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Archive for January, 2008

My Knighthood Story So Far

Posted by GBGames on January 31st, 2008

Knight Corvus sent me an invitation to join him in his army, and I could not refuse. I joined him as a squire, intent on moving up through the ranks of Knighthood. Of course, I had my own castle to run, and soon enough, I had built up a formidable army of my own. The […]

Racism in Phantom Hourglass?

Posted by GBGames on January 28th, 2008

About a month ago I purchased The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS. Since I don’t currently have a TV, my other consoles are useless to me, and the game sounded fun.
I came across the Isle of Frost, and it turned out that there were two races of people here. The Anoukis […]

Darn Internet…

Posted by GBGames on January 26th, 2008

You know what’s frustrating? You find a blog post that was interesting, then someone comments on said blog post, and you reply to that comment.
And then you forget what blog it was on. Because Google doesn’t let you search for comments in blogs, it’s pretty much impossible to remember where you were, especially if your […]

YASD, the First for 2008

Posted by GBGames on January 16th, 2008

I was a tourist, exploring the dungeon with my yet-unnamed feline companion, when I found a ring. I put it on, and it turned out to be a ring of invisibility! How awesome is that!
I managed to get fairly far at a low experience level because enemies just couldn’t find me until I already hit […]

SimCity Source Is Now Under the GPL!

Posted by GBGames on January 15th, 2008

Found through TIGSource, which found it through Fear and Loathing:
This is the binary and source code for Micropolis (A.K.A. “S*mC*ty”: see the GPL License and additional terms, below), which is released under the GPL.
The One Laptop Per Child laptop is going to have an official and original SimCity game available for it. Don Hopkins […]

Oh, and Happy New Year!

Posted by GBGames on January 7th, 2008

It’s been a week since January 1st, and I just moved into a new apartment. Yes, I know I was supposed to move in August, and I did, but then there were problems with that place, so now I moved again. I’ve been in crunch at the day job as well. All of this conspired […]