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10 years ago
I've talked about my love for Robot Unicorn Attack before. That said, that short paragraph isn't nearly enough. Frankly, this Canabalt-elaboration is one of my favourite games of the year. I'm terrible at it though, thus going onto the adult swim leaderboards is a bit of a waste of time. Now, however, it's on Facebook, meaning you can challenge your friends and create a more…
11 years ago
The bizarre response of the games community to the success of Facebook games - a mix of hysteria, hatred, and irrational claims about it "destroying" the games industry - has been a hot topic for 2010. One of the calmer and more concise discussions of the phenomenon is over on Mr Ian Bogost's blog. He didn't just write about it, however, he did what game…
Everyone hates FarmVille, apart from the millions of players who adore it. Your endless bitching about it dominating your Facebook feed and how it's not a proper game and blahblahbloodyblah can now be turned into something like constructive criticism, thanks to gag-app FarmVillain. Pick a comically twisted faux-FarmVille status update, add it to your profile with a click, and confuse/horrify any friends and family who…
Considering RPS' wandering remit, I'm surprised that we haven't actually written anything about Farmville. Especially as Jim's good lady is a player. Let's hand over to Eurogamer's Ellie Gibson, whose Farmville diaries sees her grow from someone who really can't see the point to someone who self-describes themselves as a drug-pusher. As she concludes: "Here's the thing: whether they're right or wrong, you can't ignore…
Should we be covering more social network-based gaming? Oh, probably - it's something of a gateway drug for folk who are traditionally non-gamers, which makes it fascinating. It's also a big Woo! PC! battlecry, a grand statement of how even the most bottom-end machine is a gaming device with something to offer most anyone. No console will ever be that, because they're always bought as…
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