Peer Pressure Works!

  Yes indeed, it is a new adaptation of XCom : UFO Defense called…well…XCom : UFO Defense. People online have been going nuts. I…actually, I was initially a bit blah about the whole thing. See, I’ve played XCom. Played the shit out of it. So if all this was going to be is a fresh coat of paint on the same game, why exactly would I be all that interested? I hate to start shooting [...]

This is going to be a quick one, simply because I don’t want to give too much away. This game is packed full of awesome. Beautiful, ridiculous awesome. And to spoil too much of that would be criminal. This is one of those ‘do whatever the Hell you want’ sort of games, like Grand Theft Auto. But like Grand Theft Auto with the insanity meter cranked up to about 217. A few bits I will [...]

Time for a rant! I realize that I’ve generally been pretty effusive with my praise and positivity when discussing board games. Outside of a few games I mentioned during the blog challenge that were disappointing, things haven’t been bad at all. And that’s probably a little weird coming from me. Thanks to Battles of Westeros, I can now amend that with some anger and annoyance. Thanks, Fantasy Flight! Battles of Westeros is part of the [...]

I am a bit of a fan of the Warhammer 40K universe. I read the fiction. I own a couple of the board/card games. I love the Dawn of War & DoW 2 series on PC. I don’t play the table top game, though. I ain’t about to drop thousands of dollars on a bunch of tanks I then spend dozens of hours painting, only to return home in defeat because some 17 year old [...]

This weekend, I finished 2 games. One was Bastion, the other was Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2. Both took about 5 hours or so to play through. Both cost me $15. While MW2 was sorta fun with a plot that may have been written by drunken 15 year olds, Bastion was one of the better games I’ve played this year. A cataclysmic event known only as ‘The Calamity’ has ripped your world apart. [...]