PC

DoomRL Is The Free Doom RPG You Need To Play

Kotaku AU

DoomRL, the demonic offspring of Doom, the first-person shooter and Rogue the, erm, roguelike, recently received an update. By far the most noticeable change is a shift from ASCII to 2D sprites. Did I say “most noticeable”? I meant “most incredibly awesome thing ever that vapourised my socks and detached my eyebrows from my face through its sheer hair-removing excitement powers”.


April 28, 2011
News

10 Other Superheroes Who Possessed The Powers Of Thor

Throughout Thor’s illustrious career, his powers have been appropriated by a slew of other comic book heroes. Not all of these heroes carried his official hammer, Mjolnir, but almost all of them dressed as lunatics while imitating the Thunder God.


April 14, 2011
PC

Building Your Own Rogue In Rift

In Trion Worlds’ massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Rift, eight different souls come together three-at-a-time to create many different flavours of rogue. Here are just a few.


February 9, 2011
PC

Which Character Class Will You Play In Dragon Age II?

BioWare’s Champions trailer for Dragon Age II asks players a very fundamental question: Which combat style will your version of the hero Hawke embrace?


December 2, 2008
Uncategorized

iPhone Gets Rogue, NetHack Pleading Starts Here

For me, roguelike games are an absolute must have on any self-respecting games platform, and you don’t get much more roguelike than, well, Rogue.


November 24, 2008
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In-Game Browser Offers 25 Percent More Avoidance of Real World

Got an email this week from the CEO of Genesis Interactive, which runs GotGame, a social portal for gamers. Asserting that “PC gamers spend a quarter of their time in game waiting for either teammates to log in or games to load,” they’ve developed a browser — called Rogue — that allows you to look at porn surf the web, without leaving your game and potentially missing out on the action.


August 14, 2008
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Old School Dungeoneering In The Tombs Of Asciiroth

Fans of pre-graphical RPGs like Nethack and Rogue might occasionally wander out from their UNIX labs and find themselves confronted with a modern web browser.

Once the initial shock of daylight and antialiased fonts has worn off, they will probably need to chill out with a quick dungeon hack. Tombs Of Asciiroth is a labour of love — recreating the look and feel of an ASCII roguelike in Firefox.

There is full-length quest to be had wandering the titular Tombs, and the usually obscure keyboard commands are illustrated with a nice tutorial level with pop-up tip windows.

It can be a bit slow, and you will need to install Google Gears if you want to save your game, but there is plenty of old school fun to be had. You can’t not like a game that includes the phrase “Use the sword against hostile Ampersands”.

The Tombs Of Asciiroth [Icculus.org]


August 3, 2007
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This RPG Tastes Like Cinnamon

We have no interest in the 80′s RPG remakes, little love for the bulky Sega Genesis controller and very limited fondness in the overwhelming scent of cinnamon. But mix the three components together, and you have a fascinating little console we’d spend at least one of our three nuts on.

Greg Sanders is the modder behind this Dungeons of Doom-playing machine. Running off just a 9V battery, the Cinnamonlution (we just made that up but like it alot) can power one Sega controller and video-only RCA out to a television (all audio is through a headphone port).

For those who are feeling crafty, the project was built from just $US21.50 in parts. It will also probably cost you any future in hand modelling, as soldering burns don’t make for good TV.

The Dungeons of Doom [via playgadgets]