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Spacey Game News and Deals 10/9/13: The Calm-Before-the-Storm Edition 0

News / Deals

Spacey Game News and Deals 10/9/13: The Calm-Before-the-Storm Edition

Hello my friends, and happy Wednesday! I hope y’all are more awake than I am! SOOO TIRED! However, there’s news to report, and I’m trying to do this at least regularly enough that nothing...

Starlight Inception Q&A – Creating a Fresh Space Sim 0

Interviews / Featured

Starlight Inception Q&A – Creating a Fresh Space Sim

So today is the last day of the Kickstarter campaign for Starlight Inception, and they still need a bit more than 20% of their funding to meet their goal. To hopefully help with promotion, I...

An Ode to iMUSE (or Missing Contextually-Based Music in Space Games) 4

Op-Ed / Featured

An Ode to iMUSE (or Missing Contextually-Based Music in Space Games)

After I published the story of my most memorable dogfight the other day, we got into a discussion about TIE Fighter and its ilk on one of my favorite gaming forums, Quarter to Three....

What’s Your Most Memorable Dogfight? 11

Op-Ed / Featured

What’s Your Most Memorable Dogfight?

Anyone who’s played space combat games for a long time probably has several tales of brilliant success or failure that have been seared into their brains over the years. A brilliant victory, a crushing...

The Day the Space Sim Died 3

Op-Ed / Featured

The Day the Space Sim Died

I’ve always felt that if a PC game has a spaceship in it, I’ll play it, no question. One of my earliest memories involving video games was Lunar Lander on the Radio Shack TRS-80....

The Best and Worst Space Fighters 25

Op-Ed / Featured

The Best and Worst Space Fighters

I’ll admit, right off the bat, that this was a tough article to write. I’ve played many, many space combat sims in my day, and through research and my own memory I strained to...