Late on Thursday evening I received an email from an ex-Automattic friend who asked if my Steam account was compromised because he received a message from me saying, [8:34 PM]DOC: What’s up mate [8:45 PM]DOC: may i ask u favor?sorry for disturbing u btw I don’t call anyone “mate”, I […]
Games
Dyson Sphere Program
Build machines to automate building more machines to automate researching new technologies to build more machines and eventually build a Dyson Sphere around the local sun. Rinse and repeat in a new solar system. There’s so much in this early access game but even at this early stage I can […]
Games
Creeper World 3 – Fortress Siege
This game is ridiculous. I love it. If you’re a fan of tower defense games you’ll love this real time strategy game. Wikipedia describes it as a, mix of real-time strategy and tower defense, where there is only one enemy and it can only be repelled rather than destroyed. The […]
Games
You Have To Win The Game
What game? No, that’s the title of a free game on Steam and on the Commodore 64! The C64 version can be found here on CSDb while the Steam version is here. The Steam version works on Windows, Mac and 32 bit Linux! A comment on the original announcement post […]
Games
I guess I haven’t bought anything on Steam recently …
This is what happens when you have Humble Bundles and a backlog of games. Speaking of backlogs, one game I really enjoyed that I bought got in a Humble Bundle ages ago but never played until recently was Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. If we’re friends on Steam, chances are […]
Games
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal – Farbor
Creeper World 3 is a sort of a tower defence game but it’s more a real time strategy (RTS) game. You move your pieces to combat the relentless Creeper as it flows over everything to consume the map. It’s a mostly easy-going game as you can pause and consider your […]
Games
Delete the junk that games and apps leave behind in Windows
Use CCleaner and winapp2 to clean out the junk left behind by Steam installers, temporary files, cache files and more. Before you run this make sure you play all your Steam games at least once or you’ll have to “verify integrity of game cache” of each which will force a […]
Linux
Go on back to Linux will ya!
I’m back in the world of Linux on my desktop machine again. Well, mostly. Desktop Linux has been a “thing” for so long now it’s a cliche but I used it as such for well over a decade and it wasn’t until I was lured away by the shiny games […]
Games
The prisoners are escaping!
Prison Architect is a game where you design and run an ever expanding prison. It’s still in early access but the developers bring out a new update every month. The latest update introduced random characteristics for new prisoners. For example, some will be volatile and cause a riot for no […]
Games
How well does Steam In-Home Streaming work?
Steam In-Home Streaming allows you to stream a game from one machine on a network to another. The idea being that your powerful desktop machine will run the game and stream the picture and perform input/output through a weak computer attached to a living room TV. One of the problems […]