Forsa geforce!

Update!

Finally! Took it's time, hope it was worth waiting for!

Ordered last Monday but Kjell&CO didn't deliver until Friday and I had to waste a whole weekend on riding my bike and not play Starcraft2! ;)

Can't wait to fire up the GeForce GTS250 and see how well it preforms, hopefully I can use the Ultra-setting!

Well, way better than my old gfx card anyway, and it was quite inexpensive. Not a big gamer...

Update!

Ultra-setting on everything, Reflections is on, Models is High, not sure if it's the highest setting?

I'm more than pleased, totaly OK for a graphics card I payed 650:- SEK for! =)

The gameplay in Starcraft 2 looked sweet now by the way...

"Lost Viking"

Sorry, can't keep from posting this. There is a "Easter Egg" in Startcraft 2, when getting access to the cantina on Jim Raynor's ship, the Hyperion, one can play a arcade game called the "Lost Viking"!

Only played a few levels but it's actually a decent old school kind of "shoot 'em up" game, thank you Blizzard! :)

"Hell, it's about time!"

It's finally here!



Starcraft 2 has landed! And if the Swedish postal service gets it's thumbs out of it's a** I might have it in the mailbox today...

If they ever make a full length movie in the same class as the game trailer I would stand in line at the cinema! =)

Defence Grid

Just bought a game from Steam, Defence Grid - The Awakening. Purchasing online is way too easy, the price is low enough to make you think it's worth it and after giving them your credit card information you just download the game to your PC, there is even a function to make a backup of the game install-files for later.

I admit I downloaded a illegal copy on Internet earlier but I think the game was good enough to pay for, so who says that pirating games don't generate money?! ;)

Now I noticed there is a demo version available to download from Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/18510/

Stem powered games is the wave of the future! Won't write anything more now, have to play some more...

Defense Grid: The Awakening (PC) - video 1 (HD) from Hidden Path Entertainment on Vimeo.

Coming early December 2008 for the PC, Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base. Beautiful environments, spectacular effects, and a dynamic, engaging soundtrack bring the world to life. The controls are intuitive and the gameplay is deep - the special attacks and properties of each tower work together to provide many ways to succeed.

Maybe I'll wait for the next version?

Will be interesting too see what price tag there will be on the iPad in Sweden, the photo app seems really sweet and is almost a reason by it self to get one, not to mention how well Bejeweled 2(3?) might run on it! That poor glass will be grinded useless in a few months! :)

Fast forward to the end, that speed impresses me most.


This will for sure be the most misunderstood device since MacBook Air...

Barf fun?!

Apparantly! Crazy games... :)

Critter Crunch PSN Debut Trailer from Capy! on Vimeo.

Trailer:

Critter Crunch - A BARF IN THE NIGHT - Launch Trailer! from Capy! on Vimeo.

8-bit trip

Got a link from a friend, turned out to be a really cool music video involving LEGO and chip music! =)

Tile time...

Did manage to squeeze in some Mahjong playing this weekend,we met at my sisters place and halfway we took a break and had a BBQ, Hanna had made some delicious tzatziki and own roasted potatoes to go with the bbq:ued meat!

We were so fast that we did two matches the same evening, the last one took a bit longer but finally Hanna stood as the winner.

My sister was kind enough to send me graphs of the game progress!

Game one: Robert got most points with 2814 total at the end, I almost managed to catch up after loosing the lead at the end.
Game two: After Hanna scored a "stricke" non of us did manage to catch up, I did lousy until the end when I suddenly managed to score some big hands and got past Robert! :)

Well, better luck next time! :)

Ye olde tune

Having a bad cold right now and not being able to do anything physical I found my self googling on old Atari ST games and remembered a game with a jester that had a tune that I liked, this was perhaps 1988 or 1989, only 20 years ago. =)

After some hardcore powergoogling I managed to find out that the game was called Black Lamp and the character you played was called Jack the Jester. Never finished the game, which was pretty difficult if I remember correctly but the tune got stuck in my mind.

After I found out the games name I could find the title tune on YouTube but still couldn't find the tune I remembered.

This is the title song:

After yet some more googling I located the Atari ST YM2149 archive After downloading the whole archive and unpacking it I had to find a player and there was a link to WinJAM (Just Another Music player). Works great, small and nimble!

Lo and behold, the second track was the tune I was looking for! Wanted to put the tune on the net but didn't know how to 'rip' the music so I started to look for a audio ripper that could rip music directly from the sound card.

Found s software that I think I have used some time before OpD2d. After installing it I noticed that there was a red dot in the JAM-player, after pressing it I could make a WAV-file directly from JAM!! Doh! :)


Choose HD for best sound quality

While looking for the tune on YouTube it turned out that the tune was based on "Greensleeves" also called "What child is this". When thinking about it I suppose I have heard it sometime.

Found several versions on YouTube:











And yes, I'm getting bored being sick... ;)

Tile time.

Tuesday evenings are game evenings. Mahjong is the game, it has been going so-so but the last two games sessions it has started to go better, managed to score some points going mahjong but not getting any big scores! =)

The scores was extremely even after several rounds but this evening there was a jackpot, will take some luck to try catch up! We had call the "Mahjong Guru" to settle how much points I should get after getting a mahjong with all my tiles still on hand. It did how ever, not give that much points after all. Well, soon the second full game will be over. Fun fun! :)

Space Invaders IRL!

Lots of music videos lately but here's another one. Heard Röyksopp's "Happy Up Here" on radio but never saw the video until now. Really like it! Both the tune AND specially the video. :)


Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Official video for the first single from 'Junior'!

Directed by Reuben Sutherland

http://royksopp.com/music/happy-up-here

Old-school style

Stumbled on a link to this page: http://runhello.com/

It has the look of and game play style of old games, very simple graphics but that's secondary, it's all about the game play. =)

The info on the developer page sums it up well:

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FEATURES

• Old-school puzzle platforming with some twists
• Low-definition graphics
• Gamepad support
• Full level editor

PLOT

• Guide Jumpman to the exit.

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Here you can download both a windows and a macintoch version of this game:

It's around 3mb small and for FREE! :)

When unzip:ed you start by opening the .exe file and start playing, starts off pretty simple and very soon it starts to get harder to progress. It's one of those 'just-another-level-then-I-quit' kind of games. :)

Game Music

Never played the game "Alone in the Dark" but I think the music is nice. Apparently it's now a movie too:

Tiësto presents Alone In The Dark - Edward Carnby (Tiësto Music Video)


Kind of reminds me of Ghost in the Shell (great movie by the way!).

Like a bridge...

Hohoo! Found a Brige Builder 'look-a-like' flash game:




Can't write more, have to play! =)

Mad World

Still new to this bloging stuff so I'm just testing to embed some video on the blog.



This one is a bit funny too. :)