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Interview With Tony Gonzales, Development Manager at CCP Games
Recently, Christos Reid caught Tony Gonzales, Development Manager at CCP Games and fiction overlord of the stellar EVE Online for a quick chat about the game’s narrative universe. Christos, Gamernode: "What attracted you to space, as a creative medium?" Tony… Read More »
Exploring Space: EVE Online
Seth undocked, his colossal Gallente cruiser sliding out of the space station, Arghesi’s nearest moon in full view. He set course, and allowed the powerful Vexor’s jump drives power him into the space-time tunnel referred to as "the warp". He… Read More »
As I’ve been playing through Suda 51’s sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling epic, No More Heroes, I keep coming back to something Eskil Steenberg, one-man creator of the upcoming MMO, Love, said on a recent episode of ListenUp (the podcast, not… Read More »
Are Sandbox Games Failing?
Are sandbox games a dying breed? With titles like Far Cry 2, GTA IV and various others competing to present you with the best possible open world gaming experience, more recently one that is as contemporary as it is realistic,… Read More »
The Company of Heroes franchise is not the typical real-time strategy experience that many gamers are familiar with. Relic’s latest standalone expansion, Tales of Valor, takes the gameplay standard set forth in the first two entries in the series and… Read More »
Gotta Catch 'Em All
As Gordon Freeman traverses the ruins of City 17, he’ll occasionally see a lambda symbol etched onto the devastated remains of buildings, walls, or random air vents. Our silent protagonist will then think "aha! Health! Guns! Ammunition!" personally, I think… Read More »
Flock! Review
Flock! is an interesting and novel puzzle game from Capcom and Proper Games, in which players must use a small flying saucer to herd a variety of farm animals across vibrant, elaborate, and hazard-ridden landscapes toward the Mother Flocker mothership… Read More »
Just a Game About Iraq
For the sake of full disclosure, let me say right away that I am biased towards peace. War is a tragic human folly, and I would like nothing more than to see a world free of violence. That being said,… Read More »
Bringing it Home, Part Two
Note: if you’ve not played to the end of Mass Effect, Grim Fandango or Gears of War 2, avoid the first three paragraphs. My nerves are shattered. I’ve been guiding Commander Shepherd through Mass Effect for fifty-two hours now, and… Read More »
Mana Khemia: Student Alliance Review
Mana Khemia: Student Alliance is a game that should have never been. The original Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis, developed by Gust, was mediocre to begin with, and the PSP version only serves to degrade what was already a less-than-enrapturing… Read More »
