November 2010
9 posts
It's time to hoard for the winter
It’s that time of the year again. Steam’s Thanksgiving sale is here, six daily sets of deals and also this time, the more insidious gift deals. Because nothing makes sense like dropping 20 euros on 10 copies of Half-Life 21.
These packs are deals made for Steam and the publishers. Not only get the publishers more stuff sold, Steam gets new customers. I’m guessing most of the...
Playing Half-Life 2
After a couple of months break, I played some more Half-Life 2 and I’m now somewhere with my trusty airboat.
I have started to rethink what I wrote earlier about health packs vs. regenerative health. I had a discussion about the same issue at work, where a work colleague pointed out that for him the whole health pack/survival thing is the key. He had previously played Dead Space and...
Games for Windows Live from Hell
So, I have unexpectedly the whole day for myself and decide it’s time for some good Dawn of War II action.
Microsoft had decided that I was not to get this pleasure, though. A small banner on the main screen told that a recent update to GFWL had broken the multiplayer and the game would crash if you tried to use the voice chat. That didn’t sound like a problem and I queued up for a...
Telltale Games
One of my favourite game companies is Telltale Games, because it seems that they really are in touch with their community. Sure, maybe the same thing can be said about any game company you’re a fan of. But these guys brought Sam & Max back to life!
Telltale’s business has been mostly making adventure games of someone else’s IP. Normally, this would sound like a sure...
The LAN event is go!
The LAN event me and a group of time-constrained friends started to plan in August has finally both a time and a place1 and it’s only a month away.
Good times.
which, fortunately, isn’t a bomb shelter ↩
LOTRO: Now also free in Europe →
Okay, so this autumn just decided to happen the day after I get to moan about it.
So, now there might be some other people in there now. Hacking away at spiders.
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Lord of the Rings: Online
I was down with the flu couple of weeks ago and used the additional downtime to continue my quests outside the Citadel space in Mass Effect and try out some new games, one of them was the Lord of the Rings MMORPG. I was led to believe by the U.S.-dominated gaming news sites that the game was free-to-play, but no-one bothered to mention that meant actually just in the U.S.
Around here in the...
Playing Mass Effect
I finally got to play this game through last weekend. It was a blast.
Virmire finally gave me a simple way to solve my little problem. Nothing like a 20 kiloton tactical nuclear bomb to solve your love triangles. I maxed out my Paragon points towards the end, so I had to turn a bit evil to rack up at least some Renegade points.
In hindsight, I probably should’ve picked Liara to see...
