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Aquaria

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

This review is compiled from my posts on Rock, Paper, Shotgun and the snopes message boards.
I’ve just finished Aquaria, one of the most beautiful and magical games I’ve played. On its surface the game can be thought of as borrowing from Ecco the Dolphin and Metroid.
I got it shortly before Christmas on the recommendation [...]

A little slice of fortress life

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

I recently upgrade my computer, and yet since then I have been almost entirely addicted to the ASCII game Dwarf Fortress. My 8800GT weeps with boredom, yet my processor still seems to get a fair work out due to the sheer ammount of detail involved. I’ll speak more on the game properly later, but I [...]

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