I heard about this new indy release while listening to the PC Gamer podcast on my commute this morning. After checking out the website, I must say I’m very eager to check it out. Torchlight appears to be a Diablo-style, loot-collecting action RPG, and the art design is a gorgeous-looking cartoonish, steampunk / fantasy hybrid. [...]
I’ve become quite a soundtrack fanboy over the past year or so. My responsibilities at work have shifted such that I’m spending much more time in my office and less in the lab. That said, my brain is wired in a fashion where music with lyrics is very distracting when I’m writing or reading. To [...]
After even more grunt work (pun intended – read on) on the Patio from Heck, I did free up a few hours last evening to continue with my RTS experiment while enjoying a few frosty homebrews. Starcraft looked much better than I’d expected. You have to credit Blizzard’s artists when a 640×480 game still looks [...]
The past few evenings, I’ve been greatly enjoying a playthrough of the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II demo. DoW2 is a recent real time strategy game release for Windows machines only. Those following my Twitter feed will know that I’m a Mac-only cat these days. So, to give DoW2 a whirl, I installed Windows [...]
Well, I finally succumbed again to Azeroth’s siren call and logged back onto World of Warcraft to explore the Wrath of the Lich King expansion’s new continent of Northrend. I must say that WotLK offers the most engrossing and innovative WoW quest content to date. Blizzard has also managed to reduce the drudgery a bit [...]