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Tag: computer game

CIPC #291: Kona

Posted on September 27, 2022October 6, 2022

Kona is a 2017 adventure game with a horror theme. I have not played it, but it seems a perfectly middle-of-the-road game. Not particularly good,…

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CIPC #271: Sable maze: Norwich Caves

Posted on May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…

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CIPC #202: The manhole

Posted on December 23, 2020

2020 has become the year of video games. People have been at home rather more than usual and, naturally, they spend it playing Fortnite, Among…

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CIPC #182: Broken sword: The shadow of the Templars

Posted on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020

One upon a time, there were point-and-click adventure games. Sure, the genre still exists, but in the late eighties and the early nineties, when home…

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CIPC #112: Civilization IV

Posted on March 26, 2019

Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that.…

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CIPC #35: Age of Empires II

Posted on September 19, 2017

Age of Empires II was in its heydays the most popular real-time strategy game in the world and this popularity has lasted. The original game…

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CIPC #3: Port mortem

Posted on January 24, 2017

“Post mortem” is the slightly macabre but very apt term chess players use for the after-game analysis with one’s opponent, where one looks at the…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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