Thanks to GamerDork podcast #038 (with Leigh Alexander weighing-in as guest), I was seriously convinced into giving Sleep is Death a spin.
In a nutshell, Sleep is Death is a two player ONLY game by Jason Rohrer. It’s kinda like the game is actually just an interface for an old school narrative role-playing-game (think DnD without [...]
What practically amounted to a Torchlight marathon from Friday night until most of Saturday left me exhausted, the only reprieve was seeing a KotH map populated in the TF2 server I frequent. I actually love the KotH format, but it gets very few airtime in a rotation server, and the rotation server itself is not [...]
Busy month, last June was. A lot of interesting stuff, and not enough time write lengthy spiels about. Micro-blogging has thankfully allowed me to at least place some of those thoughts on record (which reminds me to look for some means of archiving them properly), but some of them are somewhat significant that I’d like [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
This pretty much sums-up my 1st experience with Team Fortress 2, even if the comic was based on the 360 version.
[ click on the image to see the whole comic. ]
How To Play Team Fortress 2 (360) by Phillip M Jackson
Steam is having a holiday sale! From now until 2009.01/02, there are discounts on everything! The discounts range from 10%-75%, so there be bargains here and there. Portal and Team Fortress 2 are definitely steals at 5 and 10 bucks (though why not just get both and more for 27 bucks?).
I wasn’t [...]
The Orange Box was released on 2007, so getting it just now (as mentioned in my previous post) makes me a bit late in the game. My system can barely run Portal, and I’ve even run out of virtual memory (a problem I rarely encounter).
Still, in my bone-headed desire to fill the time until I [...]
My SO was cool enough to get me Left 4 Dead for her xmas present! Thanks, sweetie! ^^
All I need now is for the new PC to arrive and I’ll be set for the holidays!
— update 2008.12/22 —
It seems I won’t be getting my new PC anytime this year, so no Left 4 [...]