Sphinx Sanitarium

I see how it is Shogun 2

2012-01-03T19:29:00.000-06:00

I buy Shogun 2 on Steam for cheap and while I didn't expect an easy time of it I also did not expect the computer to play smart or at least smarter than it did when I last played a Total War game. I get to the large island, take out a small clan and then everything turns to hell. Civilians rise up and revolt and then the largest clans decide to attack me too. Hmph.. Time to start anew.

The Coal Addict Confessional

2012-01-02T11:48:00.000-06:00

A nice write-up here about someone determined to get some nice stuff on Steam. The only thing I did to go out of my way for some coal was reload DEFCON and nuke Santa. I don't consider that a bad thing either as DEFCON's a great game. Santa was over Russia too and those dirty Commies don't deserve presents anyway. Check the comments in that article for what one scumbag did though to get more

Addendum to Game of the Year

2011-12-30T23:52:00.001-06:00

Worst game of the year? How could I forget. Let's congratulate our winner, and still champion after 10 years.. Black & White!! How does a game from 10 years ago get to be this year's worst game of the year? By simply sucking across all moments in time at a quantum state of sucking. Someday the Large Hadron Collider will have definitive proof of the Higgs-Boson and then at some later point

Games of the Year

2011-12-28T18:30:00.001-06:00

Well, end of the year which means sites are putting out lists to fill up space. Cracked of course calls that every day but no matter. As I actually pay for the games I play and don't get them free I think my opinion carries more weight to it since I spent my own cash on this. These are the games that I played this year and what I thought of them. Best game first. 1. Portal 2 - I grabbed this on

Steam holiday sales

2011-12-23T20:10:00.000-06:00

So Steam has gone bonkers with the sales this week offering more than half off even titles that have only been out a few months. $15 for RAGE? Sure I'll do that. All these sales and installing of new games presented a technical question which I fail to see why it hasn't addressed by Valve yet. I don't see a way to tell Steam where to install the games so I can't have games load on multiple

Diablo 3 Beta

2011-12-08T22:00:00.000-06:00

Received a nice little surprise in the email the other day about getting into the Diablo 3 beta so here goes. Fought through the beta. It lets you get to the first major dungeon boss "Skeleton King". One big change I've noticed -- or at least I think it's a big change -- is that you can not use all of your spells/arts on the skill tree. Instead you have to go to an altar in town or often at

New definition of vacation boredom

2011-12-06T17:48:00.003-06:00

Going back through Batman: Arkham City and trying to get all of the Riddler trophies. There's over 400 of them.

Forthcoming BF3 patch

2011-12-04T12:42:00.001-06:00

The balance tweaks seem promising at least. But, as this is EA/Dice we're talking about it's best to hold one's breath a little.

Battlefield 3 Review

2011-11-16T18:35:00.002-06:00

About five years ago I wrote a review for Battlefield 2 and while this review has been lost to the internet gods, I wrote then, and still believe, that after everything BF2 brought to the table, both old features and new features, nothing from shooters would really surprise me anymore. I see that my impression back then has been proven correct because Battlefield 3, while being a really fun

Dear Saints Row: The Third

2011-11-05T21:10:00.000-05:00

I know we've talked before but just to be sure you remember me I just wanted to say that I love you so very much. This comes out on the 15th of this month. I wish I had some extra cash to buy it right away.

Battlefield 3 Single Player. You mean it's bad?

2011-10-28T05:11:00.000-05:00

Color me shocked to learn that the single player in Battlefield 3 isn't that good. Actually, don't because who gives a crap about single player when there's so many snipers in the multiplayer game that need to be stabbed with my knife.

Serious Sam: Double-D Review

2011-09-11T20:09:00.002-05:00

For this review we're going to put the "a picture is worth a thousand words" to the test for reviewing Serious Sam: Double-D. So let's look at this screenshot. I call this stack the "Pink Slip." What do we have here? Well it's obvious we have our hero Serious Sam holding a bunch of guns, in this case a stack of grenade and rocket launchers using the Gunstacker tools. Now if we know one

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: 10 years in the teaming

2011-09-07T19:53:00.000-05:00

Random thoughts occurred today and at one point I started thinking about Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It's been ten years since the game came out and September 17th marks the day that the free multiplayer map mp_beach was released to the public. Heck of time to release it considering what had happened just a few days before. It appears others have noticed too as there's a 10 year tournament

Serious Sam 3: BFE

2011-09-01T16:40:00.001-05:00

Your health will not automatically regenerate. Quit being such a f'in pussy.

