Posts Tagged “Games”

The Modern Warfare Problem

by Nick.

There has been a disturbing trend with online PC games recently, they have all been taking on the more console like multi-player model. This model involves matching players together, then on the fly picking one of the players to be the “host” of the game effectively turning them into an impromptu sever. Modern Warfare 2 was the first PC game I have seen to employ this so that is going to be my focus.

Modern Warfare 2 Logo

Modern Warfare 2 is a great game but their decision to use this model for multi-player gaming creates many problems vs the traditional server client model. I am going to go over some of them here.

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

by Nick.

Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

I do not want to get into Game Reviews just because I do not play enough to have a comparison benchmark, and because there are tons of game reviewers already. With that said though I just had to atleast post about The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. This is not even really a review, because there is no way I can be objective about this game. It really is the thing that got me into computers as a kid, and has always been one of my favorite game series.