Posts Categorized: games

Just One More Game …

Posted and filed under asides, games, Software.

There’s a really good article in this week’s New York Times Magazine on the hyperaddictive, time-sucking, relationship-busting, mind-crushing power and allure of silly digital games. (hat tip to @sprokolopolis)

Friday Five: Toys

Posted and filed under games, My Life.

These are the games and toys I loved the most for about the first twelve years of my life. Tie: Atari 2600, Intellivision LEGOs G.I. Joe Matchbox cars 2-XL

Nobody Really Likes Farmville

Posted and filed under games, Software.

I think I will stab myself in the stomach with a fork if one more person sends me a stray chicken or cat or whatever it is that people keep sending me; but it’s worth reading this seriously fascinating psychological analysis of why people play that annoying game.

Adventures with Microsoft Support

Posted and filed under games, Hardware, rants, technology.

My XBox 360 broke near the end of December. I was playing EA Sports NCAA Football 10 at around 3 o’clock in the morning — with the Gators leading 45 – 10 against an unbeaten #2 TCU late in the 3rd quarter of the 2014 BCS Championship Game — when the screen suddenly went black…. Read more »

NCAA Football 10: Review

Posted and filed under College Football, games.

I have had EA Sports NCAA Football 10 for about three weeks. (My friend Kelly won it for me in a silent auction at our friend’s charity golf tournament last month.) Since I have had every copy of this title since 1994, I think I am able to provide a decent review of the current… Read more »

Friday Five: iPhone Games

Posted and filed under games.

The iPhone games that are occupying the highest percentage of my free time right now are: FlightControl (previously) Wild West Pinball Parachute Panic Wild West Guns SkyBurger

Flight Control

Posted and filed under games.

The absolute best iPhone app on the market right now has got to be Firemint’s FlightControl. You are an air-traffic controller tasked with routing planes (and helicopters) to the correct landing strip at one of three different airports. It sounds simple — and it is easy to learn and play — but after you’ve gotten… Read more »

Frankfurter Fling (Flash Game)

Posted and filed under games.

In the last two years my company has published almost 100 Flash games. That, my friends, is a lot. It’s very nearly a new game every week. We have a tremendously talented group of unbelievably creative artists and some of the sharpest web developers on the planet. The games we produce are generally targeted at… Read more »