Musings of a technophile

OnLive is a new gaming service which will basically let you play PC games, even if you don’t have a beefed up gaming PC. How it does this is simple: The game runs through cloud servers (basically multiple servers working as one), and the outputted video is streamed to your PC. As you play the game, the input is sent back to the server in order to control your… Continue reading

The trailer is out for Dead Space 2, have a look here.

Dead Space was one of my favorite games last year, so I really can’t wait for this one to come out. The combination of the emptiness of space and the horror that can occur is awesome. You step into a room through an airlock and that room has a hole into space where meteor hit the… Continue reading

I recently played this game from EA that was called “Mirror’s Edge” which, like Portal did last year, brings a different type of game play to light. The game is actually based on Parkour, which is basically a way to move from one place to another using more efficient means, instead of the normal path. For example – let’s say you need to get down two flight of stairs, that… Continue reading

Last night I posted about the major patch on UT III that was in the works. Today I found the details of that patch and I thought I would post it here. It really is astonishing how many changes are in store for this game. I really hope this patch will bring life back into the UT series.

One thing I do wonder though, is that with all… Continue reading

Unreal Tournament is a very special game to me, as it probably is the game I have played more than any other. I started playing it back in late 2000, and I played it pretty much every night for hours every night for about 6-7 years (I switched to UT 2004 in late 2003 though). Even now I still start a game up every now and then just to remember… Continue reading

The second expansion pack to Half Life 2, Episode 2, continues the story of Gordon and Alyx immediately the event of Episode 1. While Episode 1 was about escaping from City 17, which left the entire game taking place in an urban environment, Episode 2 has a more outdoors environment. Most of the game is spent either in mine shafts, in rural area’s or forests. This gives the game… Continue reading

It’s been a while since I played Half Life 2. I played it almost immediately after it came out, and found it to be an incredible game. The amount of detail put into the game is great – from unique weapons like the gravity gun, the the detail on some textures, to the extensiveness of the AI.

Fast forward a couple years – a friend of mine bought me… Continue reading

So I’m playing this game now called “Dead Space” that recently came out. While I believe you can play it on the XBox 360 or the Playstation 3, it is a FPS and therefore I would not recommend playing it unless you are on the PC. I never understood FPS on a console – you don’t have a mouse, therefore you cannot be precise, therefore they have to change the… Continue reading

So this last weekend I finally got around to beating BioShock for the first time. I started BioShock on November 20th of last year, and have played it VERY rarely since then, which is why it took me a whole year to beat it.

BioShock is a FPS where you play the role of Jack, a plane crash victim that survives the crash only to discover you are in… Continue reading