Welcome to Issue 30 of the eZine! In this issue we look at animating lightning in cutscenes, whether DRM is all it cracks up to be (pun intended), and take a look at pubs in RPGs. Meanwhile we have a three page Musical Corner, and take a look at some of the new games on the site including six...

What's This? The latest update to HBGames, and it's a combination of four different plugins, two paid, to provide a better search experience and new ways of navigating the website. Enhanced Search Rather than using the default MySQL search, which is slow, cumbersome and resource intensive, we...

Hi guys, I'm currently on vacation and while I thought this would give me time to work on HBGames, instead I have found myself with 38kbps internet at best (essentially NO Internet at all). HBGames Xen has largely been successful but this post is a look at where we are and where we can go in...

In this issue Ellie takes a look at Pioneer Valley, some of the most beautiful graphics packs out there for game making. Meanwhile we introduce HBGames Xen, our conversion to Xenforo and the building of our content management system, including our new games pages and resource manager.

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I have, unfortunately, had a little problem, in that my laptop, which is what I use for basically everything, died a few weeks ago with no way of diagnostics. I need the hard drive out of it, which would void the warranty, and while it's in warranty so I could send it back to get it fixed, I...