I played Dino D-Day and I was slightly less than impressed. At the time (during the beta) there were only a couple of servers and only myself and another player between all of them. The Cynical Brit has plenty to say about it too however, hardly any of it good. (via)
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Serious Fun with Serious Sam 2
I remember playing the Serious Sam games years ago but the HD remakes are so pretty and still just as much fun! Love them!
Mafia II is 75% off
Mafia II is 75% off on Steam right now. I’ve played about 2 hours of the game and it’s an enjoyable sandbox world very like Grand Theft Auto IV, but set in the 1940’s.
Just be aware that you might be paying over the odds by as much as 48%, depending on where you live. Ask a US friend to gift it for you if you can!
The Gamer’s Craic #3
Episode 3 of The Gamer’s Craic podcast is now live, with the “guest this time is NGT director and Hupit bod Gary, AKA Hypermole and also mole237 on YouTube.” David did a great job of editing it as always. Thanks Gary for coming on the show!
It was a laugh doing it, but DO NOT listen past the end. No good will come of listening past the end jingle. No, do not do it. Really!
Also this morning episode 14 of the Don’t Revive Me Bro podcast was released with Daniel Matros, aka zh1nt0 who talked at length about Battlefield and other things.
Android Playstation Emulator goes Free!
Fly! Fly away! Be free!
In other news, the Playstation emulator for Android (PSX4Droid) that Google booted off the Android Market is now open source and you can grab source and binaries from here. If you’re impatient get the apk here and install in the usual way on your phone. (via)
Now, how do I load a PS1 CD into my phone?
Rain and snow in Minecraft
The next Minecraft update brings achievements and weather effects. Looks good, but odd going from rain to snow and back again. Still working on it I see. (via)
Akismet Asteroids
Akismet, the anti comment spam service run by Automattic recently announced that they had stopped 25 billion spam messages.
It’s quite an achievement of course and worth worth celebrating with a game of Asteroids. I’ll let you find the game yourself, it’s not hard to do so! 🙂
Painkiller!
No, not the podcast, but a Polish game released in 2004 and it’s on gog.com now. Yesterday it was priced at $3.99 and I jumped at the chance after watching the Zero Punctuation review and a couple of Youtube gameplay videos. Looks very old school like Quake, Doom or Serious Sam!
It’s back to $9.99 now however.
Battlefield 3 news coming tomorrow
Two days ago a Battlefield 3 PR event was held in London according to this thread but you won’t be hearing about it until tomorrow as there’s a news embargo until then and I guess nobody is as big as Techcrunch so they won’t break it. Nevertheless…
Ok, so they didnt let us near the machines to play it as its pre-alpha code (and even in the demo it crashed occasionally).
Also, they wouldnt talk about certain aspects. (boooo)
And they have embargoed the whole world from talking about until the 8th (Friday). So, until then, all I can really say is “wow… it looks awesome and I seriously think I might play this”.
I have answers to some of your questions but they were quite tight lipped but I’ll tell you what I know come Friday.
DeV.
Keep an eye on the Battlefield forum at boards.ie tonight then!
Gaming History in Pictures
A few games I found recently while sorting through boxes at home:
- Quake 3 tin box, Linux edition. I wrote an article about this for the Irish Times a few years ago.
- Double Dragon, C64 version, I posted pictures of this before of course.
- Gyroscope, the first 5 1/4 disk based game I owned on the C64. It was given to me by someone, can’t remember who now but I used it later for Stunt Car Racer and even printed the loading screen from that game on a dot matrix printer for the disk cover.
- The excellent Stunt Car Racer manual and box cover.
- The System 3 Premier Collection and Thalamus The Hits compilations were the pride of my games collection at one time. I still remember the excitement of getting those boxes in the post.
- C64 Cabal, tape version. Brilliant game. I remember spending as much time tinkering with the game ASM code as playing it..
- Half Life 2 Collector’s Edition and Half Life 1. Steam was launched when HL2 was released and I was recently able to register the HL1 CD key in Steam and download that great game.
