Reasons for “Living”: Cornucopius!
June 20, 2008
Okay. With some confidence I can finally say that I’m no longer sick. I don’t know if anyone else gets this, but I’m always left with a little more energy and enthusiasm in the aftermath of illness. To whit, the future seems very bright indeed:
- Normally I would pillory EA for something like this, but this week’s release of the stand-alone Spore Creature Creator is a great idea. For $10, you get a neat little program to make pretty much any kind of alien critter imaginable. The best thing is that Abigail has totally fallen in love with it and has come up with some cool alien designs already. I’ll have to upload some of them to the now 500,000 + strong Sporepedia.
- Another major update in Team Fortress 2 land gives the Pyro class a much needed shot in the arm. I love playing the Pyro but his survivability leaves much to be desired. Hopefully I’ll have some time to take him for a test run this weekend.
- If there was any doubt, MGS4 will never be ported to another console. The PS3 is a technological marvel but it is somewhat disheartening that it’s taken until now for a game to really push the hardware. I’m not that far into MGS4 but what with the graphical fidelity and blatant Sony product placement, we’ll never see Snake on the 360. And yes, a review of both console and game will come someday…
- The Inquisitor’s Handbook and Purge the Unclean finally came out for Dark Heresy. Looks like they’ll be just as hard to find as the main rulebook, at least until the publishing rights flip over to Fantasy Flight Games. I found my copies by surprise at 401 Games yesterday and the quality is consistent with the core hardcover. Man I want to play this game…
- One of my favourite podcasts (I only listen to three on a regular basis), Fear the Boot, is undergoing some changes due to host burnout. Rather than let podcast fade away, they’re going to mix the format up a bit with different kinds of shows: fiction readings, RPG discussion and media criticism. The former doesn’t interest me much, but the latter two will keep me engaged.
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