Archive for February, 2010
Building Blocks and Boxes
Puzzle games come in all shapes and sizes, really; classification criterion is quite lax these days. In addition, game development has advanced and improved so much, that it is very difficult to find a game that falls strictly in just one category. It is not unusual, for example, to find a shooting, action game that [...]
A Look at Board Games
When I think of board games, I always end up thinking of chess or checkers, for some reason. It is hard not to think of a sheet of wood, cardboard, paper, etc., with or without markings, for some special use (such is the definition of board, at least according to Dictionary.com); it’s in their name. [...]
Classic Brick Games
When somebody says “classic” in certain contexts, there are things that always come to mind. It might be a name, it might be a smell, a sound, an image. It might be a concept, an idea that we somehow relate to the word that was just uttered. Something that we identify with that; a connection [...]
Kids Games?
As part of my efforts in order to review BGames in a comprehensive way, I started exploring the Kids Games section. I expected something not unlike Dress-Up games: simple graphics, simple premises, simple concepts. What I found was a pleasant surprise, with varied overtones. My first approach to the section was Airport Mania. This is [...]
Superhero Action Games
It has been said before, and I will say it again: I am a geek. I am a HUGE geek. And as such, one of my duties is to be hopelessly devoted to comic books (for an intensive course on what being a geek entails, see The Big Bang Theory). I love them, they are [...]
Dress-Up Games at BGames
If I had to identify what first caught my attention once I accessed BGames, I would have no problem pointing it out: the dress-up games section. For starters, I wasn’t familiar with the concept at all. I remember seeing something similar in some distant cousin’s CD full of games for small children. However, there already [...]
Weekly Misc Games!
Everybody loves shopping. I mean, who hates buying stuff for oneself? No one! However, there are people who dislike (some more strongly than others) going shopping. In most cases that is due to the fact that they have absolutely no idea of what they are looking for, and they completely hate the whole set of [...]
Favorite Shooting Games of the Week
It is a highly accepted truth that if you want to have fun at home, playing computer games, there are few better ways to spend your time than shooting at stuff. The wide range of possibilities available ensure a variety of premises that show that there truly is a game for everyone. Today’s reviews are [...]
Sports Games Featured at BGames.com
Motivated by the fun that was Ragdoll Goalie, I decided I should try BGames sports games. However, I wasn’t ready for the incredible variety the site has to offer. How could I properly choose a tennis or a soccer game, amongst all the possibilities? So I didn’t. I figured I would have to pick a [...]
Favorite Games Of The Week
Today’s featured games selection is pretty arbitrary. As a matter of fact, one could argue that lists are always arbitrary, no matter how allegedly random the items may be: if a human being is involved in the process, items are always picked following some kind of criterion, which may or may not be conscious. Therefore, [...]