Tag: Gaming
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To the most moving gaming experience made yet
I am told that in Papua New Guinea, the lay of the land and the unique way in which Time has unfolded has meant that on a small strip of land, there are hundreds of ways of life and ideas about what it means to be human. And most of them don’t intersect. It used […]
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The Biggest Problem with the Gaming Industry (amongst others)
Let me begin with a parallel. Ms. Rowling wrote 7 Harry Potter books. Their popularity made her one of the richest people in the UK. But that’s the aside. The real story is how she made a mockery of every pundit predicting that the age for children and adults consuming printed books and literature is […]
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Assassin’s Creed & the true future of gaming
It took me a long time to get over what I call the “Post-Diablo Condition”. I define this as the condition where you have played Diablo from Level 1 to Level 13 and more, at least 4 times, broken 2 mice, increased your near-sightedness by at least a degree, and had nightmares about Baal and […]
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It’s nostalgia time (or not!)
I had a long weekend. And I used it to clock approximately 24 hours of Assassin’s Creed 2. I was glued. And hooked. And completely blown away. The History books will prove that with the coming of the PS3, PC gaming officially crossed the tipping point which would lead to its rapid demise. It is […]
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Childhood Addiction
It was a daily ritual. I would walk over to Karan’s house and sneak in through the back door so as not to disturb his parent’s afternoon siesta. And we would tiptoe into the carpeted ‘computer room’. One of us would switch on the UAE imported a/c and wait for the hum to settle. Then […]
Between 2 Sips 