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Towns and Brothers Who Tell Their Stories – The Cursed Checkpoint #130s

12/14/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Podcasts, The Cursed Checkpoint

Ethan and Matthew continue to tell their own tragic tales of Towns. Naturally this leads to getting distracted by Rocky, learning foreign languages, and shining a light on their limited understanding of farming. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news headline, or industry story. It features a rotating cast of up to 3 members of the Horrible Night writing staff and/or video game industry professionals. Episode [...]

Towns and Brothers Who Build Them – The Cursed Checkpoint #130

12/13/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Podcasts, The Cursed Checkpoint

Ethan brings his brother Matthew into the virtual Horrible Night studios to talk about the game, Towns, their experiences with it, and what they hope from the simulation game in the future. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news headline, or industry story. It features a rotating cast of up to 3 members of the Horrible Night writing staff and/or video game industry professionals. Episode Background [...]

SimCity Only Looks Better During a Disaster

10/16/2012
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

There’s just something about this new version of SimCity that has just about as excited as I was the first time I discovered the joys of SimAnything-ing. And now Maxis gives us a trailer featuring the random moments we all love to hate the most, disasters: Now, that we will be able to build the best looking versions of our cities yet, it’s good to know that they can still be destroyed beyond recognition at any given moment. Of course, [...]

Project Zomboid Preview: The Zombie Elitist Game of Choice

07/07/2011
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by Ethan Moses in: Previews, Testing

Survival horror games were a staple back in the mid- to-late nineties; the fear and tension produced as a result of being ill-equipped in a worst-case scenario creating a game play experience that stuck with a person well into their dreams… or nightmares. Those golden days of horror have since gone away with over-the-top action replacing the methodical pacing of games like Resident Evil as a means to entertain more of the masses. However, while AAA developers may want the [...]

MLB 11: The Show Starts the Spring Off Right

March is here and with it comes the hope of every baseball fan (every Cubs fan in particular) that this year will finally be the year their team wins the World Series. The San Francisco Giants set the tone by winning their first title in 60+ years and other teams look to repeat the model they set last season. As a baseball fan, the start of every spring gets me excited for the upcoming year and nothing quenches my thirst [...]

How You Play the Game: Spore Made Me Switch Teams

01/17/2011
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

Despite what anyone tells you, the world is made up of two and only two factions; bad guys and good guys. Whether it was my upbringing, prenatal chemical reactions or the insane number of times I watched Invasion USA, I find myself attached to the good guy portion of the population. I wouldn’t say I am the best good guy, but I tend to avoid causing trouble for others. Even when playing video games, my good guy status clings to [...]

Minecraft Wants Your Soul, Just Give In

12/06/2010
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by Ethan Moses in: Reflex, Reviews

Minecraft was supposed to be a distraction, a taste test that should have ended with an indifferent shrug and a mouse click on to the next game in my library. I’d read all the stories, but never bought into the hype. It sounded more monotonous than fun and honestly had been turning my nose up at the graphics (something I rarely do). It’s been 24 hours since I first signed on to the cubed world of Minecraft and I just realized that writing this [...]

WTF Is This: Game Dev Story

10/27/2010
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by Justin Lacey in: Reflex, Reviews

Never have I played a game as meta as Game Dev Story – an addictive sim game about managing your own game companies where you can make a sim game about managing your own game company. Let that settle in. I’m still having trouble comprehending just how much time this iPhone app stole from my weekend. It appeals to a small niche audience of gamers with game development aspiration and an affinity for sim games. Being a part of that [...]

Madden 11 has Flow

After not playing the Madden franchise in a few years, I decided to download the demo of Madden NFL 11 when it hit Xbox Live earlier this week. I played it for 2 quarters and 1 series in the second half and came to the conclusion that yep, it’s Madden alright. I was afraid that after skipping on the last couple of editions I would be totally lost but it was almost exactly the same experience for me that I [...]