April 20, 2011
Children's games often try to both educate and entertain but sometimes can miss the mark completely. Console games aren't exactly cheap, and you're not always guaranteed a playable demo before you commit to purchase. Bin Weevils is a free, somewhat massively multiplayer children's game that uses Adobe Flash to run a virtual world in your web browser.
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April 18, 2011
Since the passing of the Dreamcast, Sega is a company that has had to adapt to survive. No longer able to compete in the hardware market, Sonic's forefathers turned their heads solely to the software market. For the first time ever, we saw Sonic on a Nintendo console. Since then Sega has published and developed a multitude of games, and not all of them for the console market. Spiral Knights is aimed solely at PC users.
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March 16, 2011
Valve’s original hit first person shooter Half-Life gave birth to some wonderful third-party development. Thanks to the free software development kit (SDK) modders, mappers and modelers were free to hack and mould the engine into completely different games. Many of these games survived the jump from the original Half-Life engine to the Source engine, first [...]
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February 24, 2011
If there’s one thing that I don’t like about real-time massively multi-player online games is that some players live their entire lives on some of those games. If you’re a newbie and just testing the waters, you’re lucky to survive for five seconds. Unless I’ve had a lot of time to practice the game offline, [...]
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December 27, 2010
When a board game is found in one out of three American households, it’s a sure bestseller. SCRABBLE is probably found in the same numbers around the world as it is played in 121 countries. If you never owned a Scrabble board, then you must have been an outdoors type while growing up or on [...]
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November 5, 2010
Do you remember those cool space exploration games from the 1990′s like Sentinel Worlds and Wing Commander? These were games that you could play for hours on end, without any set script and without anything that you had to do except whatever you wanted. You could jump through galaxies, explore distant planets, or earn money [...]
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September 29, 2010
Wikipedia has interesting information on Battleship, a game most of us might have played at least once in childhood. The game predates even World War 1. From paper and pencil, the game has successfully transitioned into mobiles, iPhones and iPads. Battleship is presumably one of the earliest gameplays with more guesswork and simple rules. The [...]
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September 6, 2010
Minecraft is a unique game that can’t easily fit into one genre. It’s sort of a first-person creation game “” the main draw is that you can shape the world by building and destroying blocks. But the game also includes a survival mode and a multiplayer mode, and there are plans to include still more [...]
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July 29, 2010
It is one thing to play a fighting game like Street Fighter where you battle out computerized opponents. In time, you eventually learn the tricks and techniques of the computer, and you can usually conquer the opponent once you get enough practice in. But when you’re playing other real players who, like you, have been [...]
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June 12, 2010
The roots of of massively multiplayer online games, or MMOs, are deep in the realm of subscription based gameplay. While today the idea of charging a subscription fee for a game seems cliche, it was revolutionary when MMOs began to gain popularity roughly a decade ago. Everquest, while not the first MMO, was the genre’s [...]
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May 7, 2010
I must admit that of all free online simulation games, I love strategic multiplayer ones the most. Here at MakeUseOf, we love simulations, like the car simulations Karl covered, or the Google Earth flight simulator that Leon wrote about. While these are fun, it’s the multiplayer space battle games that I really love – like [...]
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April 18, 2010
What’s the common denominator for pirates, assassins, fire mages, space troopers, vikings and comic book heroes? At first glance, not much. But all of these characters have served a significance in their own way. These are all historical figures, heroes so to say, albeit some of them imaginary. Now, as imaginary fights go, these guys [...]
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January 29, 2010
Full throttle, drifting the corners and the smell of burning rubber. Auto races. There’s little more exciting, more empowering than flying over the track on your metal horse. Sadly, street races are illegal. And I don’t have my driver’s license. To be honest, I’ve never been very interested in cars. When I’m in “car boasting” [...]
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January 17, 2010
In the beginning, the world was one. All races lived in peace, united under the banner of a human king. Great cities prospered under magic and technology. When the Pom Maestros developed the NeoSteam Receiver, it became possible to harvest the NeoSteam from ancient energy stones, located throughout the world. But the discovery was met [...]
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October 26, 2009
What do you do when the XBox 360 has gone down, your Nintendo DSi is on the fritz, and even your board games aren’t around because you sold them at your yard sale? You and some friends, sitting around on your thumbs is no way to spend Saturday night. What you need are Hand Games! [...]
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