Category Archives: Video Games

X3: Terran Conflict

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Arthur

I‘ve been a long-time fan of Egosoft’s X3 series: A while ago, I used to play ‘X3: Reunion’, but I have slowly moved to the game’s successor ‘X3: Terran Conflict’ (company info, Wikipedia info and Metacritic reviews). Following in the … Continue reading →

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Dragon Age: Origins

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Arthur

I finished my first ‘Dragon Age’ (official site, Wikipedia) run earlier this weekend, so I thought a write-up was an excellent start of the year of 2010. You may have heard of ‘Dragon Age’, most likely because it received excellent … Continue reading →

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Games redux

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Arthur

I finally managed to find some time to play a couple of rounds of ‘Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword’ (2007) and while I’m hesitant to judge it right now, I’m not overly enthusiastic about it (previously.). Particularly considering the current … Continue reading →

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Elite 25

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Arthur

Via-via, I heard about the 25th anniversary of the computer game ‘Elite’ (Wikipedia), indeed as Wikipedia calls it, the seminal Space/Trading/Combat game released in September of 1984. It was first released for an Acorn BBC and over the years it … Continue reading →

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Arma 2

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Arthur

Earlier this month, I decided to get Arma 2 (official site), which is a tactical first person shooter produced by Czech game maker Bohemia Interactive. Originally, BI wrote Operation Flashpoint (which in turn was published by CodeMasters), but both companies … Continue reading →

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Nemesis of the 3rd kind

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Arthur

The Windows Vista sounds remind me of several sound effects of a game (Konami’s Nemesis III) I used to play on an MSX-2, a whole long time ago. Compared to the other games in that series, this episode was actually … Continue reading →

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FarCry 2

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Arthur

The only reason why I got FarCry 2 is that I find the concept of ‘”Sandbox” First Person Shooter’ games extremely compelling. I think the idea started with ‘Oblivion’ (discussed earlier, thanks Alfons), where players could wander about and around … Continue reading →

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X3: The return

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Arthur

Last week, I noticed that I had missed an update for ‘X3: Reunion’ (earlier on xsamplex), which should patch your X3 game up to 2.5 (if you’ve got X3 via Steam, it should come as an automatic update). Since the … Continue reading →

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Call Of Duty 4

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago I ended up buying ‘Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’ (Wikipedia). The game, as the title suggests, is situated in today’s world (instead of the usual WWII setting): the single player portion delivers a slightly … Continue reading →

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What, Salamander?

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Arthur

By coincidence, I ran into videos of a guy completing the MSX game ‘Salamander’ (Salamander at Wikipedia). The video is in 4 parts and doesn’t include the very first stage: movies 1, 2, 3 and the end stage, 4. I … Continue reading →

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Shoot-em-ups

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier this week, we were looking for co-op type of games for the XBOX: we weren’t looking for the typical ‘splitscreen’ first person shooter, so Halo and that kind was out. Eventually we settled on ‘Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks’, which … Continue reading →

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Ghost Recon (Gold Edition)

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Arthur

Actually, I wanted to play Medal of Honor, but since the (original) discs appear to be damaged, I ended up looking at a set of Ghost Recon discs. I bought this set of discs 3 or 4 years ago (for … Continue reading →

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Back to X3

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Arthur

With the intermittent (or rather lack of) Internet connectivity earlier this week, I decided to copy my savegame data back to the X3 game directory and play a couple of rounds. Fun: it took a while to get used to … Continue reading →

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