Players learn the answers to those questions during the course of five missions in which stealth and weapon-handling are both key to survival. Not only do enemies lurk around every corner, but players must also fight off Pandorum, a medical condition that leads to hallucinations and insanity. Players can share their progress with friends via…
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MIT's Restaurant Game Released as Universal Application
The M.I.T. Media Lab, Cognitive Machines Group, has released a Universal version of its Restaurant Game. The game is part of a research project designed to assist in the modeling of human social behavior. The restaurant game seeks to solve the problem of adding human social behavior to AI games. By combining the gameplay experiences…
Frenzic 1.0
The Iconfactory describes Frenzic as a game that takes minutes to learn and months to master. Thatis pretty much spot-on. Frenzic is a puzzle game that The Iconfactory co-developed with ARTIS Software. The object is to fill circles with colored wedge shapes before the timer runs out. Completing circles with wedges of the same color…
The Slacker's Guide - Escape Velocity: Nova and Ragdoll Masters 3.0
A Classic Reborn: Escape Velocity: Nova It probably shouldn’t have begun the way it did. In the summer of 1996, after a senior year project of revamping the local water company’s Web site, a summer position opened to bring the latest and greatest web technologies of the day to the site (read: frames, blink tags…
John C. Dvorak Says "It's The Games, Stupid"
John C. Dvorak, curmudgeon extraordinaire, has written a (fairly) sane and (mostly) cogent look at some of the differences between the Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms. Mr. Dvorak looks at such issues as total cost of ownership, viruses and security, applications, ease of use, compatibility, and stability, and says that none of those issues seem…
Computing With Bifocals - Bookmarks, A Free Game, & A Database
Recently a number of readers have been kind enough to write with ideas, comments, and questions. Some of the questions I have even been able to answer! I am going to review some of those issues and questions in this column, since they may well be of interest to others. Deleting Bookmarks The first is…
Mumbo Jumbo Shipping New Game "Equilibria"
Anyone searching for balance in their lives can end their quests with Equilibria, the new puzzle game from MumboJumbo, a subsidiary of United Developers, LLC. Equilibria starts with a group of multi-colored marbles on a playing field. As more move in from all sides, players click groups of three or more same-colored marbles to remove…
Pixar-Apple Connection: Apple Promotes Finding Nemo Game
M any people have wondered when Apple and Pixar would begin working together a bit closer. When Pixar chose an Intel-powered Linux rendering solution to replace its Sun render farm, some of those wondering thought never. Then again, Mac OS X is being used in the work flow at Pixar, so perhaps not all is…
Mac Gaming News - Blam! Positive Spin Media Releases BombSquad 1.1
Positive Spin Media’s BombSquad has been updated, bringing it to version 1.1. BombSquad is a self-described “rip-off of a classic game,” namely Minesweeper. New in version 1.1 is an Online Record Book, where you can compare your scores with other registered users. From Positive Spin Media: Positive Spin Media is pleased to announce the availability…
Violence In Games, Part II
Video games and Violent Youth, from Snowball.comis IGN, was written shortly after the Columbine Colorado High School Shooting, almost two years ago. It is still some of the finest commentary by a gamer for gamers on this topic. I strongly recommend reading it from start to finish. IN February, I read an article at the…
Monkey Byte Reminds Us Holidays Are All About The Games
Monkey Byte Development announces the Release of five new and updated games for immediate Online registration and delivery. No shipping Delays! No late holiday gifts! Today Monkey Byte brings you a new Astrorock 2000 v1.5, and Project Magellan for instant registration at MonkeyByte.com. Updates of Galactic Patrol, Boogaloopers, and Sentinels of Ceth also join the…