Category Archives: video games

Starcraft 2

I had to admit I was wrong a few weeks ago. I refused to accept any of the hype leading up to the launch of Starcraft 2 and I insisted that I wouldn’t buy it. That the game was simply a rehash of the original being that the style of the RTS is mostly unchanged [...]

Games of the past

I’ve stopped myself from buying an abundance of new games over the last few months believing that they would distract me from school since I was already playing Left 4 Dead 2 and Borderlands as well as trying to rewatch all of Battlestar Galactica. During those lulls where I did have time I have started [...]

Modern Warfare 2

I’m mentally torn at how to proceed with Modern Warfare 2. On the one hand, the game is supposed to be an extremely well made game. Perhaps the best shooter since the previous Modern Warfare. However, there are things that Activison, the publishing company, and Infinity Ward, the developers, have done that clearly show an [...]

Ideas are fleeting

I really need to get into the habit of writing ideas down when they come to me. Sometime in the past few days, I can’t even remember when god I’m an old man, I came up with a wonderful idea for a novel. One of those ideas where once you have the first image in [...]

Waiting on Wave

Thanks to the kindness of @serial I was able to get a Google Wave invite. Unfortunately Google is holding onto most of the user invites for now. According to twitter people who have been invited by wave users, not google, are starting to get their invitations in their email. So I’m impatiently waiting on Google. [...]

Strategy against the Ottoman

The Polish military has finally  been able to secure the African coast, recruiting troops as they captured cities and sending these rookie troops into battle so they gain experience. Now with all North African nations under polish control with the exception of Egypt, controlled by the Ottoman Empire,  we have a staging area and nearly [...]

GTA 4 RAGE

It felt like someone completely pulled the rug out from under me. I was enjoying Grand Theft Auto 4 very much, but all of a sudden my progress grinded to a halt. I had taken the mission called “Last Interview” and had to wait for a phone call before starting on the mission. But the [...]