Sooo many games, soooooo little time.

With Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3 and Skyrim already out, it’s hard to find time to enjoy them as it is. Trying to Balance Work, Professional theater, PanCakeBeaver.com, social life and Girlfriend beside the gaming, is hard enough as it is. Now we have two greats games on the way, one with US release the 20th of December namely; Star Wars: The Old Republic. Second one is of cause Diablo 3. Both great game (hopefully, did try Swtor Beta). These titles are both valid reasons for calling in sick one week at the time (of cause I’M not gonna do that)

With new games there is cool opening scenes to sell it. Where both Diablo 3 and Swtor has realeased them,posted here of cause. But to get back to the time issue. I find it harder and harder to find time for everything. Work takes up minimum 8 hours everyday, and the rest takes on my spare time when not sleeping! So you can see that it’s a lot of “hobbies” for the remainder of the time on a day.

PanCakeBeaver is finishing up some Projects for Why not Theatre, Mitrevski.org and myself, more to follow there in another post. Enjoys the posted Game Trailers.

Tags: cake, Diablo, Games, Gaming, Gaming, Gears of War, Girl, hope, lea, life, pancakebeaver, PanCakeBeaver.com, Ping!, Sick, the old republic, Theater, Theatre, trailers, Wazzuup, work

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I’ve invested in the newest version of the Xbox, and there for selling of my older one. There is nothing wrong with the older one at all, but the new one do has some updates to it that feels a bit more appealing to me. It smaller, less loud and uses a bit less power. Plus having it online as i have, the harddisk size is bigger as well. The Xbox 360 I’m selling of is perfectly fine if it’s only to be used as an Arcade machine with no need for online gaming.

To celebrate the xbox i also wanted the entire Drumset rock band kit, and sense i already have one guitar i only needed a drumset, an extra guitar and the game “Rock Band”

I looked at guitars and they all costed about 850 kr for the guitar alone, for the only ones you could get where special editions and crap like that. But found out that for about 350 you could buy “Guitar Hero: Metalica” that included a guitar… Well no need to think about that one. So only the drums left.

Coolshop.dk where i do all my gaming purchases have the drum set for 149 kr. Not bad… not bad at all, but then i would need to get the game on the side somehow. This looks to be harder than first anticipated. Apparently that game is not to dig up anywhere….. But then i saw that coolshop had a kit, where you would get the game “Rock Band 3″ and the drumset for 450 kr. And according to the delivery status the kit sets would be delivered within the week. Woooo hooooo, Rock Band FTW…….

Over two weeks after…. and I’m still waiting for the drums and game to be delivered…. I got the Xbox, Metalica and extra guitar, but no drums to hit yet… So I’m using the guitar to play my Rock Band Blues….

Tags: App, Gaming, Gaming, Mac, Play, Wazzuup, Xbox

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So the weekend is coming to an end. And what did i do with my life this weekend? Well it feels like i have got nothing done, but sometimes having a real chilling weekend might be good for ya. It’s not like i have done nothing at all, but accomplished very little.

Getting of work Friday i had a great taste for beer. (Don’t you always have that on Fridays?) But had nothing planed. I then remembered that Halo: Reach got released some few days ago, and sense I’ve been a fan of the other Halo games (even bought Halo: ODST) i thought to myself, that why not give it a go. So i acquired the game from my local Block Buster and went home, to start up the Campaign. Before i knew it, the time was way to much to be doing anything else and i just as well could keep on playing. So i did till about 3 in the morning.

Saturday i decided to get a bit out, so i arranged to go to my brothers place and see their new house/flat out in Nivå. I had to go to my English group The CTC first, where we are rehearsing the production of “The House of Yes” that premieres around start October. Afterwards i took the train for Nivå to meet the family. We decided to just stay in and have a drink (or many) when my niece was put to bed. My brother had all the ingredients needed to make Black or White Russians. For the Black Russian you just need Vodka and Kahlua, and to make a White you just add some milk afterwards.  Well….. we had a few and went to bed around 4 in the morning.

Returning this Sunday i was pretty much back in a planless weekend, and not because there is that much weekend left, but decided to play a bit more Halo. This is where my accomplishment actually come in, for i succeeded in completing the solo campaign earlier this afternoon. On of my main reasons for loving Halo is for the fun you have when playing this kind of game in Cooperative mode, together with a friend or friends. Problem is just, that i don’t have any online who also have the game! So if you have the game, let me know, so we can complete it again in cooperative mode on Heroic mode!

Well, weekend is over and work is calling once again in the morning. Should go to bed a bit earlier than 3 and 4 in the morning! Woop woop

Tags: Beer, Black Russian, brother, CTC, family, gallery, Game. The House of Yes, Games, Gaming, Halo Reach, lea, life, Niece, Play, Review, sunday, The House of Yes, Wazzuup, Weekend, white russian, work, Xbox

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Ever stood before a choice where you just wished you had the option to get back to the point before making the choice, just in case it goes terrible wrong? Computers and games figured this out a long time ago. Like in Windows driver rollback and Mac’s Time machine software.

