The Portal series. Easily two of my favorite PC games, and mind-blowing when you really think about them. Maybe even a little creepy.
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Video: Crushed Between Two Portals Experiment (Portal 2)
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ARK: Survival Evolved Adds Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster
So, I’ve been away. I don’t really have an explanation for that. I think, sometimes, you just need to take a break. Or two breaks. Maybe three. But that’s not the point, here. The point here is that, during my rather lengthy vacation away from Stranger Dimensions, I found myself sucked into the curious world of …
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Play Titanic: Adventure Out of Time Online
In 1996, Cyberflix published a PC adventure game called Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. It’s one of those games that’s always stuck with me, even though I’ve never actually finished it, and I’ll tell you why.
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Review: Contrast (PC)
Here I sit, pouring over weird stories about time vortexes and bizarre chemical reactions. I have a lot planned for Stranger Dimensions, even though I’ve been distracted (I’ve posted a whole seven articles this month). But for right now I thought I’d try something new.
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A Different Kind of Time Travel: The Music of Today, Yesterday!
I don’t want to spoil the pure awesome that is Bioshock Infinite (well, no more than I already have), but one of the coolest things about the game is its music. Not only does it have an incredible original score, but interspersed throughout the narrative are curious hints that things in Columbia are not what …
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Sony’s “Brain Stimulation” Patent
Imagine if we could throw away the controllers of old and instead plug ourselves into a game console. We’d experience the sights, smells, and other sensations of a virtual world as though they were actually real. Granted, I’m not sure I’d personally want to experience half of what goes on in certain video games, but …
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Fans Create A Virtual Jurassic Park
All this talk about genetic engineering and cloning has got me thinking about Jurassic Park. And what do you know? A group of fans are hard at work on a new game (well, a Half-Life 2 mod) called Jurassic Life, rendering Isla Nublar in Valve’s Source Engine. You can see their progress in the above video. …