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Its been a long time – GLaDOS
Portal was one of the best puzzle games in 2009. Possibly the perfect mix of game for the acerage geek. Puzzle action and humour, add a dash of geek referance and geek nostalgia and there you have it. It looks like the developers are taking the sequel to a whole new level.
Just have a look you will be amazed on how valve have put this teaser together.
5 classic indie games, the humble indie bundle.
Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture .. AWESOME !!!
Note, the games will be “free as in ‘free speech’, not as in ‘free beer’”: see each license for the full, finalized details as they come out very hopefully this week — stay tuned. It is the underlying code that will be made available to everyone.
Please support this project. The games are free now (Or about to be free) however shouldn’t we be contributing. The answer is YES we should be contributing to such a generous offer from the developers. There generous offer will hopefulyl start a trend, a trend that I can only hope goes beyond the initial outlay. Buy one for yourself, one for your friends. Sheesh, a late mothers day present. Just get off the couch and do it.
As a geek when someone mentions RPG’s there are a few things that come to mind. The chances are however that Diablo is one of the first things to pop into your head. So when I finally got my hands on Torchlight I wasn’t surprised at the look or feel of the game. To say the hack and slash click frenzy was reminiscent of Diablo might be considered an understatement of the most extreme kind. Diablo II like game mechanics and the atmoshpere and simplicity of the original experience of Diablo mixed with a pleasant and classic graphical style all mesh for simple, fun and streamlined experience with Torchlight. Calling something clone is ussually a negative factor but the Diablo’esque fell comes from the Team, a group of former Blizzard North members working with Runic Games and doing a damned good job.
With a small footprint and very reasonable spec requirements Torchlight is a unique game and at it’s bargain pricing (Steam 19.95 AUD) it’s a hard gem to look over.
Well the past few days I have been trying to get the beta version of the mod working and finally some success. The mod offers a MechWarrior game utilising the crysis engine which adds up for a great game. Some minor issues I had where not having some of the mod files in the right areas as some of the installation guides were not the most comprehensive ones I have seen, still with some thinking and many reinstalls of crysis later I finally got it up and it does not disappoint.
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So It’s not a big surprise to people that know me when I bitch about Halo. The rave, the lunacy, the frat boy society that pervades the Halo Franchise all in all simply takes a less than absolute fps game experience and defecates on it. Let’s just get it all out in the air. Halo is a console fps and console fps’ are still 3 years behind PC fps games. That is of course until Activision’s COD4.
Those of you who have played COD 4 will have undoubtedly appreciated in both console and PC form. Being that PC is my preferred gaming media device I will say COD4 on PC was better than COD 4 on Console however the experience is legitimately arguable. COD 4 brought real fps gaming to the Console. None of this uber jump and sniper pistols, no Zombies’ or Alien’s or Alien Zombies in fact not even forgetull pathing ai’s. COD 4 was plain and simple a tactical modern combat game across all consoles. ( It could be argued that COD 2 and COD 3 were pc/console equivalents. They weren’t!)
COD6 is that and more.
I’ve just finished the Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 single player campaign on normal and I can only describe the experience as the single most intense and absorbing piece of entertainment media I have ever had the pleasure to be a part of. ** please note full article may have spoilers. Though if you have been reading the news or have any interest in the game you’ll know what I’m talking about already.
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Well Mass Effect 2 is coming out halfway through next month, so I thought I’d give you as thorough a review as possible so you’ll consider preordering it in time. Now I’m a Mass Effect fan, played it extensively on XBox 360, and PC. Yes, there were issues with the first game, but personally I believed those issues to be worth putting up with for a new type of RPG. It was really the first decent Sci-Fi third person RPG/FPS game ever made, and with games that revolutionise both the nature of those two genre’s, usually you’ll either find a very awesome game. Or you’ll find a game that could have been awesome but is let down by some issues with execution. ME was sadly in the second category. But Mass Effect 2 looks to be of the first category, and I’ll go into some detail why.
It all begins with Yie Ar Kung-Fu, and from there it only gets more awesome. I first played Kung Fu on my parents Amstrad CPC. So for all you older (not oldest) who want a sentimental trip down memory lane this little gem is a must. If nothing else the fate of poor mega-man cracked me up.
So the missus(Wife/Girlfriend for the un-Australian.) recently bought me Assassin’s Creed II (I know I know, I was all like WTF ORSM). Initially I wasn’t incredibly impressed. The game play followed very closely to the original (not in itself a bad thing) and I had started to think perhaps it was simply the same game with a different character and new settings. To some extent this is true however after a few hours of intensely enjoyable game play I had found the new an improved Price of Persia Rip Off that we had all come to love.
Recently I’ve been dragging my clunky old machine around a little too often and i’m finding it quite straining on the back. It’s been in the back of my head for a while now that a new case might be in order. Not to say my Lian-Li is anything but exceptional but I could do with a lifting aid (Handle, Personal Troll,) and perhaps a little more internal space for better cooling. I don’t think my tiny mid-atx was ever meant to handle a solid quad and a 4890.
So Borderlands is coming. A gaming buddy of mine [Judas] introduced me to this game a few years back when it looked like development might have gone the way of the Nukem. Fortunately it hadn’t.
When people do ‘marketing’ things we expect them to throw a bazillion coloured ping pong balls off a building, or perhaps to dance around an Oprah stage. Maybe marketing can be thought of in the way of add’s as entertaining. Some add’s really give more than there fair share while others seems simply, strange (I’m looking at you microsoft.)
Wich is of course why we all get so excited when someone does something awesome. I mean sure millions of ping pong balls bouncing down a city street iscool. But they blocked the street of, it didn’t achieve anything (Perhaps if they’d done it during rush hour, or am I being sadistic ?) This is a work of marketing genius.
Personally Id have preferred a Land Raider.
Mega Man? Where’s Mega Man?
The Mega-Poo, Just Hit The Fan !!!
This is a truly classic game, and as such deserves a truly classic ‘inspired’ introduction
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