August 2010
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Quake Live
Quake Live is either a testament to the longevity of Quake’s DM or to how powerful new computers are when you can run a real game as a web browser plugin. Quake Live probably offers the least friction to just go and frag random people on the net. And not only on Windows, the game also runs on a Mac (and Linux!), which is totally mindblowing. This should be my go-to instant FPS deathmatch...
Upcoming LAN event
OMG. After a year of talking about having a LAN event, we have actually gone so far as to have a Doodle poll of available dates. And no, the dates are not even that much into the future. Sure, I might have been over-optimistic about my own availability on certain dates, but let’s see. We’re aiming at less than 8 guys, which does mean that we might get around to play Left 4 Dead...
My Gaming Rig
Sure, the title is a bit misleading as having a gaming PC is pretty much out of the question for me. I couldn’t justify the table space or sitting in front of it to anyone, not even my dog. And anyway, staring a stationary computer for 8 hours a day is my day job.
On top of that, I very much prefer using a Mac at home. To me, Windows is the truck I drive1 at work and Mac OS X is the...
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Plants vs. Zombies
If I could only tweet about this game it would be: Left 4 Dead for people with no time and no friends. Well, not really. But, really.
PopCap is known for their simple yet very addictive games like Bejeweled and Peggle1. Plants vs. Zombies is a bit more complex (ie. requires more strategy) than an average PopCap game, but it is also much more fun. It’s a really nice little time sink, but...
Games Queue: Fall 2010 Edition
Because of the huge backlog I have accumulated lately, I’m playing multiple games at around the same time which means I’m not really making any progress on any. Especially because right now I’m not even concentrating on any single game. Previously I did focus on GTA IV and managed to play it through in about six months of calendar time.
Right now on my plate I’ve got (in...
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Playing Mass Effect
I have so far played this game for 3 hours and have so far played through one mission. On the other hand, I love this exploration and RPG aspect of the game. It does bring the world alive around you, if you’re patient enough.
Or maybe I’m just trying to postpone the missions because I’m not really that good with this game’s fighting mechanic.
And, yes, of course I...
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Playing Half-Life 2
Wow, just got a semiautomatic gun in HL2. This could actually mean that the game could actually start sometime soon. The gun progression has been quite predictable since Wolfenstein 3D.
I think it’s easy to see in HL2 why modern FPSs have thrown away the medikit item and rely on regeneration instead. There are medikits all over the place here, and always after a “scene”....
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Cosmo Kid HD: Bounce the Galaxy!
Yeah, an iPhone game. My daily commute is divided between Google Reader and Cosmo Kid HD.1
In Cosmo Kid your objective is to draw a little trampoline and keep the little guy jumping ever higher into the space.
It’s true arcade game with a simple goal, a high score and the game starts to throw ever more fiendish crap at the player. In this game that crap is collectively known as Kukkas...
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Alien Swarm
Valve, I still don’t have four friends. Oh wait, you actually listened this time.
It’s Left 4 Dead in space!
Alien Swarm is a free top down remake of (cough) Alien Swarm, a popular mod for Unreal Tournament 2004. It has 4 player co-op and a shipload of weapons.
Valve made headlines with it’s announcement of Steam client for Mac and telling how Mac was tier 1 for them...
Playing Half-Life 2 for the first time
So, well, yeah… I’ve never played Half-Life 2 before today. I did play the original Half-Life and both expansion packs, Opposing Force and Blue Shift1, and I guess when Half-Life 2 came out my computer was so woefully out of date to even think about running it.
There’s a lot of acclaim for Half-Life 2 and I didn’t intend to skip it, I just never got around to play it. So...
Kill Screen Magazine →
A magazine for me? A copy of Kill Screen would look so good next to my pile of unread The Economists.
I’m afraid this magazine has the lifespan of all the other non-car and non-boobs men magazines, because it’s this stuff that justifies to us that playing each and every Commander Keen through wasn’t a total waste of time. It was… culture.
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Tales of Monkey Island
The Monkey Island series has a special place in my heart, right between Sierra’s Space Quest IV and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, as the adventure games that really got me hooked. These, and Special Forces, were the reason why I wanted my own computer. Monkey Island 2 is also a game that I left for about 6 months, because I had no idea how to continue - no, this wasn’t the...
