Tag: game

  • Cosmic Encounter

    Earlier this month I bough a highly recommended game called Cosmic Encounter. A classic of thirty years, Cosmic Encounter is a negotiation strategy game set in space. The game has apparently influenced games such as the Dune board game (which shares designers), and Magic The Gathering. In Cosmic Encounter, players choose a color with five planets […]

  • If I Can’t Game, It’s Not My Revolution: International Socialist Organization crashes Gamers meeting

    I wrote to the editor on North Texas Daily. On the night of Oct 21 at Pohl Recreation Center I witnessed an ugly scene between two campus organizations. Representatives and members of International Socialist Organization invited themselves into Room 207, reserved and occupied by UNT Gamer’s Club, to inform the attendees of the session that […]

  • E3 Report 2009

    This is a week late due to studying for the GRE. I missed a whole lot of stuff due to preparing  the GRE: A-Kon, Isis, and E3. Now I’m free and ready to kick Dallass. Microsoft Conference Highlights: Project Natal – How are you supposed to play a FPS with this? I imagine one will […]

  • HD doesn’t mean anything if you don’t see color

    http://static.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.3.swf ZP:50 Cent Blood in the Sand (FAIL, dingo ate his baby) http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=46773 HAWP:On Sexism(close, but not cigar) I maintain that talking about race and gender is impossible in current terms within the gaming community. The discussion seems to offer nothing but inane “color-blind” and “gender-blind” explanations about “moving on” that do nothing to address […]