This doesn't have much to do with Gaming

... but you should watch it anyways.

What games do you want?

It is almost Christmas time so lets see some wishlists. Even if you know you won't get it, what do you want that is currently out? For me it is these in no particular order:

• Serious Sam 3 (PC)
• The One Ring: Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild (Tabletop RPG)
• Those Who Walked Amongst Us (Tabletop RPG)
• Kirby's Return to Dreamland (Wii)
• Deus Ex (PC)
• The Oregon Trail (Wii)
• More models for Anima Tactics
• Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon (Wii)

Feel free to post some of your own lists.

This is how you stop online "Piracy"

Serious Sam: BFE "Begone Freeloading Enemies" has introduced a clever way of dealing with pirates. Stick an unkillable foe that follows them and torments them in the game. Way to go Croteam!

He is done

Natakue is done with Greed Workshop and I think it is about time. What do you think?

A Touch of Evil

So for the last two months "A Touch of Evil" has been the game of choice for my local group of gamers on a friday night. This game by Flying Frog Productions seems to hit all the key points for use to enjoy it. Wonderfully thematic like Arkham Horror, "A Touch of Evil" is very hammer horror movie inspired. It has the roleplaying feel of an in-depth Fantasy Flight game but is far simpler to setup and play so that the Eurogame fans in our group are willing to play it. It has competitive, cooperative, and team play to satisfy all of us. In fact we have so far been playing almost entirely team based.

For the Anima Tactics fans

Here is another little Black Sun sneak peek. You are free to repost it and discuss it, just be sure to mention you saw it here first!

Cool stuff from PAX

Okay, barring any bad things from Google here is my long overdue post about PAX. So I'll break out the Geek Chic bell display and hope to keep away all the bad things.

Updates coming again!

Yay! Google got pictures working again. So now in addition to the below blog entry I can get caught up on a host of blog entries including PAX, A Touch of Evil, D&D, and a lot more.

Oh, and the job situation is looking very good for a change. So look for a lot more goodies in the coming weeks!

The Hunter: An Anima Tactics sneak peek

I got the permission from the guys at Cipher Studios to show this beauty off!

What do you think?

Blogger bugs

Well, I wanted to post some PAX updates with lots of pictures. But Blogger is bugging out and all my pictures get miscolored. Fix it Google!

Also, my posting time is pretty well limited to Sundays as I'm working 6 day weeks. I still want to talk about all the awesome stuff which happened at PAX this year and fun and excitement to come!

PAX Exhaustion

Oni outside PAX

Still too tired and things are too crazy to really write up everything that went on at PAX. So detailed reviews are going to take some days or weeks to get published. Initial takes though was that this PAX was bigger than ever before for good and bad. I do not know how they will cope in future years as PAX is already busting at the seems for all the convention center has to offer.

I wasn't as impressed with the PC and video game offerings compared to years past. That isn't to say there weren't still a few real gems to be found there. I was more impressed with the board game offerings even though I wasn't as impressed with some of the game companies like Fantasy Flight which didn't seem to have anything to show off post Gencon. They didn't even have some of the things they had at Gencon like the new Anima Beyond Fantasy RPG book.

(I feel asleep last night writing this blog, so I'll end it here)

This is PAX weekend!

I guess I will be blogging a lot in the near future.

Presenting: Maria

The latest addition to my Church force is Maria, and the latest addition to my useful Samael advantage cards is Chaos!

Gamefly Review

So I recently finished a 6 month subscription to Gamefly. I've heard a lot of other reviews of Gamefly both positive and negative so I thought I would throw in my own.

I got the service initially because there were a lot of Wii games I was interested in, but I knew that a lot of them were just garbage and I did not want to buy them unknown or pay blockbuster video's expensive video rental. For the price of two blockbuster videos a month I could simply have gamefly mail them and not worry about blockbuster's availability. Unfortunately at the beginning due to living in the Seattle area I only got two games a month. Initially they didn't have a service center west of the Rockies but this was remedied a few months in with a new distribution center right here in Seattle. This changed the service from waiting a week to a week and a half to get a new game in the mail to getting a new game within 2 mailing days. Vast improvement! 

Miskatonic University Student

I was going to wait until my next game of Arkham Horror to write this, but I decided to get in my first impressions of the new Miskatonic Horror expansion while it is still fresh. The idea of an expansion for the base game and all the expansions of Arkham Horror is a bit off-putting. In practice I think it actually works great and it is a fix for all the Arkham Horror expansions that have been out for a long time and are well known (The revised Dark Pharoah being the exception).