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A small tribute to Tolkien adaptations in video games

Lately I've gotten really into installing older games and getting the most out of my powerful gaming PC with INI performance and FOV tweaks in addition to ultrawide and refresh rate hacks. I've had some mixed success, but some games have aged really well on newer hardware. Pandemic's the Saboteur - 2009 Final Fantasy VII … Continue reading Old Games on New Hardware and Ultrawide Gaming →

skeuomorph [skyoo-uh-mawrf] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for skeuomorph on Thesaurus.com noun an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another materialor by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery. Within the last few years there have been countless articles with the explicit statement that skeuomorphism (prepare to see this word a lot in this article) is now dead, but is this really the case? There seems to be a bit … Continue reading Skeuomorphism – A Digital Metaphor for Comforting Analogs →

Just random pictures of my base creations and interesting things I find playing the game 2021 2018

  Some of my gaming adventures this year. I will be continually adding pictures to this gallery    

    Vampyr is a game that exceeded my expectations enough that I actually felt myself wanting more. In fact, there were moments of the game that came so close to actual notes of greatness that I found myself wishing they had more finely tuned the overall game itself.  The premise of the game is … Continue reading Vampyr – Understated Vampire Horror →

Hollywood has become increasingly creatively bankrupt and the game industry could follow, but there is still hope. Over the decades we’ve seen a huge paradigm shift in how we like to experience digital entertainment; the complex and big budget video-games we have today are certainly not the games that your father played. Much like Hollywood … Continue reading A Brave New World of Gaming →