Portable Games I’d love to See

This idea has been germinating in my mind since I got my first portable: The DS Lite. When I got my Android phone, I decided to write this article, but never got around to it. Now I have a PSP as well, and I feel like I’ve got a fairly well rounded take on the [...]

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Top Fifty: 30-26

This week is all about the PC games. In looking over things, just about half the games on my top 50 list are PC games. As an aside, twenty-two of them have zombies in them.
List analytics aside, let’s look at the next five games.
30 - Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog Productions, Windows, 1997)
Despite being more than a [...]

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Variations on a Theme, Part V: Tactical Combat

This is the continuation of my series on the themes that I most enjoy in video games. Today, I’ll be writing about games that include really good tactical combat. It’s interesting to note that 50% of the games run on Dungeons and Dragons rules, and that 50% of them are turn-based, while the other 50% [...]

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