Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Blood & Oil
This past Sunday I helped run Gifts for Geeks’ first Hordes/Warmachine Tournament; Blood & Oil. Overall it was a great day and hopefully I’ll be able to help run future events like it too. Here’s some pics from the day and congrats to Chris and Spencer on 1st and 2nd place!
Space Wolf Eagerness
My old wolf featured buddies are on the horizon, getting a revamp next month, and obviously this has gotten me quite frothy about them again.
Digging through my old bits and bobs I’ve mustered together some Forge World terminators as a start to my new force, along with a couple of random marines I can use as testers for a quick and easy painting method I’m planning – inspired by my mate Ant’s method for death guard.
I’m also planning to get my hands on as many helmetless heads as possible and do my entire force without helmets – wolves don’t need poxy helmets interfering with their heightened senses!
Modern Warfare 2
Not long to go now until Modern Warfare 2 is upon us! It’s so tempting when you’re self employed to take some time off purely to play a new video game…
Noticed a new video for it today on their website – looks amazing I can’t wait!
Legend of Mir Returns…
Years ago while studying at University there was a game. A game that introduced me to the genre of MMORPGs. A game that, while simple on the surface, gave me hours of enjoyment and excitement. This game was Legend of Mir 2.
Back then, the game was run by some Italians who had a “don’t give a crap” attitude, but we still persisted. In the end I gave in and stopped playing. Now though, some Americans have taken over and I’ve got the bug back, downloaded and started playing the other day – good times!
FPS Woes
On friday I found a new free online FPS (First Person Shooter) game for the PC which looked quite good, so I decided to go ahead and download it and see what it was like. Oh what fun!
First I struggled to actually download it. Their website was slow and temperamental. The downloader once it got it working was the same too, downloaded half of it and stopped. Finally finished off the download yesterday, only to install, launch the game, and it can’t connect to the server! Tried again today and the same thing happened. So back to the website I go – without realising I had downloaded the Korean version of the game!
OK I’m willing to accept myself being a noob and downloading from the wrong site (it could be a bit clearer though!). The European site was all good, fast download and away I went. Great I thought, I’ll finally be able to give it a try.
No.
Apparently it can’t run because of some corrupt file, and looking at their FAQ it’s a known problem that they are trying to fix. I get as far as logging in and there’s a problem “they’re trying to fix”??
So, after all this, my original idea was to do a bit of a review of the game – but I can’t. So it’ll have to be a 0/10 unless I finally get to play it!