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Hot games for Q1/2006

April 1, 2006

Here’s a list of hottest games for first quarter of 2006 for me. This is based on number of plays, my enjoyment of the game and the novelty value, so new games tend to show up higher on the list. Einfach Genial — I played quite a lot of this in BSW, where it’s a [...]

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Gaming year 2005

December 30, 2005

Here’s my traditional year end review. However, I’ve worked the format a bit, hopefully so it’s more interesting for other people to read. I was inspired by Mark Johnson’s post back in 2004, so thanks to Mark! Here’s the deal: first I’ll list the 2005 publications I enjoyed. Then come older games I played for [...]

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Geek score

November 19, 2005

Since everybody’s counting their geek score, here’s mine: 75 played + 36 owned = 111 points. That’s, of course, of the The One Hundred games. I consider my played games count pretty good — there’s a bunch of games on the list I don’t care about — and even my owned game count is ok, [...]

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The One Hundred

October 26, 2005

Mark Jackson and Stephen Glenn are publishing the results of a project called The One Hundred, where they’ve asked 65 eurogamers their 15 favourite games ever, scored the results and compiled them into a list of 100 best games ever. The results are published one by one… It should make interesting reading for a while!

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How to recognise hot games

October 25, 2005

Let us enter the SuperGeek Zone. Everybody knows Huber happiness, right? It’s a metric of how much happiness you get out of a game. It’s calculated as (game rating — baseline) * average length in minutes * number of games played. Ratings and baseline are on scale from 1 to 10, baseline is typically 4.5. [...]

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