Category: games
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The 2011 NO BUY Game Challenge
Let’s see, CIV5, Call of Duty Black Ops, Star Craft 2, and there are probably more games I purchased in 2010 and haven’t really played out. I’ve ‘finished’ the campaigns but haven’t really gotten to the depth of game play with the multiplayer on any of them. I’m deep into WoW again with the expansion,…
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Balancing WoW
Back to work this week, which means I have to scale back the World of Warcraft binge I was able to indulge in during the evenings over the 10 days of the shutdown period for christmas and new years. For the first time since early 2008 I didn’t do any work related emails, reading, writing…
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RPG #2
The second week of the Rune Quest 2 campaign went exceptionally well last night with pizza and ninja bread men, although Xavier did his best to stay up late to see what all the fuss was about. I’m really enjoying the bronze-age mythological Glorantha game world setting and the Rune Quest rule system, but it…
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Historical rationality: some thoughts on Civilisation 5
During a short trip to Tasmania last week for my grandmother’s fabulous 90th birthday celebrations, I managed to cram in two activities – reading a little of Raymond Williams (1977) Marxism and Literature, and playing quite a bit of Civilization 5 (Civ5) – about 15 hours worth. Civ5 is the latest in the turn-based strategy…
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“Time to Man Up”
Gender studies is mostly definitely not my field but there is something about the characters in StarCraft2 that goes well beyond cliched representations of masculinity in games like Grand Theft Auto and Medal of Honour, and I think it has something to do with the Power Armour. Humans are frail terrestrial creatures not suited to…
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