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Game journalism

Its been a while since I´ve updated the blog. What happened was…. exams. I’ve been very busy writing about game theory, actually so busy that I’ve written what surmounts to a thick book this semester. Actually I’ve written 250 pages of theory. In retrospect that seems very crazy – i… Continue »

The Hero Quest barbarian

Conan has always been the zenith of masculinity for me. I’m not talking about the movies with Arnold in them. Those are, besides being very kitsch now a days, not very interesting. I am however talking about the old comic books and the original stories from the hand of Robert… Continue »

Art: Dragon Age: Origins

Art from the game Dragon Age: Origins Continue »

RPG systems

I have been playing a lot of RPG games lately. I finished Mass Effect 2, a Fallout 3 replay, and am about to finish Final Fantasy XIII. Also i am actively playing Torchlight, Borderlands and Overlord II at the moment. All these games share many of the well known RPG… Continue »

Final Fantasy XIII Cutscenes

If you follow me on twitter you know that i have become quite addicted to Final Fantasy XIII. As i have blogged about this is the first time i am playing a Japanese RPG, and when the initial discomfort of playing a new genre had surpassed i started noticing parts… Continue »

Left 4 Dead 2

A while back i made a post about Left 4 Dead 2 and about how i found it to be a bit of a crappy release. At the time i didn’t really see many differences between L4D and L4D2. Now i have played the game some more, and participated in… Continue »

Simulation and realism

I was reading a post over on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun blog about a new sniper game coming out this june. Apparently the goal of this game is to create a “true” sniper experience focusing on realism. This got me thinking a bit about the term realism as it is… Continue »

Warhammer Quest

In this final post about Warhammer i want to turn my attention to the Warhammer game i have probably played the most. As you all know i have blogged about HeroQuest before. HeroQuest was the game the let me to play Warhammer Quest which can be said to be an… Continue »

Warhammer digital

In my last two posts i have talked about the Warhammer Fantasy setting, and the Warhammer 40K setting, and about how i think that those two settings are very well put together. I have also talked about how i find that the basic concepts and ideas of the settings have… Continue »

Warhammer 40K

Warhammer 40K is a different beast than Warhammer Fantasy. It bears many resemblances to its fantasy counterpart, yet, it is remarkably different. The main theme from Warhammer Fantasy is still there. The universe is about to be obliterated by chaos, and a few races are desperately trying to survive. The games I… Continue »