Before moving to France I remember discussions we had amongst my board gaming friends in Bergen on “Could it be possible, and more importantly practical and enjoyable, to continue playing board games over the internet?” Sure one can play games online here and there, in real time, like Puerto Rico or Go, or even at slower pace, like Through the Desert, but the experience remains entirely virtual. The mouse and keyboard can hardly replace the wooden pieces found in a real game… What if we could use webcams and multiple copies of the real game in question? (Technically this has been done for ages with correspondence chess.) What kind of games could one play? Would the the game need to be a game like Caylus or Puerto Rico, or even Go, where all the information is open to all the players, or could one devise a system to transmit hidden information - like cards drawn and such to players afar by for example having someone at the “main game” showing them to a webcam? This has so far remained an experiment of thought, and we’ve continued to play virtual games when needed. Until now…
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Being a big fan of games on both boards and consoles, I’ve been following closely the latest joint venture of Sony, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast; The Eye of Judgment. This is basically a tactical card game that can be played using the PlayStation3 to help out with the book-keeping and spicing up the game with battle animations. The result looks very much like the chess-like game seen in Star Wars - parodied so brilliantly somewhere in Season 2 of Fururama. Anyway, here’s some initial impressions of the game.
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Weapons in this case is the Playstation 3. PS3 among friends. (And foes.) My old department at the University of Bergen has realised that they can use them to do research on in all their parallel processing power glory. I stumbled upon this article today proclaiming it (in Norwegian).
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(Nintedo begged for this play on words, no?)
Anyway, one of my favourite multinationals starting with N launched their first game for the dear Wii playable on the Internet (if one don’t count the Opera Browser and the Voting Channel, of course) yesterday with the game “Mario Strikers Charged Football”. Not without its share of trouble here in France.
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As often here in gglob I’ll start this post as well with some ancient history; on my first cell phone, the trusty Nokia 3310, I had only one interesting game. A game called Bantumi - “African chess”. (Known as Mancala outside Finland.) This was as good as mobile gaming got. Then.
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I bet there are lots of people in my shoes these days; never having owned a ‘Cube before, but suddenly, because of a friendly white little fellow, find themselves with a golden opportunity to catch up on some of the many brilliant exclusives the platform has fostered.
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Gratulerer Johannes!
With the batteries in the red on the my most used Wiimote I came across this gadget. A good idea. My general battery charger has just too much work these days, so my lazy self uses throwawayable batteries… Akk.
The first thing I did after unpacking the Wii was to … let it do an update of it’s software. That took forever. At least in subjective time. After that it had to go through another even bigger update. The teasing. Then it was time to start Wii’ing!
Weirdly enough it was not the extremely anticipated new Zelda game that was the first game my console saw, nor the zanily quirky pythonish Rayman contre les Lapins Cretins, but the reasonably quirky WiiSports. After a brief session in the Mii-creator (Homage in flash can be found here.) my brother and I was ready for some not so serious sporting.
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