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Concerning Blueberry Garden
Added by Mercanis on June 11, 2009
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Blueberry Garden is out on Steam for five dollars. It's short and experimental, but I enjoyed every moment of it. Anyone interested in an artsy platformer should give this one a look, even if it may only occupy you for a couple hours.
Related to: Steam, Blueberry Garden

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XBox 360 Controller Emulation on the PC
Added by Mercanis on May 11, 2009
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I can't recommend this emulator enough. Simply drag and drop the DLLs into the same directory as the game executable as instructed by the readme. The result: games are tricked into thinking your Logitech controller is a Microsoft XBox 360 controller.

With many modern games designed from a console perspective (not to mention developers exclusively supporting only the Microsoft controller), games can be played the way they were meant to be played... but on a PC and with another controller.

I've written about this before on the Fallout 3 forums, but I'm writing again because I ran into trouble with Mirror's Edge. Buttons and axes were swapped and fixing the controls seemed impossible. The simple (and counter-intuitive) solution: include the dinput8.dll with the other emulator files. For some reason, this fixes the button mapping problems!

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Related to: Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge

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The Witcher's Soundtrack
Added by Mercanis on May 4, 2009
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As I study for finals, I'm listening to The Witcher's official soundtrack which comes with the Enhanced Edition. Grab yourself a copy. You'll get a great game and a couple CDs of some great music. Some of this stuff wouldn't be out of place in a grade-A movie production.
Related to: The Witcher

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Savior Of Rapture
Added by Mercanis on April 6, 2009
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have finally completed my journey through the doomed city of Rapture. Saving each Little Sister along the way was a great experience, and it really paid off in the end. That closing epilogue goes down as one my top video game endings, the warmest and the fuzziest too.

I wonder what the sequel holds - how it will deal with the player's decisions from the first game. In Star Wars games, the "Light Side" ending is usually the canonical ending, but in the world of Bioshock, I'm not so sure...
Related to: BioShock

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Old Games Scary Fun Time
Added by Mercanis on March 22, 2009
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I just completed the Shalebridge Cradle level in Thief: Deadly Shadows. The experience was... harrowing.

Now I'm not sure which was more intense: Shalebridge Cradle or the Medical Pavilion of Rapture.
Related to: BioShock, Rapture, Thief: Deadly Shadows

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