Author: Sonia Hurtado
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The human origin of League of Legends
Today I will talk about one of the most famous online role-playing games that have ever been created: the acclaimed and well-known “League of Legends”. For this, today I do it through a documentary that unravels its origin and exposes it through the history of its creators and its audience: “League of legends Origins”
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“Alias”, the Finnish Taboo
Finnish culture has adapted to its gamer scene one of the classic and well-known boardgames: “Taboo”; and it has done so by giving it the name “Alias”. A game that requires the same skill and the same mental agility as Taboo to have a good time
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The most “scary” version of Tinder in a game: Monster seeking monster
“Monster seeking monster” is an online game that needs all your ingenuity and creativity to get the love of other players. An unknown but original game that will make you die of laughter to find the love
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A present and past videogame podcast
The Past Is Now, a podcast where the Andalusians Cabesa Freeman and Ivelias Zero analyse cultural and technical aspects of retro and current games. A space on Spotify where you can listen to the most popular and fun opinion in the gamer world
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A high tension “Operation”
Operation is one of the most historic boardgames that exist. A game that our parents and all of us have played at some time and with which we have all felt our tension shoot up. The reputed and known by those players with sufficient skill and ability, “Operation”
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Value capture in gamification can help deal with addiction
In this article, Michael Ridge chooses gamification as the subject of analysis to develop one of the cases in which his recognized problem, Value Capture, can be useful in the long term
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A day in the life of Identity V
In this experimental review, the author narrates an ordinary day in the online survival videogame developed and published by the company NetEase: Identity V. A unique and innovative way of understanding the development and experience of this game that was released in July 2018
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The Sims have opened up a world of diversity by destroying the genre
Throughout this last decade, the Sims have become one of the best known social simulation videogames in our gamer imaginary. A game that allows us to create a new world with adorable virtual alter-egos with which to manage a parallel life that doesn’t exist. A new life where you choose how and who to be…
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Coordination and dexterity through some wooden blocks
There is a modern and classic game that has already become one of the essential board games of our gamer imagination. A game that puts the psychomotor skills of its players to the surface with just a few wooden blocks: “Jenga”, the original version
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A game for those devoted to imagination
There are many boardgames where you have to think and imagine, and among them is Codenames Pictures. A game where whoever chooses their imagination best wins, because finding out the cards depends on your ability to describe them
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The impostor is among us, you just have to find him out
It went viral during the 2020 pandemic. AmongUs is an online and interactive game that connects millions of players around the world and whose goal is to be the best impostor among the rest of normal players.
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The horror video game that left the PlayStation 2: Obscure
PlayStation2 had a lot of good games to go to back in its day. Fear and terror manifested themselves in one well-remembered: Obscure. A video game with a complex and detailed story that tenses the atmosphere with a terror of a student plot.
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A board game for cat lovers
I am going to present a review of Exploding Kittens. The popular board game that stands out for the simplicity and speed of its development. An agile and fun development between cat illustrations that poses a clear dynamic: be the only player who doesn’t explode.