Author Archives: Meg

Speaking Simlish

I play a lot of games. I also read about games, and think about games, and work on games, and write about games. Sometimes my game development work gets in the way of my games journalism, and my editor at Hardcore … Continue reading

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Find The Lamp, The Oil, and The Wick

 I wrote about that adventure game with hidden object elements, Dark Arcana, for Hardcore Droid. I enjoyed playing it, and would recommend the game, but couldn’t resist a little snarking at hidden object cliches.   In a typical HO game, players … Continue reading

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Made Glorious By These Sons of York

…making really elaborate jokes hinging on the Battle of Bosworth’s Parking Deck or Alas, why would you heap this tarmac on me? … Continue reading

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The Love of My (Other) Life

The Love of My (Other) Life, by Traci L. Slatton, is a cute sci-fi romance. Brian chases Tessa all around Manhattan, telling her she’s his wife in an alternate universe, and making really terrible physics jokes. When Tessa isn’t trying … Continue reading

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Recent Posts

Two recent pieces on Indie Game Magazine on serious sim games. First, I loved the concept of Auroch Digital’s relevant sim Endgame Syria, even if I ultimately thought the execution was simplistic and somewhat lacking. Then, I broke my rule against posting … Continue reading

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Zenonia Hates Me

New post on Zenonia 5 on Hardcore Droid: Zenonia 5, Gamevil’s latest installment in the Zenonia series, is a fantasy action RPG for Droid.  Players enter an engaging fantasy world, with charming characters, oddly adorable monsters to fight, an epic … Continue reading

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Winter Wedding

Just before Christmas, Harold and I went to the wedding of a high school friend in my New Jersey hometown. I basically cried from when we sat down,  because I always cry at weddings, and also because I’m over thirty … Continue reading

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Because Science!

We are not wired to control our emotions. We now know that the amygdala can send signals to the prefrontal region of the brain, where the orbitofrontal cortex is located, but the prefrontal region cannot send signals directly to the … Continue reading

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On The Future

I’ve started contributing to Geek Magazine recently, and my first piece is about future tech. It’s exciting to think about a pocket app that learns about what you like and finds it for you, and, on a larger scale, about omnipresent … Continue reading

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Hidden Object Adventures

Harold came in while I was sprawled on the couch, immersed in a new game for a Hardcore Droid review. “Are you playing a hidden object game?” he asked, with a certain amount of shock in his voice. Harold and … Continue reading

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