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GOG.com Holiday Sale – Half Price Off (Nearly) Everything That Isn’t 75% Off
Ah, ’tis the season. Can’t you feel (insert name) Holiday in the air? Snow is falling/sun is shining, little kiddies everywhere are throwing snowballs/tantrums because it’s too hot. And lo! What’s...
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Reus | Review
I, like many of you, have yearned for another age in which the ‘god game’ genre makes a heroic return showering us with a plethora of games like Populous and Black & White. Alas, while Reus doesn’t...
View ArticleGOG.com Holiday Sale – Half Price Off (Nearly) Everything That Isn’t 75% Off
Ah, ’tis the season. Can’t you feel (insert name) Holiday in the air? Snow is falling/sun is shining, little kiddies everywhere are throwing snowballs/tantrums because it’s too hot. And lo! What’s that...
View ArticleReus | Review
I, like many of you, have yearned for another age in which the ‘god game’ genre makes a heroic return showering us with a plethora of games like Populous and Black & White. Alas, while Reus doesn’t...
View ArticleThe Greatest Generation of Games
In the U.S., 1979 to 1982 are generally considered the “Golden Age” of gaming, the era when arcades dominated the American main street and Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong captured our...
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In The Beginning, There Was Populous
Old gods will stir and be appeased. They awake and shake off dust of ages, ready to tear the earth asunder and inspire their faithful. Leveling the land to ease the rise of civilization, calling down...
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Review: Populous DS
Looking down at the teeming masses of unwashed, ant-like peasants meandering around the rugged landscape building cities and waging war in my honor, it’s hard to ignore the intoxicating feeling of...
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Representative of Gamers: Profile of Game Developer Turned Legislator
A former game developer is running for office as a Representative in the United States Congress and The Escapist sat down with him to pick his brain on his gaming cred, his position on the EMA vs....
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Molyneux’s Unfocused Innovation
At the risk of Extra Punctuation becoming some kind of regular vehicle for apologetic backtracking to soften the blows of particularly brutal Zero Punctuations, I just want to say that I am fond of...
View ArticleThe Sims Medieval Review
The ads and marketing for The Sims Medieval have presented it as an RPG fantasy derivative of its best-selling franchise, but the game is actually more akin to Peter Molyneux’s Populous or the more...
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Populous
Peter Molyneux’s classic god-game Populous can be found at GOG for $5.99 Populous, for me, is one of those classics that I’d heard a lot about over the years but never really knew much about first...
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Peter Molyneux’s Career Is a Series of Desks
The venerable game designer of Populous and Fable explains how he went from indie to Microsoft, to indie again, and why. The story of Molyneux’s career can all be explained by how each of his...
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