Tag Archive

Lego Universe: Show us the game!

Written by Jim Rossignol on August 25, 2008.

The most recent Lego Universe video is a “behind-the-scenes” documentary advert which shows tantalising glimpse of the game, without actually giving us anything concrete. It’s largely annoying PR fluff. Honestly, it’s awesome that they’re having fun making the game and everything, but the rest of the world just wants to see it running! Show us the footage! Clickwards for the video.
Read the rest of this entry »

“Lego Is Inherently Digital”

Written by Jim Rossignol on June 30, 2008.

Nothing to do with PC games.

| View | Upload your own

LEGO Universe Details

Written by Jim Rossignol on May 4, 2008.

Reuters have revealed some of the first details on the LEGO Universe MMO, having talked to project director Mark William Hansen. From what we’ve managed to gather from this article and early discussion of the project at GDC, this could be the first children’s MMO with mass appeal. Crucial to its success will be getting this bit right:

Most social online worlds have their own currency or monetary system, and Lego Universe will also require users to spend virtual money to buy virtual bricks. But rather than winning or beating an opponent, players build capital by spending time in the game.

“The more a child plays, they collect more coins and more bricks. The more you play, the more you get to build things,” Hansen said.

If it can be a game purely of building and simply economics, it might just avoid the level-grind trap. What’s most fascinating, however, is the news that there will be a fully fledged LEGO building system in the game, and that users will even be able to order their creations and have the actual plastic kit delivered to their door…

Portal Lego Movie

Written by Jim Rossignol on March 21, 2008.

Lego Portal, now there’s a franchise collision we could all get behind. Anyway, it’s not a game but rather an animation by designer Nick Larsen. You can view the full thing here. It’s moderately amusing. In other Portal fan news: this.

Builders of the Lost Ark

Written by Alec Meer on March 9, 2008.

Look! More Lego Indiana Jones footage! Including the giant boulder!

Gametrailers. I don’t hate these guys.

So far, so Lego Star Wars - I was hoping there’d be a little more focus on controlling solely Indy, as he’s the reason we’re all signed up for this, but the character-swapping mechanic seems as prevalent as ever - but it sure is pretty and adventuresome. Plus, I now want a pet Lego crocodile.

My Childhood In Gaming Form

Written by John Walker on February 24, 2008.

Lordy lawks, this is the best thing my eyes have ever seen:

Read the rest of this entry »

Lego Portal

Written by Jim Rossignol on December 26, 2007.

No, not some incredible hybrid game announcement, but an awesome piece of Lego modeling over on Brickshelf.

Today, incidentally, is Boxing Day, or the UK’s official “Day After Christmas Day”. It is traditionally the day that gamers spend the entire day locked in a room playing something awesome. (To be fair, we spent most of yesterday playing videogames too, but hey.) If gaming were a religion, this would probably be our holy day. So that’s what I’m going to to do, right now… But what to play? That copy of The Witcher is looking peculiarly tempting.

What did you get for Christmas, readers?

Making Of: Lego Star Wars

Written by Kieron Gillen on December 21, 2007.

[Lego Star Wars remains one of the most quietly radical yet enormously successful games of recent years. I've done more than one post mortem on it too. Here's a different one I did over at the Escapist. In fact, I think Jim's done at least one too. Anyway, as always, this one originated back in PC Format. The interview was performed well before the second trilogy came out.]

“We didn’t have a view necessarily on Lego or Starwars… we don’t think we ever did anything that was not Lego or not Star Wars,” says Giant’s Development Director Jonathan Smith, “We were just doing Lego Star Wars. That’s what it’s it”. Sometimes these post-mortems are a story of woe, death and tears ending with an eventual bittersweet pleasure. Not so with Lego Star Wars. This is the one when everything went right.
Read the rest of this entry »

Future Lego Games I Want To See

Written by John Walker on July 30, 2007.

Dear Traveller’s Tales,

For your to-do list:

Lego Alien Trilogy

Lego The Thing

Lego Bridge Over The River Kwai

Lego When Harry Met Sally

Lego A Night To Remember

Lego Shadowlands

Lego Le Chagrin Et La Pitié

And not Lego The Lord Of The Rings which you’ll obviously end up doing.

(Lego Alien by Arvo of Brickshelf)

Lego Nazis

Written by Jim Rossignol on July 29, 2007.

I seem to recall having a conversation with someone (I believe it was John Smith, executive producer of Lego Star Wars) about whether it would be appropriate to have Lego Nazis. It seems that’s no longer a concern.