Tomblog » Games http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com Rantings of an Insomniac Mind Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:59:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 April’s Fool? http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/2008/04/01/aprils-fool/ http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/2008/04/01/aprils-fool/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:26:02 +0000 Tombo http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/?p=74 No no, no april’s fool joke. I am actually updating my blog. ;-)

I’ve been extremly busy last couple of weeks, as some of you may already know. But with the release of the new WordPress past weekend, I found myself upgrading the blog and obliged to baptize the new system with a couple of posts. ;-) You’ll see the other one published later tonight.

Talking about the new WordPress, I recommend everyone to check it out. The developers made some great advancements in the admin panel. So I’m quite pleased to run the new version. It’s a real breath of fresh air.
Also, fitting right into my current spirit of time of change, I’ve upgraded my 5 year old Windows XP rigg to a new Vista-based quad core system. And I have to say… blazing fast! Even Crysis runs like a charm on very high settings. For those of you who have never played Crysis: check out the demo! It’s awesome, I’ll surely be picking up a copy pretty soon. When downloading the demo, don’t let the massive 1.8 GB download scare you of! It’s worth it. Man, where’s the time when games fit on a small floppy disk… good stuff! My last 2 systems didn’t even have such a drive anymore.

Anyway… Have a nice read!

PS: I have started to fix some of the layout bugs on IE7. IE 8 still gives problems though.

]]> http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/2008/04/01/aprils-fool/feed/ 0 Small lack of updates? http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/2007/10/25/small-lack-of-updates/ http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/2007/10/25/small-lack-of-updates/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:20:23 +0000 Tombo http://tomblog.insomniacminds.com/2007/10/25/small-lack-of-updates/ For those of you tracking my blog. You’ll probably have notice the small lack of updates. Well, I can firmly put the blame on this orange thingie. The Orange Box of Half-Life 2 got released last week (retail, that is; the steam edition is about 2 weeks old now). I was looking forward to the next installment of Dr. Freeman. And I must say this second episode is very much worth the wait. It’s a very exciting single-player adventure, and you really sense Valve has taken full advantage of all possible gameplay elements and graphic novelties within its Source engine. Also, the new “achievements” mode within the game give episode two more replay value, which is nice to have. And though episode one was quite short, this new episode ensures a much longer game time.

This is not the only game in the Orange Box. No, there are two other great games in the box. First game is the VERY long awaited Team Fortress 2, so Fortress players… rejoice.. :-) And there is Portal, the game based on Narbacular Drop. It was already refreshing to play such a new style in its early days. But with the Source engine upgrade, it really got a boost.

If your an avid FPS player, go get this box. It really has a great value for money. And as I just beat episode two yesterday, I’m already looking forward to episode 3!

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