Game Over: Final Thoughts on Game Dev Story (iPhone/iPod)

Game Dev Story is a management type game not unlike Diner Dash and its ilk. The game is as meta as it can get: you are the head of a videogaming company and it's your task to create blockbuster games for the console of your choice from many available genres and themes using a pool of different types of developers which you can train in many different ways.

Code Monkeys!

Wii 2? Wii U!

Nintendo, not to be outdone in the crappily-named-new-console department, officially announced the successor to the Wii, the Wii U (ugh).

Wii U (ugh) console and controller

Playstation Vita Unveiled

Sony finally unveiled the details on Playstation Portable's successor: the Playstation Vita (ewww).

Playstation Vita

It's Aliiiiive!

After more than a month since the hacking, the Playstation Network is finally available in the Asian regions.

I turned on my grimy and possibly no longer portable PSP and retrieved my two free games.

This is not mine. And this is actually a mod. Ick.

The choices weren't that palatable, but free is free *shrug* And because I historically get bored easily with racing games,I chose Little Big Planet and Killzone over ModNation Racers and Pursuit Force.

And now I have to buy a bigger Memory Card. Bah.

Game Over: Final Thoughts on Earthworm Jim HD (BadaOS)

I am a slightly proud owner of the first gen Samsung Wave. While it boasts of a gorgeous Super AMOLED screen wrapped in a very sophisticated looking body, its BadaOS still leaves a lot to be desired. It is functional, yes, but the different niggles can be quite grating at times.

My precioussssss

WoW Naman - Holy Paladin-ing Revisited

Out of morbid curiosity, I tried out my holy paladin spec, the healing paladin specialization, just to see how much more complicated it is now than it was before. I did not want to make random people suffer by getting into a random dungeon, so I tried my luck in PVP using the random battlegrounds where dying is more the rule rather than an exception.

Holy. Paladin. Skulls. I swear, there's a healer there somewhere

I fell in love. I used to think that Alliance PVP sucks, but since I entered as a Holy Paladin, around 8 or so groups so far, the winning rate is a smidgen above 50%. That's more than I ever experienced PVPing with my other specs/characters. It is also a joy imagining the frustration of players trying to kill me, unless ganged up on by two or more, in futility.

I would like to think I made a difference. Di naman mayabang no?

One Small Step (again) - Initial impressions on The Dig (PC)

Last December, at Steam's Christmas sale, the Lucasarts Adventure Bundle, a collection of classic adventure games went up. It had The Dig, which was, aside from Grim Fandango, one of the last classic adventure games I've been dying to play my whole life.