I hate consoles. I really, really do. The “whys” are way too many to list. Suffice to say that the core reason is what consoles have done to games in general (read dumb them waaaay down). Well that and Deus Ex 2. I will never forgive the X box for blasphemy like that. But what [...]

Pay attention, if you will, to the following lines of dialogue from the single player campaign of Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BC2 from here on): Sweetwater (Yes that’s his name): “If this were a snowmobile race I’d take you down!” Haggard (Again, that’s his name): “It’s not a snowmobile. Snowmobiles are for sissies!” That should [...]

Ubisoft: Hi there! Welcome to Ubisoft. Me: Thanks. Ubisoft: What can we help you with today? Me: Well, I purchased this game from you today called “Assassin’s Creed 2”… Ubisoft: Ah yes, isn’t that a fine game? Me: I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been able to play it yet. And actually, I don’t think I [...]

If you really think about it, the whole sci-fi and fantasy thing is silly. I mean, we know there are no elves. We know there are no death stars or Jedis, yet we get sucked into worlds that are home to these imaginary beings with their impossible characters and ridiculous plots. Lemme see, the world [...]

The following isn’t really a blog post. It’s an excerpt from an email conversation I had with some like-minded folk about the state and direction of gaming in the Indian context. Credit for this goes to NT Balanarayan. He is the one that got the ball rolling on this one. Some of the questions asked [...]

Just dropping in to say a big THANK YOU to all who sent in their wishes. Now that the honeymoon is over with, we now find ourselves being busy beyond belief setting up the new apartment. Doing that while coming back to work AND trying to get back into shape after a month of gorging [...]

Just letting you guys know that I wont be blogging for a while as I’m leaving for my honeymoon. Me and the missus will be back on the 20th of Jan. Till then, take care and keep playing.

The musclebound psycho has no idea that I’m right above him. From the shadows, I watch with a smug expression as two of his gun toting buddies walk right towards the motion sensitive trap I set for them. BOOM! The explosion sends one of the idiots flying over the railings in a spectacular show of rag doll physics, the other hits a wall and [...]

Real time strategy games (RTS’s) have come along way. There was something inherently addictive about old school RTS titles like Age of Empires and the ridiculously popular Starcraft. The mecahnics were simple enough.  Build a base, collect resources, build an army, go forth and pwn. This is obviously a gross over simplification but it serves [...]