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Meg Stivison

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has been a videogamer since discovering text-based adventure games as a little girl. She blogs on games and life at Simpsonsparadox.com.
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QuestLord Review

  • October 31, 2019
  • Meg Stivison
 8-bit Elegance QuestLord, from Eric Kinkead, is an accessible – but not necessarily lite – retro role-playing adventure.  The game opens with the sweet RPG classics. Your character is a…
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9th Dawn Review

  • October 31, 2019
  • Meg Stivison
Indie Gem ValorWare’s new game 9th Dawn offers so much to love for fans of old RPGs.  The world is huge and open. 9th Dawn provides a vast, contiguous world…
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Pavilion: Touch Edition Review

  • September 9, 2019
  • Meg Stivison
Lost in Abandoned Ruins In Pavilion: Touch Edition, from Visiontrick, players can’t control their hero directly — he won’t go where you tap or turn right at your command. Instead,…
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Becoming a Game Reviewer

  • January 1, 2019
  • Meg Stivison
Games blogging is a great way into games journalism. Starting a games blog can be as simple as setting up an account on Blogger or WordPress.  Don’t tell anyone but…
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Sproggiwood Review

  • July 4, 2015
  • Meg Stivison
Sproggiwood is a casual roguelike, where your character, the Cloghead, has to complete missions for his adorably moody boss, Sproggi. For me, a lot of the appeal of a roguelike…
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Enchanted Cave 2 Review

  • May 24, 2015
  • Meg Stivison
Enchanted Cave 2 opens in a typical RPG town, full of townspeople sharing the requisite warnings about the boundless dangers and wonderful treasures found in the nearby cursed cave, but…
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Bik—A Space Adventure Review

  • September 12, 2014
  • Meg Stivison
Four Boy Scouts are on a lovely camping trip, enjoying an adult-free evening reading comic books and eating perfectly toasted campfire marshmallows, when one of the boys is abducted by…
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South By Southwest Gaming Expo

  • March 15, 2014
  • Meg Stivison
South by Southwest is almost a month of interactive, film and music shows, held annually in Austin, Texas. The festival is known for emerging music, launches of innovative tech startups,…
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SXSW Gaming Award Winners

  • March 14, 2014
  • Meg Stivison
Game of the Year Award The Last of Us from Naughty Dog Excellence in Gameplay Award Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from 505 Studios Excellence in Art Award Bioshock…
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Everlove Review

  • October 16, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
Silicon Sisters’ new character driven adventure Everlove blends escapism, romance and very accessible gameplay. Everlove opens with the protagonist, Rose, lying down in a therapist’s office to begin past-life regression…
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Meg Stivison: Writing for Games

  • September 13, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
I began my game development career when I was about ten, by writing text-based adventures in BASIC and talking my little sister into playtesting them. This is where I learned…
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Lord Vogel

  • May 25, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
After playing and thoroughly enjoying Avernum: Escape From The Pit, I was excited to talk with designer and writer Jeff Vogel about his work. Vogel, the founder of Spiderweb Software,…
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Avernum: Escape from the Pit Review

  • May 15, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
Spiderweb Software’s Avernum: Escape from the Pit is an old-fashioned open world RPG adventure for iOs and Android.  Avernum is an underground realm, to which you and your party have…
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Spirited Soul Review

  • April 28, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
Everything one can say about Snailteeth’s new tower defence/RPG Spirited Soul  is colored by the game’s poor localization. The translated game text is usually a bit awkward, lacking punctuation and…
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Not Just Another Zombie Apocalypse

  • April 19, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
After playing and loving the blend of solid strategy and post-apocalyptic narrative in Rebuild 2, I was thrilled to hear about Sarah Northway’s plans for Rebuild 3. Major differences, Sarah…
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Dungelot Review

  • February 15, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
Dungeonsweeper! Players of Dungelot, Red Winter Software’s casual, roguelike dungeon crawler, follow basic dungeoneering adventure goals as they explore: Kill monsters! Get loot! Don’t die! Each level is a grid…
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Dark Arcana The Carnival Review

  • January 30, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
Of carnies and creepy clowns. In Artifex Mundi’s Dark Arcana, a supernatural adventure game for Droid, players begin by investigating a missing woman at a creepy carnival. As the empty…
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Zenonia 5 Review

  • January 24, 2013
  • Meg Stivison
Love and Loathing in Las Zenonia. Zenonia 5, Gamevil’s latest installment in the Zenonia series, is a fantasy action RPG for Droid.  Players enter an engaging fantasy world, with charming…
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Rebuild Strategy Guide

  • December 25, 2012
  • Meg Stivison
Sarah Northway’s Rebuild asks players to rebuild society after the zombie apocalypse by reclaiming land and building, gaining survivors, gathering resources, and — oh yeah — surviving zombie attacks. The…
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Knights of Pen and Paper: Reboot Android Review

  • December 14, 2012
  • Meg Stivison
All patched up and ready to go! After a recent patch, new sections of Behold Studio’s Knights of Pen & Paper became accessible. First, the RPG shop, which previously crashed…
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