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Game of the Week: First Person Tetris
First Person Tetris is yet another take on the most famous Russian computer game. It’s a flash rendition of the classic, where the biggest difference is the fact that the whole world spins around the...
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Game of the Week: Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
Finished the second Layton game yesterday. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (or Diabolical Box as it is known in the United States) continues the puzzlefest and provides a good ten hours worth of...
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Game of the Week: Mass Effect
Finished Bioware’s Mass Effect a couple of weeks ago, since playing the direct sequel without having seen how the original ends felt odd. Mass Effect is a space opera role-playing game where the...
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Game of the Week: Plants vs. Zombies
I bought PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies for the ipod Touch to serve as in-flight entertainment on the trip to Japan in April. While the game was definitely a good timewaster, it took me almost half a year...
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Game of the Week: Angry Birds
Rovio’s Angry Birds is a bona fide finnish software success story. Angry Birds features a feud between the birds and pigs. The birds assault the pigs holdings with the aid of the player and a big...
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Game of the Week: Alan Wake
The “other” big finnish video game of 2010 is Remedy’s Alan Wake. The follow-up to 2003 Max Payne 2 took a long time coming – and the delay shows. Both in the occasionally outdated graphics and the...
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Game of the Week: Halo:Reach
Finished Halo:Reach, Bungie’s last chapter of the saga the other day. The game is actually a prequel to the original trilogy, it details events up to the point of the sacking of the Pillar of Autumn,...
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Game of the Week: Mallorca (née Finca)
Mallorca (originally, and outside Scandinavia: Finca) is the winner of the finnish board game award of 2010. Bought it in January and have enjoyed quite a few games with it. Mallorca is a german-style...
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Game of the Week: Tiny Wings
Andreas Illiger‘s Tiny Wings dethroned the long-reigning Angry Birds from the top of the iphone charts. The subject is quite alike, a cartoony bird with a simple physics engine. Though Tiny Wings packs...
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Game of the Week: Mass Effect 2
Finished Bioware’s Mass Effect 2 a short while ago. I liked the original a lot, and the sequel was an improvement over it in several ways. The plot doesn’t really continue where it left off in part 1....
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Game of the Week: Frontierville
Zynga’s FrontierVille is a semi-multiplayer social game that combines their previous hit FarmVille with american history. FrontierVille begins innocently enough, with a small cottage and a couple of...
View ArticleGame of the Week (future tense): Dwarf Fortress
It’s been a very low-impact gaming summer thus far. One of the things on the table to be picked up sooner or later is definitely Dwarf Fortress.
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Game of the Week: TinyHack
TinyHack is the most abstract game in a long while. It boasts the largest pixels in a roguelike, ever, and that’s about it, everything else is hidden inside the large colored squares. The red is a...
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Game of the Week: Ticket to Ride (on iPad)
Days of Wonder’s Ticket to Ride is amongst the greatest of gateway games into the world of new german boardgames. Short, easily understandable and combining randomness and skill in decent measures....
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Game of the Week: 7 Wonders
Antoine Bauza’s 7 Wonders has won a lot of the boardgaming awards this year, and for a good reason. The game plays fast and remains random enough while rewarding bits of skill and strategic thinking...
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Game of the Week: Arkham Horror
Played a couple of games of Arkham Horror during the summer, and became even more convinced of two things: it’s a good game, and the tons of fiddly bits in the box are a nightmare to keep in order....
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Game of the Week: 1000 Heroz
Red Lynx’s 1000 Heroz is a game that lasts a thousand days. At least. The game is updated with new content daily, and thus there will be close to three years worth of new playing for the princely sum...
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Game of the Week: Trainyard
Matt Rix’s Trainyard was one of the very first games I purchased for the iPad, and one that I still enjoy occasionally. Trainyard is a puzzle game where the aim is to build tracks to get various train...
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Game of the Week: Carcassonne: Traders and Builders (for iPad)
The Codingmonkeys’ fabulous iPad rendition of Carcassonne has been updated with the Traders and Builders expansion. The second expansion adds a two new dimensions to the game: trade and repeated turns....
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Game of the Week: Hill Climb Racing
Fingersoft’s Hill Climb Racing was one part of the finnish trifecta a couple of weeks ago: then a finnish game was on top of the three categories in the Appstore (most downloads for free [this game]...
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