Giant Bomb Unplugged, a.k.a TheBeast's Introduction to Board Games is a blog series intended to introduce the Giant Bomb community to board gaming. I'll try to introduce a couple of games in every edition, hopefully there'll be something that interests you somewhere. Enjoy! For this board game post, I tried to pick a few games out of my collection that are more likely to appeal to the video-gam...
Giant Bomb Unplugged, a.k.a TheBeast's Introduction to Board Games is a blog series intended to introduce the Giant Bomb community to board gaming. I'll try to introduce a couple of games in every edition, hopefully there'll be something that interests you somewhere. Enjoy! You’ve played Monopoly. You’ve experienced the seven hour campaign to take over Mayfair, that one perfectly nice person th...
Firstly, hope you all had a great christmas - and all the best for the new year! As much as I put off writing these things, I'm glad when something comes along to convince me to get on with it. In this case, it's my Best of 2010 list. TheBeast's Best of 2010 10. Game Dev Story When I set out to write this list, I never imagined I'd be adding this game to it, but then I looked down at my iPad at...
My prose can be somewhat unwieldy at the best of times, the primary reason my attempts at blog posts never get past the first sentence. Here's my attempt at solving that while potentially making for a more confusing reading experience by distilling this blog format in to a bulleted list of vaguely associated thoughts. I'll let your own creative minds weave them in to whatever format you can bes...
Red Rings I knew it was coming when the other half started complaining of distortions and tearing when she was playing Kameo; not that knowing made it any easier when I heard a shout of "The Xbox isn't working!" across the house on Saturday evening. Yeah, so the glowing red ring showed its face. I was annoyed, as one would be, but at the same time somewhat proud that the thing had survived 3 ye...
It's a phrase that's been overused and misused to the point where it's vacant of any distinct meaning, but I'll go ahead and use it anyway; this year was a good year for games . Publishers like EA and Ubisoft pushed out more quality titles than we've seen for years and new releases from acclaimed developers such as Rockstar and Valve shot up the charts. With the continuing popularity of 'casual...
Tree 's appear a lot in games. Somehow, the Giant Bomb community seems to have acknowledged this fact. Clearly, the most important element of Superman Returns. Apparently, if I wanted to see a tree in a game, I could play Virtual Bart on the SNES, or I could just reinstall my copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon - but is knowing that important to me? No, not really. Do I want to spend 30 seconds loadin...
Beautiful! Yes. We did it. The wiki submission queue is now below 9,000 submissions - we've been working at it for days and it's finally dropping, quite signifcantly at that! The staff cleared out a load of duplicate submissions which cut the queue down to about half - so expect to see your turnaround decreasing rapidly very very soon!. Forgive my inarticulate writing, it's early, I didn't slee...