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World of Goo

Posted 11-06-2008 at 06:06 PM by Cristiano (Full Frontal Nerdity)

In the midst of all the multimillion dollar high profile video game releases right now, it is nice to find an unexpected masterpiece from a small, independent game producer. That game, World of Goo, is an incredible addictive puzzle game with an oddball sense of humor and compelling gameplay.

The basic concept is you use balls of goo to build a path to a faucet to suck them up into. The balls stick together and you can arrange them in a variety of ways. Physics also come into play...
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A Revolution in Console Game Development Part 2

Posted 10-31-2008 at 02:28 AM by Cristiano (Full Frontal Nerdity)



Way back in February, I wrote about how excited I was about the preview that Microsoft showed of their XBOX Live Community Games initiative, which allows any game developer to develop for the XBOX 360 and have their game made available to millions of players through XBOX Live.

With the release today of the XNA Game Studio 3.0, along with the forthcoming release on...
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A Revolution in Console Game Development

Posted 02-25-2008 at 10:02 PM by Cristiano (Full Frontal Nerdity)


As game systems become more and more advanced, game development has become much more expensive - mainstream releases are multi-million dollar productions. If there is not a guaranteed market for a game, it will probably never see the light of day on a console because the costs are just too high and companies like to play it safe. That is a shame, because it means so many types of games will never get made or experienced by a wide group of players....
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Exit

Posted 02-16-2008 at 04:44 PM by Cristiano (Full Frontal Nerdity)



Well, I have been sidetracked from posting this week because of the server move, but I took sometime today to try out a game I had not heard of before called Exit. It's an XBOX Live game that was originally on the PSP. It's a puzzle game basically, which combines elements of Lemmings, Prince of Persia, and other games, but is very unique. You have to rescue people from disasters by getting...
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Woot 1000 points finally!

Posted 02-08-2008 at 04:32 PM by Cristiano (Full Frontal Nerdity)

This is totally embarrassing, but I am happy that I have finally unlocked enough achievements in games to have a Gamerscore over 1000 on XBOX 360. I didn't get there with any lame ones either, I worked hard to get those points. Oblivion Game of the Year Edition set me over the top - I decided I wanted to play it in all its high def glory instead of dealing with the technical issues on the PC, so I am finally playing it. I got 50 points for completing the tutorial sequence, and combined with my surprising...
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