Alan’s Blog

I seem to recall saying I would endeavour to update this more often. Currently I’m probably going to have to go with once a month. Things are happening. Quite a few things. But it’s all work related, and I can’t talk about it.

Things I can talk about:

• I finally watched the Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns. A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Really enjoyed them. I had heard a lot of people say the last one was the best, but personally I enjoyed the first two a bit more. Overall though, they lived up to everything I’d heard and a lot more. Highly recommended.
• I picked up the PopCap Collection off Steam. I’d played a few of the trial versions before and had spent far too much time in the past playing the online free versions. My favourites are still AstroPop, Bookworm and Zuma - however some of the others seem like they could grow on me. Paul has been playing a lot of Talismania, which seems pretty cool.
• Also on Steam, I picked up the Uplink/Darwinia pack. I haven’t had a chance to really get into Darwinia yet, but I played the crap out of the Uplink Demo back in the day. If you haven’t played Uplink, you should. It’s pure awesomeness. Also looking forward to Defcon, which is coming out soon (this month apparently). It looks exactly like Global Thermonuclear War from Wargames, which is awesome.
• Played a bit of ShadowGrounds as well, which seems like a lot of fun. Was hoping for LAN co-op rather than same screen co-op. But oh well, any co-op is good co-op.

I might update some more a bit later, but I need to head out for lunch now.

Update

On the Xbox side:

• I’ve been playing Lego Star Wars (2 player). That game is too much fun. We’ve finished the story and are currently going back through again to get all the Mini Kit and Super Kit pieces.
• We’ve also been playing Hunter: The Reckoning (3 player), which is a blast. It’s getting a touch frustrating due to the difficulty level, I’m thinking the balancing isn’t quite right with 3 players in the game (either that, or we just suck ). Regardless, it’s been fun. We’ve got Hunter: The Reckoning - Redeemer on the horizon too, which we might try out just to see if it’s better balanced.

That’s it for now.