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Achievement based unlocks are back for the Sniper/Spy, baby! ^^

Valve just released an update to Team Fortress 2 that, among other bugfixes, allows the item unlocks via Sniper/Spy achievements.  This doesn’t mean that the random item drops were removed (though they did do some back-end tweaking recently), but now you have a more deterministic method of getting your weapon unlocks… for the Sniper and [...]

BattleForge Play4Free

Although I dislike the artificial inflation of prices typical in collectible games, I must admit that some of them, notably MtG, is extremely well made.   So, this game’s concept, collectible cards to be used for RTS style battles, piqued by interest ever I heard about the beta, but somehow I never got around to trying [...]

Team Fortress 2 Sniper vs Spy Update

[update 3]

Looks like they put back Achievement based unlocks for the Sniper/Spy!

[update 2]

Erik Johnson from the Official TF2 Blog made a post regarding their intentions on the new system.  The system is intended to be time based, which should give more items for players who play more.  Items are to be made tradable, which explains [...]

Thank Akibakada for brightening a doleful day

This Monday in particular didn’t start-off too well for me, I was pretty down for much of the day.  Good thing I decided to drop by National Bookstore and look around, else I wouldn’t have noticed that this was already out:

I’m not sure how long Akibakada‘s (Beerkada #9) been available, I’m [...]

PC Street Fighter IV considerations

We already know that the PC release of Street Fighter IV is early July (July 2 for Japan, July 7 for US).  It’s been around two weeks since the release date announcement was made, and details on the release have slowly been trickling-in.  For a guy who has no console, this is a must-buy.  Unfortunately, [...]

Take D&D 4e for a free spin to see if it’s for you

So you’ve been hearing about this D&D thing for some time now, and particularly how this “4e” thing is supposed to be more newbie/video-gamer friendly.  But you just can’t justify shelling out more than US$100  just to see if something you already find iffy is actually a gem.  Fortunately Wizards of the Coast (WotC) is [...]