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Sep
Features Games and Gaming Retrospectives
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There’s been a bit of discussion of late on the MeFightClub board about the Most Important Video Game Ever (thankfully no one insisted on going all meme-ish and spelling it Evar).
Easy, I think, it’s got to be the first video game ever made, right? So off I pop to Wikipedia and start looking around. I was surprised by what I found. Did you know that the first video game was made in 1947? Neither did I…
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Sep
Features Games and Gaming News
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With a gentle beep the email arrived in my inbox, to approximately the same welcome as viagra-sales spam. Worse, in fact, as it wasn’t blocked by my spam filter at the server before being served to my desktop like a freshly-laid dog turd.
“Thank you for being a valued member of Xbox LIVE. We want to let you know about an upcoming price increase for Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions…”
Now there’s one significant problem with a price increase for XBox Live Gold – actually, there are several, but let’s start with the fact that I let my subscription lapse a couple of months ago and have been on the fence about renewing ever since. Looks like Microsoft have made my mind up for me. So from a US perspective (the price rises and the benefits of a Gold subscription vary depending on where you are in the world), let’s take a look at what $60/year buys you…
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Jul
Features Games and Gaming Retrospectives
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Hi, and welcome to The Lost Starfighter – FullGlassEmptyClip’s retrospective on that much-mourned loss to the PC gaming scene, the Space Combat Simulator.
For the first column, an intro-retrospective not about my first Space combat sim, but probably my favourite: X Wing.
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It’s 1977. I’m 12 years old. It’s a gorgeous Northern BC summer day, one of those glorious fleeting perfect days that are all the sweeter in the frozen north, because the memories of mud and slush barely fade before the leaves have already begun to turn again. Utterly pure blue sky, sun warm on the skin, grass a deep impatient green, a light breeze off the lake that is so invigoratingly packed with oxygen and piney perfume it might as well be cocaine. I’m playing third base, it’s what we’d call little league if we called it that in Canada back then, I’m just beginning to feel the awkwardness of adolescence, but the sheer pleasure of being alive and standing on that dirt under that gigantic bowl of sky on that day is more than enough to let me ignore my self-consciousness. I’m a big, strong kid, and even if I’m more bookworm than jock, I enjoy sports.
We return after holidays, work, and the inevitable technical breakdowns, but we persevere to bring you another podcast! This week, we discuss the impossible: Minecraft goes 1.0, the unfortunate: GSC Game Studios and GamePro fold, and the stupid: EA continues their über-ban policy, parents name their kid after a character in Skyrim, Telltale gets caught [...]
Making video game characters with whom I can fall in love takes a cocktail of hard work, genius, luck and Jennifer Hale. It turns out that making video game characters I can hate takes practically no effort at all. In this short series of articles a small collection of pixels, logic and random events will [...]
To get myself back in the groove, I will make this short and (hopefully) sweet. I have 3 Steam copies of Worms Reloaded to give away. All you have to do is comment below, and I will randomly pick 3 winners. No stories needed! I will pick the winners Thursday night, and announce them sometime [...]
Well, hell, it’s been a long time. I’m sorry for the disruption in service. To make up for it, I’m giving away 2 copies of Portal 2. You might have heard of Portal, it helped launch the Orange box, made TF2 a household name (at least in my circle of friends) So, here is the [...]
Welcome back to the feature formerly known as Do You Like Free Stuff. This time around, I am offering up one pre-order Direct2Drive copy of Civilization V. The contest will run til 8:00 P.M. Eastern Thursday September 2nd. How do you enter? Just leave a comment below. I will randomly choose one winner this week [...]
Imagine a single player Left 4 Dead where you’re trapped in one room, you’re playing top down view, and it’s always a crescendo event. Oh, and the zombies are all stock traders, and they drop money and weapons. So you shoot them all dead (again) with machine guns, shotguns, miniguns, rocket launchers and airstrikes. And [...]
Launching along the upcoming Tron: Evolution game and Tron: Legacy film, gamer peripherals maker Razer are launching a mouse and keyboard for those who can’t quite afford the $35,000 for a real Tron legacy lightcyle on ebay but do still have some wonga spare for a keyboard and mouse that well, glow in the dark. [...]
If you’re still using Windows XP and haven’t upgraded to Service Pack 3 yet, you really should. Microsoft have ended support for versions of XP still on SP2 or older, so you won’t be getting any more security patches. The latest set of patches issued yesterday, including for the heavily exploited Help & Support Centre [...]
Sorry for the announcement delay, it was a long and busy weekend. The winners are: SpacePope NiceGuyMike Congratz to the winners! Sorry to all that did not win, but check back soon for more fun and exciting contests.
Oil Derrick Worker You never see them, because, well, they’re kinda isolated, but you hear reports about them, and they sound terrifying. Tai Chi Master If you ever swing that ax faster than an heavily sedated sea sponge, he goes down immediately. But should you go slower, HOO EEEEE!. Hipsters You only ever encounter their [...]
Well, hell, it’s been a long time. I’m sorry for the disruption in service. To make up for it, I’m giving away 2 copies of Portal 2. You might have heard of Portal, it helped launch the Orange box, made TF2 a household name (at least in my circle of friends) So, here is the [...]
Thanks to everyone who typed some letters and then hit the “Submit Comment” button! The 5 lucky winners are: Timothy beardlace Lawton27 gamegeneral Gemmy check your email, or steam popups. Enjoy your prizes! Stay tuned for our next event.
Hello, Full Glass Empty Clip readers! We’ve received a literal trickle of emails complaining about the lack of sensory stimulation that our humble blog provides. Here’s an example letter: “Dear Full Glass Empty Clip: Your website is wondrous to behold, a treat for the eyes, both in design and the uniformly high quality of the [...]
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