Category Archives: Game

Torment Diary 3

We meet a mad man and I have much difficulty in understanding his jumbled words. His name is Barking Wilder, he belongs to a faction Chaosmen (Xaositects) and according to Morte, they attract members who are crazy or chaotic enough like flies.

Barking Wilder hunches down on his knees and begins to rock back and forth, [...]

Torment Diary 2

Just outside the mortuary gate, I talk to a hunched guy with purplish green rash covering his chin and neck. He has a strange name, Pox, given by his parents who had cursed him by wishing a pox on their first born. Pox is also a deader collector and he mentions that only Dustmen and [...]

Torment Diary 1

I awake inside a mortuary and there is a bizarre floating skull that befriended me. His name is Morte. Morte tells me that the tattoos on my back come with directions, “that I will need to find my journal and Pharod“.
The Mortuary uses zombies as cheap labor.
The first living person we meet is a very [...]

SimCity Goes Open Source as Micropolis

From ars technica.
Will Wright’s original SimCity has now gone open-source under the GNU General Public License. Though the name and some code have been changed due to EA’s requirements, the core of the title remains intact and is now open for the public. This follows the inclusion of SimCity into the OLPC project.
Originally written in [...]

20 Free Games of 2007

From Grand Theft Auto 4.

America’s Army
Warsow
Wild Metal
Afterburner 3D
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
Flight of the Amazon Queen
King’s Quest 3
Maniac Mansion Deluxe
Ultima IV
Trackmania Nations
Swine
Xenon 2000
Harmotion
Retro River Raid
SWIV
Utawareru Mono
One Must Fall
Secret Maryo Chronicles
Scorched Earth
Winigolf

South Korea Opens Boot Camp to Confront Internet Addiction

From iht.com.
The compound - part boot camp, part rehab center - resembles programs around the world for troubled youths.
Drill instructors drive young men through military-style obstacle courses, counselors lead group sessions, and there are even therapeutic workshops on pottery and drumming.
South Korea boasts of being the most wired nation on earth. In fact, perhaps no [...]

Word Game to Help End World Hunger

FreeRice is a word game that tests your vocabulary, and for each word you get right, they will donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
Related: The Globalization of Hunger.