Posts Tagged ‘pc’

#894 Assassin’s Creed II

Posted: 21st December 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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203rd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft The way we find out about games can really vary depending on the person and the game itself. It may be a magazine, a billboard poster or a meme depicting a gang of chicks […]

#992 Time Gentlemen, Please!

Posted: 13th December 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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201st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Zombie Cow Studios Here’s a difference: We pretty much stopped this time not because we were done with the game, but because we wanted to play it seperately. We got a good idea of what the game was like… but are excited […]

#455 The Sims

Posted: 9th December 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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200th played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: PC Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Maxis Publisher: Electronic Arts Guess what? We’ve reached the stage where we can now say that we have reached the point of having covered one game in every five! Also known as 20% this is such a landmark where it now […]

#782 Portal

Posted: 27th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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197th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: PC/Xbox 360/PS3 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Memes. A term that first arose in the 1970s when Richard Dawkins wanted a term to apply to how ideas, catchphrases and other such items of culture can quickly pass through a populace. In the age of the […]

#660 Jade Empire

Posted: 15th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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194th played so far Genre: Action/Role Playing Game Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Bioware Publisher: Microsoft (Xbox) 2K Games (Xbox) My love for Bioware has been well documented on this blog before and happily, we’ve already had a chance to play Baldur’s Gate II, Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old […]

#859 World of Goo

Posted: 7th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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192nd played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC/Wii Year of Release: 2008 Developer: 2D Boy Publisher: 2D Boy Okay, this is a game listed in the book for both the PC and the Wii but in reality we played it on an iPad. There is no real reason for this other than price and the […]

#581 City of Heroes

Posted: 31st August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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175th played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Cryptic Studios Publisher: NCsoft Up next in our desperate panic to play certain games before any decent support sees them fall off of the face of the planet (Reset Generation, where are you?) is City of Heroes. Whilst this is a successful […]

171st played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: BioWare Publisher: LucasArts It’s interesting to see how many Star Wars game have ended up in the list. As much of a bad reputation licensed games have – a result of many of them having been generic platformers with updated graphics and, […]

#304 Civilization II

Posted: 26th July 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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165th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 1996 Developer: MicroProse Publisher: MicroProse There’s some games that, when they come up in our random selection, fill me with both anticipation and dread. We had a good time playing Civilization, but it took a long time… partially a ‘one more turn’ thing, partially […]

#889 Borderlands

Posted: 22nd July 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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164th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter/Role-Playing Game Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Gearbox Interactive Publisher: 2K Games The two of us had a discussion a few days ago about role-playing games. This is a fairly regular occurrence seeing how Jeroen’s favourite games to play whilst I am out […]