Surly Wombat

As i write this I’m playing Warcraft, and no M not World of Warcraft. I’m playing Warcraft 2 in a little dosbox, running DOSBox.

I’d heard about DOSBox of course, but I didn’t realise how good it is. It was really straight forward to set up - easier in fact than dos was back in the day. Get this - war2 found my sound card first try!!. I’ve got buckets of games and it’s nice to be able to dust them off.. now I just need to find my Syndicate Wars CD.

Fancy Pants 2 is a hugely addictive web based platformer, enough talk go play!

Here we are in April, I seem to have fallen off the blogging log as it were but hopefully will get back to it. March seemed to be pretty full of aches and illness on my part. My bad back made a unwelcome return just after I managed to lose the cold I had aquired and those two things seemed to knock me for six.

On the gaming side Elder Scrolls 4 is excellent, even if I have to play it at 800×600. It is likely to be keeping me quiet for some time.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and hello Mum!

EA have put out a press release stating that they are publishing a new game from Crytek the makers of the popular FPS Farcry.

Electronic Arts and award-winning developer Crytek, announced today they will bring Crysis, an exciting new first person shooter, to gamers worldwide. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far Cry™, Crysis

I was poking around, looking for information on Petroden and what happened to others from Westwood Studios after it got canned by EA. This obviously led me on a search for Brett Sperry, the guy who was most important behind C&C. While looking I came across this old interview. I find it interesting as he talks about the fact that at one time he wanted to make Red Alert feature Nazi’s and be set during WW2. Apparently when he pitched it the idea was canned by the publishers. Now it seems every second game is a WW2 one. Time moves fast in the gaming industry. The whole interview is here.

The hunt for Sperry continues.

Even though I haven’t been to E3, and I haven’t seen any of the games, nor have any knowledge what so ever, that is no reason why I can’t do my own E3 awards, I mean every other site does! My catergories are however a little different.

Best Star Wars fanboi’s wet dream of a game @ E3 Star Wars Empire at War

Weirdest game @ E3 Odama. RTS + Pinball.

Best FPS with a scary dark haired girl who leaves bloody footprints @ E3 F.E.A.R.

Most intruiging game by the makers of UT @ E3 Darksector

Most promising multiplayer @ E3 Enemy Territory : QUAKE wars

Best return to E3 @ E3 award The Movies

Best game I been waiting for, forever, and still isn’t out and wasn’t even @ E3 (again) award Duke Nukem 4ever!

I’m a fan of Grand Theft Auto, like most people. This is old news, but really I’m posting this here so I can find the link easily again for myself should I need it :D. Rockstar have got GTA and GTA2 available for free legal download from their website at Rockstar Classics. This is a goodthing®.

More like a piece of art than a game Gridgame is quite mesmerising.

Atari has announced Enemy in Sight, a new game from Illusion Softworks, the makers of Hidden and Dangerous 1 and 2 and the amazing Mafia. Looks kinda OpFlashish. Read the little known at GameSpot