games

2003-03-28 — Vincent Leeuw

"I wonder if it's called Epoch…"

Invest $800 get over $350 million back. How? Simply travel back from the year 2256 in your own time-machine, with full knowledge of the stock-market. Sounds …

2003-03-31 — Vincent Leeuw

Squenix

GAME Watch helpfully posted Square Enix' new logo, which seems to have been borrowed from the previous Square logo. In fact; the influence of the old Enix logo …

2003-04-01 — Vincent Leeuw

FFX2 Movie Fest

While we wait for the inevitable April Fools jokes to arrive, the Korean Videogamer X provides us with images and h-u-g-e downloadable movies of Final Fantasy …

2003-04-01 — Vincent Leeuw

April Fools #1 & #2?

I want to believe this one so badly it hurts... Yet Sugoi! might have me by the balls with this one considering the date. Nintendo is "apparently" making …

2003-04-01 — Vincent Leeuw

April Fools link list

This is a central list for all April Fools news, previous offerings are also included. Bungie | Bungie.net Pro Service CubeZone | Rareware returns to Nintendo …

2003-04-07 — Vincent Leeuw

Tales of RPG

Namco has opened up their Japanese homepage for their upcoming GameCube RPG Tales of Symphonia. Together with Giftpia (cover) and Final Fantasy Crystal …

2003-04-07 — Vincent Leeuw

Metroid Prime (NGC)

Let's get one thing straight before we even start. Metroid Prime doesn't beat Super Metroid. With that out of the way, let's start properly. Metroid Prime is …

2003-04-10 — Vincent Leeuw

DDR + XBL

It's about time something good was announced for the Xbox. In the last couple of months I've turned rather glum about the console's future, as it seemed to …

2003-04-10 — Vincent Leeuw

Dokapon DX is evil?

This has got to be one of the most disturbing Japanese commercials yet. While not explicit or anything, it's just scary. Keep your eyes and ears on the guy at …

2003-06-30 — Vincent Leeuw

PUGA

De Power Unlimited Game Awards> worden aanstaande vrijdag gehouden en beloven deze keer heel wat grootser te worden. Aangemoedigd door het succes van vorig …

2003-07-01 — Vincent Leeuw

Ngamer

Na het ongelukkige verloop van n3 Nintendo Magazine, is er dan eindelijk weer een nieuw Nintendo blad: Ngamer (en dat deze nu eens eindelijk wel geluk en …

2003-07-02 — Vincent Leeuw

SNG

Helaas, Van Gend & Loos was vandaag langs geweest, maar er was niemand thuis. Ik zal dus nog een dagje moeten wachten voordat ik mijn Netwerk Adapter voor …

2008-05-05 — Vincent Leeuw

Chrome Hounds as fusion cuisine

Dawdling on the subject of Player-VS.-Player forms for MMOs with a colleague last week, we took a look at some of the currently available forms. One of the …

2008-05-08 — Vincent Leeuw

Grand Theft Auto IV's reality bites

One of the things that could always be used in defence of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, was it was not taking anyone or anything seriously. The …

2008-05-26 — Vincent Leeuw

The Social MMO

Social networks have quickly become a web staple. To such an extent that with each new one you start asking yourself whether it has any use at all. While …

TCOS developer walkthrough 2008-06-24 — Vincent Leeuw

TCOS developer walkthrough

This is one of Gametrailer.com’s videos for The Chronicles of Spellborn. It’s a rather strange sensation to see something you have worked on for over a year …

2008-08-08 — Vincent Leeuw

PixelJunk Eden - controls from Hell?

For some reason PixelJunk Eden (PS3) is causing a whole set of different reactions than I expected. Personally I love the game, though I did reminisce a bit …

2008-08-23 — Vincent Leeuw

Much ado about accepted controls

This article was previously published in Dutch at games blog Bashers. What follows is the English translation and edited version of said article.

2008-08-25 — Vincent Leeuw

Kotaku writes about Spellborn

Seems Kotaku has an article detailing Mike Fahey’s experience with our ‘muhmorpuhger’ The Chronicles of Spellborn at the Leipzig Games Convention. Very nice …

2008-10-06 — Vincent Leeuw

Hard deaths in Mega Man 9

It has been ages since I have completed an 8-bit Mega Man title, so the release of Capcom’s Mega Man 9 has been nothing short of a blessing to me personally. …

Spellborn at Eurogamer MMO 2008-11-11 — Vincent Leeuw

Spellborn at Eurogamer MMO

Eurogamer MMO recently jumped into the Deadspell Storm and wrote a hands-on about our MMORPG The Chronicles of Spellborn. The game's dispensed with …

Playing dress-up with the 360 2008-11-23 — Vincent Leeuw

Playing dress-up with the 360

The Avatar editor for the Xbox 360 comes nowhere near the intricacies of the Mii Channel, but with some effort you can create a ‘North American’ version of …

"Runemages are not overpowered!" 2008-11-24 — Vincent Leeuw

"Runemages are not overpowered!"

And so the balance dance begins!

Spellborn ratings 2009-01-08 — Vincent Leeuw

Spellborn ratings

Our little game The Chronicles of Spellborn seems to be approved by the press in general. The ratings hover between 7s and 8s, and I have yet to hear anyone …