What are you currently installing/playing?

[AhabsOtherLeg]

although I haven't played wither Bioshock, I've had little choice but to come to know somethings about it. Anyway, I found this article about the new version to sum up my sense of it from looking at some trailers and gameplay videos... Good read here...

Somewhat surprisingly, there is a review of Bioshock Infinite in the New Statesman by no lesser a personage than Tom Watson MP - the man who did as much as anyone to break the News of the World phone-hacking story, and also dragged the Peter Righton case and the Elm Guest House elite paedophile ring back into the cold light of day. I got a bit of a shock when I saw his byline on it.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/201 ... k-infinite

I didn't much like the first Bioshock, or at least what little I played of it. Too much of a corridor shooter, and it was nearly impossible to die with all those resurrection machines around. Decent story, but not much of a game. Lacked challenge.

[dada]

In February I set the longest arcade game record. You can read my review of the game here:

http://animalizedmenwrigglingeerily.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-longest-arcade-marathon.html?m=1

And here is a fun article about arcade marathoning written by Michael Weinreb, a sportswriter at the Grantland website:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9053237/q*bert-video-game-marathoning-trend-aftermath-king-kong

[justdrew]

not actually playing (maybe later), but it's interesting...



http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy3/

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Drew, I've played demoes of Democracy 1 and 2, and found them very enjoyable and addictive. It basically boils down to the management of bar charts and spread sheets on an accelerated monthly basis, but it is still instructive and ... somehow fun.

You will soon find that you can't do one good thing for any group of people without pissing off at least three others. Whether the game was designed as a propaganda tool or not, it soon shows you why serving governments of all political persuasions are driven ineluctably to the political centre.

For a game about governments that ignores the political centre entirely, there is the unmistakable propaganda tool called "Papers, please!"

Which is quite enjoyable, and good fun i reckon.

http://dukope.com/

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[AhabsOtherLeg]

The demo of Eleusis is not bad either, if you want to solve a tiny fraction of a puzzle incorporated into a 3D adventure game set in a rural Greek village at night. Who doesn't want to do that?

http://www.eleusisgame.com/Demo.html

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[coffin_dodger]

Alas, I don't have a machine anywhere near capable of running this - but I'd sure like to play with it.

This game strikes me as a leap forward in video gaming. A simulation that is so realistic, (i.e. to the point of being subject to the law of physics) that it is indistinguishable from real life.