Weekend Gaming
I didn’t just play Guild Wars this weekend. I stopped into Wizard 101 a little, and, oh, finally got around to moving Dina from Befallen to Najena, where she happily joined Nostalgia. Almost as soon...
View ArticleMore Social Games: Office Heroes, Kingdoms of Camelot, Virtual Villagers
If you’re going to waste time playing social games, you might as well play a game that elevates wasting time to a paying activity. In Astroape Studios’ Office Heroes, out now for the Apple iPhone and...
View ArticleFacebook thinks I’m an idiot.
Okay, seriously? I get this ad on my adbar when I load up Facebook. Looks like some me-too Bejeweled clone, so already it gets a negative one zillion on the Tipa Cool Game Scale. BUT! WAIT! You can...
View ArticleThoughts on the social gaming explosion
I quit Frontierville tonight. No big deal. I ended up playing it a lot longer than I thought I would, actually. I got to a point in FV where I’d just log in once in the morning and once again at...
View ArticleTreasure Abyss: Not your ordinary social game
I thought I would never find a game on Facebook that tied together social gaming and RPGs. This whole experiment with Facebook games has typically been one spam-filled sim game after another....
View ArticleFacebook game roundup: Warstorm and City of Wonder
If you’ve ever played the Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic: the Gathering card games, you’re already pretty familiar with the game behind Zynga’s Warstorm: collectible card battle games where you build a...
View ArticleSocial Game Review: Backyard Monsters
I figured when I finally got the chance to bomb my neighbor’s yard from orbit, that that would be the turning point. But, I guess not. Apparently twigs just don’t do that much damage. I have a plan....
View ArticleSocial Game Review: Lucky Train
When a Japanese friend I’d met in Treasure Abyss invited me to try A Bit Lucky‘s “Lucky Train“, I thought immediately of the legendary train sim “Densha de GO!“. The description sure sounded like it....
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