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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dragon Age will be hitting computers around the globe in a couple of hours. There have been a few reviews out already and the initial responses from the critics have been excellent. One thing about the game that I was always dismissing as hype was the whole “spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate” thing. Based on [...]

Man talk about mixed signals. Just last week, I was convinced that Activision / Infinity Ward really don’t care much for the PC community at all. And now, I end up reading this. Now, I’m no programmer, but I’m pretty sure that integrating Modern Warfare 2 with Steamworks like this would not have been a [...]

The L4D2 boy-cotters were a bunch of idiots. There. I said it. They were certainly passionate about what they felt, but they were still idiots. The original L4D was a darn good game; and even without any further updates, NO ONE could complain that they didn’t get their money’s worth after having played it for over a [...]