Aiee! A Left 4 Deaderino! Can our noble horseless carriage possibly escape? Or will we all be savaged by a Zomnibus come next week?
Meantime, pray enjoy our hasty round-up of all this week’s RPSian content.
Features, Opinions & Interviews
Soren Johnson – The final part of Gillen’s interview-without-end
The RPS Verdict: Audiosurf
Sins of a Solar Empire review – or at least a link to it
Interview: Introversion – on Multiwinia, Subversion and pretty much everything else
Lineage II review Colon Subtitle Hyphen Subtitle Colon Subtitle
Kwari review – killing in the name of (cash)
Piracy on PC – Who’s downloading what? In comments, the usual antagonistic sniping about the difference between piracy and stealing.
Interview: Valve’s Chet Faliszek – On Left 4 Dead, Portal, Wolpaw and German beer
InstantAction – Hands-on with GarageGames’ promising new browser-gaming portal
Interview: Positech – Cliff Harris on Democracy, Kudos, Rock Legends, piracy, indie and more
Previews
Velvet Assasin – formerly sabotage
Left 4 Dead – See it in action
Biomodd – an art-experiment: play games to make a plant grow
Warriors Orochi – brawling Samurai
Machinarium -Beautifully strange adventuring from the guys who made Samorost
Section 8 – New FPS from the Kohan team. It’s revolutionary and all that junk, apparently.
STALKER: Clear Sky
Saga – MMO RTS thingum
Assassin’s Creed – So what’s different on PC?
C&C3: Kane’s Wrath – That is a ridiculous brain-hat
Heavy Duty – Back From The Dead
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Stronghold Extreme – yes, EXTREME
Demigod – Jim’s eyes-on report of Chris Taylor’s next’un
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Damnation – boobies. Sigh.
Mafia 2 – Pretty pictures
Daedalic Entertainment – Four intruiging new point’n'clickers, from straight outta Germany
Free games and gaming frippery
Gravitation – pixel-art rumination on emotions, from the chap behind Passage
News
The best of indie games, 2007
Sid Meier on the possible EA/2K merger
Boycott Games For Windows Live – in comments: much anger
The Warren Spector lectures – in comments, everyone tries to share links for videos saved from the now-deaded site
Men of War beta begins
A fond farewell to Gary Gygax – in comments, many virtual wreaths are laid
Dexter: The Game – giving Walker an excuse to talk about his bloody cat again, and the rest of us to chastise him for not watching The Wire
Call of Duty: The MMO?
Casual gaming – the saviour of the PC?
Dawn of War Soulstorm arrives -will defunct developer Iron Lore see any cash from it?
Frontlines: Fuel of War no worky on Steam – now updated with comment from Valve and word on an official fix
Omnibus image derived from a Creative Commons-licensed photo by xddorox.
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Would like to add this to the news about Gygax’s death.
A Mitch Benn nowshow tribute.
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warren spector lectures link is wrong.
Fixed. Thanks, Sbs.
KG
The Witcher article swept under the mat? Heh; bet Alec wishes he’d never heard of that game at this stage.
No, left out by mistake. And that post wasn’t penned by me, at any rate.
The Lineage 2 review link has a extra h in the http.
I still say it needs a sentry on that van.