Mass Effect 2 - Final follow-up

2011-08-29T21:01:00.000-05:00

Did a second quick play through and I was able to work it to where everyone who I wanted to die, did die and everyone else lived. Body count included the bitch Miranda, Jacob, Tali, and Garrus. So now ready to stop playing this and pick it up again when ME3 comes out next year. In the meantime, we have Serious Sam: Double-D out in a few days.

Mass Effect 2 - Review

2011-08-24T17:29:00.004-05:00

Note: As this game's been out over a year I don't feel too guilty putting spoilers all over this so you've been warned. Mass Effect 2 proves, to me at least, that perhaps Mass Effect 1 was some sort of aberration from Bioware. After making one of the best games of the last decade with Knights of the Old Republic they either let the accolades swell their heads or perhaps were doing piles of coke

Serious Sam Double-D

2011-08-22T18:49:00.000-05:00

You know what's great about Serious Sam? Everything! That's the truth!

Backhanded compliments

2011-08-12T22:05:00.000-05:00

Just this afternoon I was sitting bored at the house thinking how much I'd like a new game. But with finances the way they are right now plunking down $60 for a new game isn't feasible. Lo and behold I get an email from EA saying they want to give me a free game since I pre-ordered Battlefield 3. The only give three choices though: Medal of Honor, Dead Space 2, and Mass Effect 2. I know nothing

Serious Sam 3: BFE previews trickling in

2011-08-12T18:59:00.000-05:00

So I'm starting to see previews of Serious Sam 3 pop up and I must say it is getting me a bit excited. That is of course an understatement because right now I'm typing this with one hand. However, I also get to say "told you so" because my review of the Serious Sam HD last year was right on the money: gamers skills deteriorated over the years and now these other writers are realizing it and now

Team Fortress 2 - Review

2011-07-31T20:22:00.000-05:00

Dear reader you should not consider this a review of Team Fortress 2 since reading a review of a very popular PC game that now approaches four years old would be a bit foolish. Instead, let us consider this more akin to a tribute or possibly even an homage to a game existing in the team based shooter genre which, unlike many of its contemporaries, rose up to the level of other quality team

Hey look at that, ads!

2011-07-16T08:27:00.000-05:00

Finally took the time to look at how to setup and get the ads working here. Was motivated by finally getting my Adsense PIN in the mail. Pretty painless actually. Next up this weekend is work on a review for TF2 and maybe making dedicated pages on Facebook and Google+ for this.

BRINK - Game Review

2011-07-06T23:06:00.000-05:00

This goes counter to the popular sentiment I see online but I genuinely like Splash Damage's new game BRINK. I'm pretty sure this goes against the grain because right now at 9:27PM on July 6th here in the US there's only one 16 player server that is fully populated. For a game that came out about two months ago that's a very disappointing sight to be sure. I think this is a rebel or maybe not

StarCraft II Review -- Late as usual

2011-06-27T19:56:00.000-05:00

Let us dispense with certain pleasantries for now that you might find in a typical review for a game like Starcraft II for several reasons. Starcraft II has been out for nearly a year now and I'm finally getting around to writing a review of it so that should tell you something right there. I'm late to this party because I'm married now and honestly RTS games are not my first choice of games for

BRINK

2011-05-18T20:02:00.002-05:00

I'm playing this and I'm liking it though there is one game mechanic which is devil incarnate. Take a guess at which one.

Serious Sam: Double-D

2011-04-28T16:22:00.000-05:00

When playing a shooter do you ever get tired of having to switch weapons? Well neither did I until recently at least. Then I saw what they are going to do in 2-D side scroller Serious Sam Double-D. Sam give us weapon stacking Why? Because Sam wants it that way, that's why!