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Jim Franklin
July 11, 2011

Sim Brother Experiment Day 3: Hating Friends and Irritating People

The clock ticked over to 00:01 and four members of the household were still up. Obsidian was lost in his painting, Lucifer was engrossed with something on the computer, and Diane and Eddie were still playing the arcade games in…

Age of Conan: Unchained. Now free-to-play

Funcom, apparently not wanting to be left behind, have decide to make Age of Conan free-to-play under the name ‘Age of Conan: Unchanged’. They’ve tried free timed trials of a week; then they tried a ‘capped at level 20’ method.…

Jim Franklin
June 30, 2011

Sim Brother Experiment Day 2: The Skinny Dipping Angel

Margaret and Chase were the first to wake. The high quality of the beds meant that they’d had enough sleep by 4am. Margaret walked over to the computers, logged on and started chatting to someone; probably an insomniac at that…

Erik The Wanderer
June 29, 2011

Skyrim NPCs Are a Development Priority

According to Bethesda’s oracle and resident director, Todd Howard, the absolute focus of the Skyrim team right now is improving interaction between players and Skyrim NPCs. “The big things for us are still — and we still struggle with —…

Jim Franklin
June 28, 2011

‘Prototype’ xBox 360 Game Review

Following on from the huge enjoyment I experienced from playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, I delved once again through the xBox 360 Platinum Hits shelf at my local video game score. With yet more sage advice from a mate, I picked…

Jim Franklin
June 27, 2011

Sims 3 Sim-Brother Experiment

Akin to the popular reality TV program, Big Brother, I’m setting up a little Sims 3 experiment. I’ve created eight stereotypical Sims, I’ve turned up the AI and now I’m going to throw them in to a large house together…

Jim Franklin
June 27, 2011

Sim Brother Experiment Day 1: It Begins

The first day of the Sim Brother Experiment. ***** Almost across the board, the first thing the house-guests did was to start gaping and gasping at the objects of the house. From the windows down to the big-screen television, the…

Jim Franklin
June 23, 2011

Have a few ‘Words with Friends’

Work has been slowing down recently, and there’s one of two things I could have done about it. I could have diligently, and pro-actively sought out new tasks at work, maybe even sorted out all those things that have needed…

Erik The Wanderer
June 18, 2011

Could Elder Scrolls Be Developed By Another Company?

If you’ve ever wondered if an external developer could do better with a Bethesda game than Bethesda, there’s the very smallest of chances that Elder Scrolls could be pawned off in the future. That’s if Todd Howard’s words are to…

Jim Franklin
June 16, 2011
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Sims 3 Review: It’s a Control Freak Thing

Created by EA Games, Sims 3 is arguably the biggest and best life simulation game available these days. In fact I’m struggling to even think of another one. The newest add-on pack ‘Generations’ provides more life events for your Sims…