Not so long ago i noticed my cousin play a game called Mount and Blade: Warband though the Steam system, and after a brief talk i decided to give it a try while it was on sale. The game itself is post by itself (that i will probably not write), but what i want to mention is the save system.

While many games let you save anytime you want, for example:  You are getting ready to invade a hostile city, and decide to quicksave by hitting the F5 key (most of the times quicksave is located on F5) so if the hostile takeover goes wrong, you just load the game and you are right back before the invasion. And you are now clear to make another choice. Or in First Person Shooters where you quicksave just before going round the corner (or just hitting it because of nerves every 34 seconds).

Well Mount and Blade has this option as well, BUT it also gives you the option to start the game in “realistic” mode. this means no quicksave, no manual save, only saving when clicking exit on the game. This means of course that you can just save and exit every 35 second, but do you really wanna do that? Gets tedious in the long run. And you can’t click exit on the game without it saving your progress.. This forces you to think more, and make the right choices. If youou don’t the game will punish you and you will suffer by the consequences.

This brings me a little bit back to the start of the post. Where is my quicksave button? Why is the human being not installed with Time machine? I have so many thoughts and choices to make the next 3 months that i really really really wish for a quicksave. I would be so great to be able to revert life back to a specific point if the choices i make goes wrong….

“I’m normaly not a praying man, but if you are up there, please save me Superman” – Homer Simpson

Tags: computer, Games, Gaming, ice, King, lea, life, Mac, Manual, Mount and Blade: warband, Play, quicksave, Software, Steam, Sushi, time machine, UMA, Wazzuup

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E3 is running at the moment i USA. And now i will just bib of my Nerd Alert.

********NERD ALERT*******

E3 is the biggest convention for gaming in the world. It’s the fair where developers advertised their newest projects and trailers, demos, gaming hardware and more are revealed to the masses and press for the first time. All the biggest developers has their own fairs where they reveal their newest stuff. Developers like Blizzard and Apple (i know that Apple is not a developer in gaming, but it was to illustrate a point )

Some of the stuff i have seen so far is stuff from Relic like the games Warhammer 40K; Space Marine and Warhammer 40k; Millennium Online. The Space Marine trailer was already aired a year ago, but it’s still a cool trailer if you are fan of the 40K universe. Xbox has had their run at this years E3 as well. They have showed the final release of their Project Natal, that has now officially been renamed Kinect plus a new slimmer edition of the Xbox 360, that also comes bundled with the Kinect.

E3 is far from over,  following it still to see what treats they are dishing out. And to finish this post, I’ll end it with a quote from the new trailer from Portal 2. ”I think we are ready to put our differences beside us. For science…. You monster”

Tags: App, appl, E3, Games, Gaming, Gaming, Hardware, lea, trailers, Wazzuup, Xbox, YouTube

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Or i would if i had a Mac.

Well Steam has finally been released for the Mac computers, so if you don’t have a Mac running an older outdated version of the operating system OS X, you can now install Steam an join the gaming community with ease.

For you who don’t know Steam, let me explain a little bit.  Steam is a program that install to your computer and sign up for an account. Via this account you now buy games straight from the program, that after the purchase downloads straight to the computer, ready for play immediately. The brilliant thing is that, when a game has been purchased you can now install steam on any computer you might have, log into your steam account and install that game, and play any time your please. Your purchases are saved within your account information. Brilliant. It’s never been easier to get new games (or old classics) for your computer.

Well Steam has now been released for Steam and together with the release, Steam has also launched the term “SteamPlay” SteamPlay is a term you should look for when browsing the Steam shop for games. It means; When buying a game you are able to play it on a PC as well as a Mac! Otherwize you need to make sure if the game is Mac compatible or PC.

But i doo think it’s brilliant that i can buy Civilization IV and play on my PC, and after that go on holiday together with Gf and install it on her Mac and play there as well. Just brilliant. Of cause Gf got her own account as well, for the only thing about Steam you should know is, that you can’t log into your account two places at once. So i can’t buy a game and we both be playing it at the same time on a computer each. Bought her the “Indie Game Pack” so she has something to play with other that Sims 3 on her Mac.

Tags: Applications, computer, fireshot, Games, Gaming, Gaming, Gf, lea, Mac, PC, Play, Steam, Tai, Wazzuup

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This Tuesday Funcom released their first expansion to the MMORPG game: Age of Conan.

Conan was original released about two years ago. It had a huge problem with a lot of kiddie decease’s and lack of content alaround the possible lvl’s of the game. Two years has passes and the Age of Conan (AOC) you have today is something really really different. Funcom has not waisted any time fixing the bugs, making the game smooth and adding the missing content. This of cause has made sure that that AOC has a big fan base and are able to maintain servers, content and not go down the drain as so many other MMORPG games we have seen (Vanguard anyone?)

When buying the expansion you actually get the original game included. So this means that if you wanna try the game you can buy the expansion for about 250-275 NOK and not worry about not having the original game.  And you get 30 days of gaming time before the monthly fees kicks in.

