I’ve had as my co-workers call it a “staycation” where I take time off but stay in town. Hanne and I do everything we can to NOT travel between Thanksgiving and New Year’s and I think we managed it this year. But I did have time-off that I needed to burn up this year or [...]
I bought Borderlands on Wednesday after much soul-searching (I didn’t finish Fallout 3, which is in a similar market segment, probably because it was too creepy). Fallout 3 is Role Playing Game that is also a First Person Shooter. In contrast, Borderlands is a First Person Shooter that is also a Role Playing Game.
Here are a couple of middle-term geeky purchases I am planning.
For the unintiated, WiiWare is the Nintendo Wii’s downloadable library of new games to play. They used to only have Virtual Console, which consisted of ports from older console games (i.e. the older Nintendos, Segas, etc.) that you could pay a few dollars in Wii Points to download and play, but now with WiiWare, there’s [...]
So I downloaded Fable II Pub Games a few days ago and have been steadily accumulating inventory items and unlocking higher stakes games. (I probably will buy and play Fable II, probably with the birthday mad money my Mom sent me – Thanks Mom!)
This evening, while unlocking higher stakes games in Keystone (which is a [...]
Yesterday evening was a great deal of fun.
Worms: A Space Oddity
I’ve always loved the Worms francise, and a move back to 2D will probably be a good idea. I do have the 3D games, but they were harder to control and part of the joy of the Worms games is that they’re simple so you can get down to the business of [...]