2012 Gaming Season

Started the new list of games tonight. Now that I'm down to about one solid gaming slot a week it's going to be a lot harder to get through. And if course King Kong is just around the corner...

"Batman: Arkham City"
First impression - I'm only about an hour in and, much like the first game it's been a lot of cut scene. I'm a bit worried about the pacing. I've already had pop ins from Cat Woman, Penguin , Two Face and the Joker. Game play seems to be the same formula though which is good.

"Skyrim"
When on earth am I going to ever have enough time to play this monster. Don't misunderstand, this is a fabulous game, but I just don't have this kind of time.

"Deus Ex: the new one"
Which I keep forgetting the actual name of. Looks like a really cool shooter, but it's down on my list for now.

New on the RADAR is "Syndicate", which is a shooter redux of the RTS ( yes it was) I loved in concept back in the day. Looks a lot like Deus Ex.

And of course the Gorilla could be just around the corner. Or not. Bliz is being as tight lipped as usual. I may sneak into EB and pre order the fancy box. I promised myself I wouldn't do that again but...

Star Trek online is free after jan 17. It's almost worth it, except my time issue means MMOs are contra indicated.

and I only need to kill about 27000 more orks for the 40000 achieve in Space Marine.

Mail Order Monsters

I know, you've never heard of it. Well, back in the day it was a sci-fi, arena fighting game. It had multiplayer. Each player selected a creature (called a "morph") and gene moded it, strapped on some weapons and tried to wreak havoc on the other morphs. Kudos to the winner.

EA should really consider doing a console update for this. In fact I wonder who actually owns the rights to it.

If you don't mind straying into grey legal territory it can still be found in the wild web for play on a C64 emulator like WinVICE.

Sigh - Mouse woes continue

I just can't stand it any more. The G7 flakes out at the WORST possible times. I'm back to the MX510 for the time being. I'm eyeing the Razor, but I'm so used to the shape of this mouse now I'm not sure how to adapt.

If only the sensor on the G7 hadn't spoiled me. The MX now feels like the sensor is coated in Vaseline. Not that I would know how that is. Really.

Stop looking at me like that.

Any ways, I'm not spending more than $10 on a mouse before I try it. I borrowed a buddies g500, but it suffers from being jittery - it doesn't slide smoothly across the pad. Gah.

I need a jack.

G7 Update

Well, I've laboured on with the G7. In the end, when it functions, it's the best mouse I own. The biggest thing is:

Don't trust the battery display!

When it starts to whig out, I swap batteries. This seems to keep the connection issues in check.

BTW - if you have a G13 game pad, I highly recommend you update to the Logitech v7 software. It seems to have corrected a lot of the flakiness.