In the golden years, my inner circle and I were deeply involved in the Olympic Sport of Soul Calibur. We werent weekend warriors, who popped the game in because we were high and the game looked cool. We werent into the game for egotistical glory – to feel badass and cocky when our character performed a flashy move. We were simply warriors.

There are (at least) two ways that games are educational. One is academically, where games can be used to flavour information to reach the player for processing. Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, the game mentioned in the video, is an educational game which teaches players about geography. The game tasks the player with pinpointing the location of a criminal mastermind, and the player must move from city to city, learning facts about the country where the perpetrator was last seen; For example, I heard the criminal ask when the cherry blossoms are in bloom. or She talked about visiting Shinto shrines. The player is given a handful of options of new countries to explore, and if they choose Tokyo, they are rewarded with pictures of the country, and they progress one step closer to finding the villain. If they choose the wrong country, theyre presented with facts of the country theyve chosen, but dont get any closer to catching the bad guy. The user gets to play a game, but leaves receives new knowledge of a country regardless of whether they win or lose. And I think this is how most people look at educational gaming – as a way of smuggling factual information to the play through gameplay.

So Spring has sprung. You know what that means! Allergies. And Spring cleaning, I guess. You’ll notice the facelift we’ve given the site. And by facelift, I’m referring the generic and inoffensive default wordpress theme we’ve got going here. We just switched site hosts, and had a bit of trouble retaining a good chunk of [...]

[Before I start, I'm going to post the obligatory spoiler alert here. While there are no story spoilers in this article, I will discuss a horror mechanic that is built on player expectations. If you have yet to complete either Dead Space or Dead Space 2, I'd suggest you play through at least one of [...]

I finally got around to starting and finishing my very first Munny doll over the past week. It was a bit of a rushed job. I bought some 2-compound sculpting clay that air dries and doesnt need to be baked. I rushed the job somewhat – I didn’t bother using sculpting tools and moulded everything [...]

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CliffyB tweeted this video a few days ago. The HaroldLi retweeted it. Then I retweeted it. Then I decided to post it on this blog. If you watch this and think the techbot is being a dick to the cardboardboxbot, you’re probably the cardboardboxbot.

It’s our first week back to podcasting, so Amrit and I were kind of ironing out the kinks and trying to get the magic back. In this episode, we go a full hour discussing gamey things new and old including: Battlefield 3 impressions, Dead Space 2′s awesomeness, Red Dead Redemption – Undead Nightmare, Amrit’s Stink Feet, and some doe-eyed talk about what an awesome zombie game might be.

I was supposed to have uploaded our most recent podcast to the blog for someone’s enjoyment … but I’ve been super busy. We recorded last wednesday, so maybe I’ll post it tomorrow, giving it a week to cool, since it was such a sizzler. I also realized I didn’t state the date on the podcast [...]

You know what you need to be playing on your iFad device? Battleheart. Read more about this awesome Action RPG game inside.