19 days ago
Rod Begbie : Spore: Turning Gold into Lead - Interesting decription of why Spore isn't as good a game as hoped. My interest in it certainly waned between playing around with the Creature Creator through to the game's release. [via] #
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28 days ago
nelson : Yahtzee on Spore - As always, Yahtzee gets quickly to the point of his reviews and nails it
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29 days ago
Richard Rutter : dConstruct reported by the BBC - BBC NEWS | Technology | Where do you think you are?.
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : Everybody's Wrong About Burn After Reading - Great post by Linda Holmes about the critics' reaction to "Burn After Reading". #
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2 month ago
nelson : Braid Review - Does a good job capturing why this game is so important. A bit spoilerish.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Handy comparison between Silverback and Screenflow - Silverback is better for usability testing; Screenflow is better for screencasts.
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : The New Republic Movie Review: "The Happening" - "This film is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts rather than review it." [via] #
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5 month ago
Richard Rutter : Silverback brings advanced usability testing to the Mac - Good early review of Silverback.
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5 month ago
nelson : Yahtzee on GTA4 - Everyone's favourite curmudgeon game critic
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5 month ago
nelson : Speed Racer review - Bad, but good. Review from an old friend of mine
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6 month ago
nelson : Google code review tool - Google's released something much like its internal code review tool
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6 month ago
nelson : Portishead Third review - The album's finally officially out, and it really is great
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6 month ago
nelson : GTA IV: 99/100 - Highest review scores yet. Seems deserved from the little I've seen by the game, I'm overwhelmed by its complexity and beauty
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6 month ago
wearehugh : tecosystems » The X300 Review, Part 1: Hardware, Windows and More
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7 month ago
wearehugh : Noodles' emptiness: Archos 705 media player
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 763 SXSW MP3s - a fun read, but surprisingly great for finding new music
Ethan Marcotte : Six-word reviews of 763 SXSW MP3s - By Paul Ford. Naturally. ∞
adamrg : Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford - I haven't made it through all the songs yet. This collection is EPIC.
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7 month ago
nelson : Burnout: Paradise review - Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation does a great bit of criticism
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Linkorama : plasticbag.org: On the OLPC Movement... - I expect them to decry the project as (at best) utopianist folly and (at worst) some form of western naïve semi-colonial oppression. Most of these arguments make no sense to me at all.
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9 month ago
nelson : Worst Wii games - Somewhat funny, somewhat insightful
Rod Begbie : 2007's Worst Wii Games - Thankfully, I was completely unaware that any of these games existed -- I had to do a quick search to make sure they were real, and not created purely for the purposes of this article! [via] #
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10 month ago
plasticbag : Zero Punctuation's review of Guitar Hero III is pretty extraordinary - As usual. Frankly, the man's a god and his tiny animations and cartoons are genius. Tiny little hands. Very cute.
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : RPS reviews Passage, an pixel art maze game about death - can a game that's only five minutes long make you sad? surprisingly, yes
nelson : Passage, a melancholy game - Bittersweet and poetic, the review does it justice
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11 month ago
wearehugh : Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - just once, i wish a device would fail for MY reasons. but no, this one will fail because it just plain sucks.
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11 month ago
nelson : Assassin's Creed failure - Nice bit of game criticism
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