Well i bought the expansion and went into the account page to add the expansion serial number. No need to actually install the expansion if you have the original installed. The updater will automatic install the needed content (beware we are talking about a 3.65 GB patch) The release of the new content was this Tuesday, but you where not able to game before today Wednesday. The servers was still being patched and did not go online before sometime after midnight. Well the servers are up again and the patching took about 1 hour for me. Posted here is a little video that explains some of the new content.

On a side note, i can tell you that Age of Conen / Rise of the Godslayer is the most beautiful MMORPG games that has ever been. The graphics are breathtaking and nothing has been able to top it…. yet.

Tags: Age of Conan, Conan, Funcom, Games, Gaming, Gaming, King, lea, MMORPG, Rise of the Godslayer, Tai, Video, Wazzuup, YouTube

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In different games you have different ways of playing beside the normal single-player campaign or whatever the game has to offer. In mmorpg games (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) you have the different servers to play on. All depending if its PvP or PvE you are looking for.

PvP stands for Player vs Player, so the game is pretty much based on competing against other online players. PvE stands for People vs Environment, so here you are ussually teamed together with others to take down some Bitch King or dragon or whatever. When playing mmorpg games PvE are usually the servers i go for (or the RP “Role Playing” servers) Because i find it a lot more fun working together with others accomplishing a goal together. Yes you can still play together on a PvP server but the essence on those servers are still PvP.

I always look for games with an excellent Co-Operation (Co-Op) function. I don’t need an entire team to have fun playing together. Games like Gears of War 1 and 2 pretty much grinds my gears in a good way. I thinks it’s fun to battle the hordes of hell with just a single sidekick. This must be the reason why i also like the Halo games? Sense i played Halo the first time with one of my buddies. Two people in front of a little tv playing on the same xbox with a split screen trying to finish the halo games on the highest possible difficulty.

Many games offers different varieties of Co-Op. Games like Modern Warefare, Bad Company 2 and such. You have your team where you have to work together to accomplish a goal or just killing the other team. Game types like Capture the Flag, King of the Hill. I like game types where you have to accomplish a goal compared to games where you just have to shoot the other team to shit. I like team vs team games, and maybe because of the team effort! I’m one of those players who tries to follow my squad leader, give orders to the others, really try becoming a team. I have no doubt that this is also a success criteria in these kind of games.

I pre-ordered as said before the Red Dead Redemption for PS3, so i hope that the multiplayer part of it will be well worth it. For there is a looooooong time to Gears of War 3 and we have no clue on Diablo 3 yet.

Tags: Diablo, Games, Gaming, Gaming, Gears of War, hope, King, lea, MMORPG, Play, PS3, Red Dead Redemption, Tai, Tv, Wazzuup, work, Xbox

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Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar Games is being released here in Maj. Once again i’m having trouble with deciding on what platform i should get it for. The Xbox or the PS3. Normally i wait a little bit until there are some reviews from the different platforms, to see where the game runs the best. But this time it’s not that much the graphics and controls that bother me, but what friends to aim for. I have different gaming friends on my play lists on both Ps3 and the Xbox (this also made me get Modern Warfare 2 for both consoles) I wanna play with all of my friends, but as long as we don’t all have the same type of platform, it’s a bit hard. This time i have an agreement with one of my friends, that he will sponsor half a game (why is a different story, can only say it involves Ninjas..) And to honor that i at least could get it for the type of console that he has.

Having Modern Warfare 2 for both consoles made me really HATE the friend system that PS3 have compared to Xbox. On the Xbox you can form a party and chat away with the microphones and game at the same time. PS3 you can not. You will have to join the in-game communications because it shuts the com-party down. And in the in-game chat the sound is way to compressed, everybody sounds like a twelve year old, and you have screaming British people from Manchester that you constantly need to mute (i have nothing against British people, i just can’t understand Manchester when being screamed with a high pitch twelve year old voice) it SUCKS! Come on Sony, you can update this crap to be better.

Well… Despite the friends/communication babel i have now pre-ordered the game for PS3. At least i know i have 2 friends here who are getting it for the same platform, so next thing to do is to go out in the real world and make even more friends for my playlist, so we can have the ultimate Red Dead Redemption Possy.

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Gears of War is the the game responsible for me having an Xbox 360. My brother and i are always looking for good games where you are able to join forces and fight together against a common enemy. Gears of War came out to the Xbox and PC. We played it a lot, and finished the game together. Gears of War offers a fun and perfect way to share a gaming experience.

When Gears of War 2 came out, i got so pissed and disappointed. Not of the game (the game rocks and i still play it) But because that i did not get published for the PC. Only for the Xbox 360.  Lucky for me, that my work at that time actually got me an Xbox and the game for Christmas (Thanks again, love it) Mostly to shut me up, sense i had been bitching about the game not coming out for PC.

Last week IGN Entertainment published the first trailer from Gears of War 3. A game i am looking forward for. It’s not set to come our before April 2011, so we have a looooong wait ahead of us. The Trailers features female soldiers now, something we have not seen at the front line of Gears yet (Gears are what the front line trooper is called, and their name tags are cogs…) Hopefully the women of the game are not 2 meters wide and steroid pumped as their male counterparts Well here is the trailer attached to the post, and try to tell me you are not looking forward for the continuation of the series?

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