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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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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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.
Just a short post to brag that I did indeed get hold of a Wii on Friday morning… Along with Zelda, WiiPlay, Rayman and of course WiiSports. Fantastic stuff! More later.
Well… last Friday I couldn’t resist the Lite any longer… A week of testing and I must say that I’m very impressed with the improvements the big N has put into this edition of their famous DS. Everything from basic ergonomy and size, via screen brightness to battery life has gotten better. In the following paragraphs I’ll just restate what most other reviewers around the world have been shouting the last months.
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I was sent this link today, and felt it was worth a mention here in my gglob. Who would have thought that one of my favourite browsers would become available for my prefered gadget for gaming? Well apearently someone. Five seconds separating wandering internetless around outside a McDo and being online in all Opera’s userfriendly glory I won’t mind at all. Let’s hope that it will be available here in the west as well - at a reasonable price… (Sources say 30$… Hmmm…) At least this opens for more non-game-projects like Voice-over-IP and we can always wait for this to mature instead…
The good thing about writing a blogg, I guess, is that one has the opportunity to mean things. So; I say: “I think the controller for the Nintendo Revolution, as introduced yesterday at the Tokyo Game Show, looks extremely promising.”
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More DS-drooling. This time on Jam With The Band (or Band Brothers, as it’s (or might be?) called in the US.) This basicly turns your Nintendo DS into a music instrument.
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