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Unusual Games: Faunasphere – an MMO + Facebook crossover

Between all of the endless Korean and Chinese, umm – let me put it straight – grind feasts, there are some unusual games that are trying the uncharted waters of niche MMO market And by an MMO i mean here a game, that has graphics and some basic structure, where many players can interact at the same time. By this criteria the game by Big Fish Games (a well known developer of casual Facebook games) is an MMO indeed. By any other means… it’s a mix of MMO, casual and artificial life genres (and a-life genre haven’t been seriously played with since Creatures series by Creature Labs/Mindscape), so this is quite a special game i’m going to look at – and it’s called Faunasphere. (more…)

Famous Fails: Guild Wars review

This is my first post in the “Famous Fails” list (not mentioning the introductory post i wrote prior to this one). In short, i am going to write about the famous, well-rated games that are liked by many – and found almost totally unplayable by myself. This is my (not so) humble opinion, so you’d welcome to throw shit at it only if you have some cool arguments to prove me wrong.

Join the millions of players worldwide who have become enraptured by Guild Wars®, the award-winning, epic game that revolutionized online role-playing.
Enraptured? Oh, you bet i was! (more…)

New Facebook game “Zen garden” – a new star or a new fail?

It has come to my attention that a new game named “Zen Garden” has been released on Facebook. The new players are coming to see a shiny graphics and a fresh Japanese-style-flower-garden-farm game play.
Would this particular game be a hit?
I’ve played it for months in Russian social network VKontakte long before it was released for Facebook and i must tell you some really important stuff concerning this particular game and its developers. (more…)