Palmacosta In the last Let’s Play of Tales of Symphonia http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=7036 the cast was off to the port town of Palmacosta. As soon as the group enters the town, we realize that the tone of the game is going to remain serious. When entering a store we see the Desians threaten the shop keeper Choclat because she will not sell them items are greatly reduced prices.
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File this away in today's things I wish I didn't have to write about. Apparently, changing your language settings in Minecraft to Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa and Namibia, causes the top button to tell the player "you are a N**GER". The reason for this is crowdsourced translation, in which players help out the community by submitting translations for the game in
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Via my Twitter feed, a bit of good news. A recent development update for indie dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock changed the GUI for the game to remove the bar at the bottom of the screen that contained items, character statuses, and movement arrows. In the comments on the post, a disabled gamer inquired about the removal of the arrow buttons, mentioning that he preferred using a mouse to na
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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, an international event marking the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The Nazi regime, in addition to Jews and Romanies, murdered millions of homosexuals, mentally ill and physically disabled people, transsexuals, and religious dissidents amongst other groups. World War 2 is such a default scenario for video games (including a lot tha
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Since Star Trek Online went free to play last week, I thought I'd give it a go and see what it was like. I've been a fan of Star Trek for a long time. I watched The Next Generation when it was first broadcast, and I still rate Deep Space Nine as one of my favourite TV shows of all time. As such, this was a game that I really wanted to like. Unfortunately, things started to go sour from as e
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Another Wednesday, another set of our usual questions: What games are you playing this week? Would you recommend those games to other Border House readers? What games have you ranting? Are any of those games listed ones that you want to see covered on the site? I have continued playing Atelier Totori. I obtained Totori's adventurer's license and am now working on buildin
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Today I'm very excited to announce a new direction for The Border House. We've been having chats in the background for a while about setting up a more active community side of The Border House. I (kimadactyl) have been assigned as community manager (thanks to all the editors, I feel so proud!) so feel free to get in touch with any and all questions and queries. Without further ado then, I'd like
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Here's some things around the web that I read, and you should too! (or not, up to you) The Lovely, Colorful Platformer Scarygirl Arrives on XBLA (Kotaku): A ridiculously cute game with a young girl as the main character has just released today on XBLA for $15. It is also coming to PSN next week and will be on PC sometime in the future. I haven't played the Flash incarnation,
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In November, Gearbox Software held a casting call to find a model who would portray Lilith in Borderlands 2. The winner of this contest has just been announced, and a woman by the name of Yasemin Arslan was chosen for the role. This video below shows her transformation (and her awesome contact lenses). Arslan will not just be a promotional model, she will actually be featu
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I am a sucker for a single player RPG, especially when it promises me a sweet reward in another single player RPG within my favorite universe. The debut title from 38 Studios, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning now has a demo available on XBL, PSN, and Steam, and it offers a sweet dungeon and 45 minutes of gameplay in the overland world. I played around with it for about 30 minute
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