‘Akihabara’– Who Needs Flash Anyway?
Owners of the original iPhone will remember the dark days before the App Store or even the original jailbreaks and third party software when games and apps consisted of nothing more than clever web...
View ArticleStill Haven’t Played a Multiplayer iPad Game? Versus Pad Has Three Freebies:...
I must mention this in every post that has anything to do with single device iPad multiplayer, but two (or more) player games on the iPad are almost always universally awesome. Everything from...
View ArticleSierra Adventure Games Coming to the iPad… But Not How You Would Think
Martin Kool describes himself as "'just some guy' with a family at home with 3 kids to take care of (and one coming up) and a day job" who also happens to have an insatiable love for old school Sierra...
View ArticleExclusive Hands-On Preview of Fan-Made ‘Space Quest’ iPad Port
Last month we posted about Sarien.net, Martin Kool's home built tribute to a wide array of classic Sierra Adventure games ranging from Space Quest to Leisure Suit Larry. Currently, all of these games...
View Article‘Space Quest’ Lands on the iPad — Courtesy of Safari
We've made a number of posts over the last few months regarding a fan-created, iPad version of Sierra's graphical point-and-click adventure Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter. What makes the effort...
View ArticleSarien.net Is Back with Activision’s Approval
It was back in October that we began following the saga of Sarien.net, a retro Sierra adventure game portal setup by developer Martin Kool. In April 2009 his website began offering entirely web-based...
View ArticleiPad 2 Shows Impressive Graphics Benchmark Results
We're just one day away from the iPad 2 launch, as every schoolchild knows, but early reviews of the unit have already begun to appear, and they all indicate that the iPad 2 is notably faster than its...
View ArticleGDC 2013: ‘Hakitzu’ Teaches Players How To Code
We don’t usually cover kid-focused stuff, but Hakitzu [Free (HD)] seems like it’s worth a look, even if you’re only vaguely interested in the “edutainment” phenomenon. In brief, it’s a turn based...
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