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The internet, while citing various 'experts' on the topic, goes with either a colony of tubifex worms or a colony of bryozoans. Neither of these seem very convincing to me, and there isn't really any other image material, but it might just be a rare occurrence. Or, which makes up a third group...

This. Incidentally, they seem to be making a game called Deus Ex 3. According to the wiki article, it won't have Warren Spector or Harvey Smith on it, so either we get something creatively interpreted and new, or we get another cash-out. While unified ammo seems out, they will be using...

Well its a nice ploy to get some NVG's sold I guess.

The intro to Fallout 3 does a lot of stuff wrong, not just artistically but also in what an intro ought to achieve. First of all, it creates the idea that the apocalypse has basically just ended, whereas we're already 200 years onwards from the war. This should've been told by the intro. But...

Well I guess Washington DC just wasn't that important. Nope, some random dunghill outside which became Megaton was a much more important target. Funny how the only crater I've encountered in the game is from an unexploded nuke. When you think about it, natural disasters explain the haphazard...

I've never actually bothered with getting the DLC's. Heck, I haven't even finished Fallout 3, pretty soon it just became too much of a time waste to constantly kill things, kill more things, get loot sold, kill things, blow things up, dismember things, and murder things. The DLC's don't seem to...

Aye, The Count of Monte Cristo is where it's from. As with my name. I've seen a few versions of Monte Cristo movies (perhaps three or so of the idiotic amount of almost 20) and the version with Gérard Depardieu was pretty much the only one I really liked, it translated the book onto the...

"The Third Man", UK production from 1949, written by Graham Greene, is probably one of the best movies in the film-noir genre that I know of. Well, to be honest, I haven't seen a lot of film-noir movies anyway. But I think it has very good acting, a gripping story, and a great setting. And the...

Nietzsche is somewhat readable, but it's pretty damn hard to get a firm grasp of the points he's trying to make. My advantage is that I've lived in Germany for 8 years and can read the original text. Translations are usually quite precise but sometimes translate a certain word to a different...

Right now: - Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse - Herodotus, The Histories Since I've started studying I simply haven't been able to get to read my normal bedtime literature anymore. Good old Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, etc. I miss 'em. Herodotus just doesn't make me snicker and grin...

So if a game doesn't offer endless continuance of some sort of repetitive action it's somehow a bad thing? God's, how have we arrived at this idiocy? Haven't checked back with Fallout 3 for a while, but is there really a market for all these DLC's? I mean, the main ingredient in Fallout 3...

Well TLJ mostly has puzzles that can be completed by actually thinking correctly. They are very well done and require an almost minimum of randomly rubbing items against other items. There are one or two that most certainly need a walkthrough though. Dreamfall....well, while certainly having...

Any more recent adventure game pretty much, but perhaps a bit under par. Played Broken Sword 3? The latest I think, the one that went 3D. It wasn't as bad as Dreamfall turned out to be but still, it also suffered from the idea to introduce sneaking puzzles. Also, you can and will die in...

That's basically what I call the core gameplay, the engine, what it allows you to do. And that's fine, it's fun, well developed. But that ought to basically just be part of the game, not all of the game. Because apart from this core aspect, the game simply doesn't offer enough. 'Mount and...

Recently I've finished Dreamfall. I was expecting this to be, in some way, a sequel to 'The Longest Journey' not just in name but also in quality. But in the end it seems like they ditched the entire 'deep involving story, with interesting characters and lots of relevant deep conversations that...

Played through the entire game, basically just because I was avoiding studying and it was the only game I had installed at the time. Overall, quite a disappointment. The initial outset is interesting, Africa is a nice (and new) setting, fire is lovely, but pretty much useless in actual...

While playing F3 I found there to be one major problem. The game refuses to take itself serious and feels like it's making fun of the entire franchise. Every time I find a 'bobblehead' and my stats magically rise, every time I headshot someone and their head flies off like a well hit golf...

I've recently had a bit of a stroll in adventure game land again, god did I miss those games. But it made me remember about this discussion on games getting easier and dumbed down. If it's noticeable anywhere, it's in the adventure genre. I don't know whether adventure game creators call it...

Seems quite a trend. System Shock 2 went the same way with its spiritual successor, the constant baby-sit-feast that Bioshock was. I still clearly remember the humongous amounts of detail that SS2 had; every little thing, even a pack of crisps, had an immensely detailed description. In Bioshock...

That's pretty quick. Although I guess they won't translate the voice acting and only the text. Wouldn't make much sense to see everyone speak non-American/English anyway. I wonder how they'll react to the game. Nice touch with the haiku there by the way.