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mittens's Articles In Misc Games
June 12, 2004 by mittens
Time to catch up on posting links to reviews and such. FileFront posted my Manhunt review today, here's a really tiny snippet on this gory, twisted, and cool-for-an-hour-or-two stealth game: First of all, this isn’t an article about my search for a man to call my mate. In fact, it’s far from it. If anything, this review is about a bunch of ugly bastards searching for one man, and that man doing everything in his power to make said ugly bastards experience their last few seconds in brutal, p...
June 5, 2004 by mittens
So, I spent all Friday night working on this new project for FileFront , and I had a TON of fun with it. Be sure to check it out, it's called For Gamers Weekly ( http://forgamers.filefront.com/3 ) and, as you may gather from the name, it'll come out every week, written by me. I think it's a great read, but I'm a little biased, so go see it for yourself.
April 27, 2004 by mittens
Another one of my articles (this time on "Crushing Genre Boundaries" in games) has been posted over at FileFront.com . Here's a little snippet from that article: For the last seven years, I’ve played countless games that can be easily-classified as a certain genre without so much as a neuron in my sad excuse for a brain being disturbed. This is a good thing if you’re a die-hard fan of a genre, but, come on, how many different 3rd-person adventure games do need? Personally, moving crat...
April 14, 2004 by mittens
Go on over to http://www.theprodukkt.com/ and check out the 96k FPS demo they have up there (screenshots below), it's very cool to see what they've packed into such a compact little EXE (though the actual program ended up taking up around 360mb when it was running).
February 21, 2004 by mittens
At this very moment, thousands upon thousands of players are waging war across hundreds of maps in order to achieve the ultimate goal: a high kill count and a low death count. There are numerous games players can choose from that will allow them to achieve this goal, whether it be through cunning strategy in games like Warcraft 3 , Rise of Nations , or Command and Conquer Generals . Or it could be through a more action-packed game such as Call of Duty , Enemy Territory (which...