Skyrim Review
This review is quite simply born of necessity. Both me and Tim have played Skyrim and it won our 2011 Game of the Year Award. Really though it's hard to write something about the game that hasn't been said already. Because it's just so damned easy to rave and drool over Skyrim. Hell, if you need to read this to make your decision, allow me to prevent you from having to bother to scroll the read the rating at the bottom. Skyrim is quite simply the best game I have ever played.
Seb’s Skyrim Journal, Part 4 – A Day of Firsts
The weekend saw me having several firsts in Skyrim. Some of them good and some of them bad. All I can really say though is that regardless of whether it was a good or bad first the overall experience of Skyrim has yet to pale and I think has shot to taking the pride of place of my favourite game of all time.
QUBE Review
The lads at Toxic Games were kind enough to give us a review code for QUBE - Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion which I had been looking forward to trying out. Anyway my patience was rewarded and I can now get you this review out just a bare day before it comes out on Steam. For anyone who is interested QUBE comes out on Steam tomorrow (6th january 2011).
The MMGaming Awards
A great many games have won awards over the past month as 2011 draws to a close. But now it is the moment they have surely all been waiting for. The moment for the most prestigious awards ever created in the world of video games... Yes dear friends... I am talking of The MMGaming Awards!
Let us get right down to business!
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome Review
In between various other projects I have on the go at the moment (including those small things... my exams...), I have been playing a bit of the fairly new Indie Game AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome by Dejobaan Games and Owlchemy Labs.
VOID: Impressions
That certainly didn't take long. Immediately after making the news post about VOID, made by some students at DigiPen, I downloaded it and tried it out. It's worth pointing out that as the work of students and not even a full time Indie-game developer the game IS very short. It took me around about 20 minutes to get through the whole game but that was more than enough to form an Impressions on.
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria New Talents
You might well be aware that Blizzard have already announced the next stage for World of Warcraft. A far away and mystical land known as Pandaria. With the traditional plethora of new features and updates has come something which has surprised an awful lot of people and caused a fair amount of uproar in the World of Warcraft community. Blizzard have decided to scrap their traditional Talent Tree system that they have been using for all of the seven years WoW has been active in favour of a new system.
I have decided to tell you a little bit about it and give you my pennies worth.
Star Wars: The Old Republic Impressions
Brace yourselves... this is a long one!
A few things first about this before you start reading this Impressions. Over the weekend beta I managed to clock maybe 5 or so hours of play time, I got to level 10, got a companion, a lightsaber and left the starting area. But in a game of the size and scale of The Old Republic this is barely scratching the surface of the content in the game. I mean, add in all the other classes, all the other worlds, the rest of the story and levels, I didn't even spend more than 5 minutes on the Dark Side so all my experiences comes from the Light Side... Basically this means I only saw a fraction of what the game holds and Tim saw even less. Plus what I did see WAS still in beta so it was buggy and glitchy and not completely finished. As such this will not be a full review and only my impressions formed over my play time.
Gears of War 3 Diary: Final Day
I can't believe it... We've finished it... It's all over...
Yes dear friends! Yesterday evening finally finished Gears of War 3! We were apparently closer to the end than I had previously thought because it didn't take us much more than an hour (maybe an hour and a half) to finish off the campaign to Gears of War 3 while playing Hardcore difficulty. Again, I would like to point out right now that this article may well contain spoilers (I'm not sure what sort yet) so read on at your own peril!