Apr 032009
 
A typical night in a typical UK lounge

A typical night in a typical UK lounge

It was left this week to a price comparison site for the PS3 game console to voice the complaint of UK men that their women are useless at sex.

This website  interviewed 1,130 men in relationships. It found that the majority would rather spend the night playing games than playing with their partners.

Their women, they said, were “hard to please”  and “not as much fun” as console gaming. “Rubbish in bed”, in other words.

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Apr 012009
 
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Transcendence: funky free 2d space game action

Free arcade / RPG space game with roguelike tendencies

Following the discovery of Spelunky, I’ve found another fun, free game with a roguelike randomness to its design: Transcendence, by a guy called George Moromisato. This one’s been around for ages, it seems.  Set in space, it provides a unique game universe to explore every time you start a new game.

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Mar 292009
 

Spelunky - free, fun, evil and insanely difficult

Spelunky - free, fun, evil and insanely difficult

A free roguelike platform game with snakes, spikes, traps and other evil.

Spelunky is a game of cave exploration (the clue’s in the name). You play a familiar whip-wielding, hat-wearing explorer character who has to delve deeper and deeper into increasingly dangerous caves in search of loot and secrets.

 Spelunky is one of those rare finds: a game that’s free, fun, addictive, and one I’m still playing more than 10 minutes later. Mostly that’s because it’s incredibly hard and quite frustrating, but in a way that doesn’t stop me coming back for more punishment.

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