Posts Tagged ‘harper’

“I am bored, therefore I must eat, masturbate and play Audiosurf” #2

January 27th, 2010

Recently there’s been a boom of modern pc games adopting what they call ‘matching systems’ for online play. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been around on consoles for years, but as a pc gamer I like to think I rise above the level of intelligence needed to choose a good server, say that of a small woodland animal. The system has arrived mainly due to an influx of gays not knowing how to navigate a 2-button server browser, but that’s beside the point. Both Dawn of War 2 and Modern Warfare 2 amongst many others have adopted this system, and I’ve got nothing against it, apart from, hey, IT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK.

No good host...

I was so looking forward to Modern Warfare 2, and once they announced that they were implementing “no dedicated server support” a few weeks before release, my heart sank. So much so that I decided to sellotape my cat to a rocket and launch it through Activision’s head office window.

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“I am bored, therefore I must eat, masturbate and play Audiosurf” #1

December 23rd, 2009
Soldier VS Demoman

WAAAAAAR! Players vs Valve?

Ok, I thought about writing a short book about some of my more comic rants about certain aspects of recent gaming, but since I am far too lazy to write a book, I’ll release it in small doses so you can absorb the brilliance of each one.

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[PC] Zeno Clash

August 15th, 2009
zeno_clash

Take note of the super deadly pig enemy on the right.

After watching a lot of highlights of the Independent Games Festival ’09, Zeno Clash was one of the games that really stood out for me in its originality and general weirdness. This bizarre first person brawler game comes from the ACE Team – an up and coming indie games developer from Chile.

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