Recent content by UNHchabo

Nice to see the Australian Tourism industry sponsoring gaming content these days.

I haven't played in a while, but you should try it out -- one of the nice things about the multiplayer is that you can essentially do it like chess-by-mail; if you're waiting for your opponent to take their turn, you can log off, and it will send you mail when your opponent finishes, and is...

Each turn lasts 5 seconds; if you give a command to one of your guys that will take 15 seconds, you'll have the opportunity to change it at the end of every turn, or you can just let them keep going. Within that 5 seconds though, once you commit to your moves for the turn you can't redo any of...

Now try Zelda II. :) I played that game all the time as a kid, and only ever beat it using the Game Genie, and I still thought it was hard. Recently I went back and tried to play it with no cheatcodes or anything, and I'm struggling. I've been able to make it to Thunderbird, and nearly defeat...

Mother Brain may just be an interactive cutscne, but Super Metroid does have a final boss fight -- Ridley. That fight is hard enough that I died even on my last 100% playthrough a few months back. Sure, the game doesn't have the traditional level of difficulty of many games from the era...

See my previous post for a link to the full article written by Mike from Penny Arcade. Limiting "screen time" as a whole is a missed opportunity for raising the average quality of their screen time. Would you really give them the same limit, regardless of whether they're doing something...

And if you haven't seen it, he also had a long post [http://penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/04/08/i-spoke-at-our-pta-about-games] describing giving a talk at his son's PTA, answering questions parents had. I thought his answer for this was very good:

Seems realistic to me... Suburbanites drive by the charging station in their Escalades, while saying "I'm glad I live in an enlightened city that's so supportive of electric cars..."

McCoy starts in Season 5, replacing Ben Stone. The original L&O had a slump in the quality of their writing starting around Season 9, and came back up to quality with Season 18. There are many good episodes in there, but overall it's just not up to their usual standards. That's despite some...

And don't forget that she also collaborated with Gavin of Miracle of Sound on Legends of the Frost: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/miracle-of-sound/5537-Legends-of-the-Frost-featuring-Malukah

Sort of. Most GPUs allow Frame Queuing, and this makes it so that the GPU is always rendering a frame or two ahead of what's being displayed. I think most of the time you can configure that in the driver software, and some people speculate about the best setting to use for any particular...

For a time the Unskippables were posted to The Escapist's Youtube channel. This appears to be the most recent one: However, for the past few months the channel seems to only be limited to posting Zero Punctuation, Jimquisition, and Uncivil War.

One of the most annoying dubs I've come across is in the Polish movie "With Fire and Sword" -- the DVD available in the U.S. has English subtitles, but all of the non-Polish dialogue (Ukrainian, for instance) has been dubbed into Polish by a single guy who speaks monotonously: Skip forward to...

Most of the time people break the Racing Game genre into the subgenres of Arcade Racer and Racing Sim, but even then I feel it's more of a scale, with most people preferring games slightly to one side or the other rather than the extremes.

The original article says that less CGI is being used, not none. They built a bunch of practical sets and props, including some full-sized X-Wings, but unless someone's come up with a convincing way of using practical effects for laser blasts and lightsabers, there's going to be some CGI involved.