This is the third and final installment of the RuneScape 3 stories. Earlier, Harold Goldberg found himself at Peckforton Castle, somewhat near Manchester, England. But what was good and what was lacking in the game itself? BY HAROLD GOLDBERG As I stood gawking in this round, but dungeon-like environment, I spied three Jagex employees holding…
In Part One, the stage was set for a look into RuneScape 3. But does a hands-on Alpha gameplay help or hinder the Jagex message? BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Cheshire, England So there we were in this Game of Thrones-like locale outside of Manchester, England. In the bowels of PeckfortonCastle, I came upon a room…
BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Last week at the Essex Restaurant, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Neal Edelstein, the producer of “The Ring” (along with David Lynch’s excellent “Mulholland Dr.” TV movie). Mistakenly, I thought Edelstein had a game to show me. Instead, he brought an iTunes app called “Haunting Melissa.” Shot in Canada,…
In this episode of Full Circle we visited the Museum of Modern Art in downtown Manhattan, whose newest exhibit on Integrated Design includes 14 videogames. We also made some (pretty bad) jokes about Electronic Arts’ exclusive deal with Disney to make Star Wars videogames for the next few years, and talked about Polygon’s examination of…
BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Cheshire, England – Walking through the greenest of forests in Tarpoley, a rural town between Liverpool and Manchester, I pass daffodils and bees and newly unfolding ferns. I muck about the ruins of what may have been a cook house, and a singing blackbird flies out of a broken window. It’s the…
There’s an enormous amount of literature surrounding videogames. Much of it is what you’d call journalism, in the form of reviews, features and analyses, but there are also many excellent books that examine at length the capabilities and implications videogames as a medium or a few games in particular. That’s why we’re so excited that…