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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Vinny takes Charge

Have a Happy, Peaceful, Merry and Bright Festive Season.  We're on vacation (from gaming), I've left Vinny to chat with you.

Monday, December 14, 2015

The Six Stages of the Sims

My son gave me this game and I played it for 10 years or more.  I never got tired of building houses and designed a garden in the game which we eventually landscaped where we live now.  

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Dragon Age Inquisition - the DLC's

Trespasser.  That's all I'm saying.  

A messy scribble ...

Daylight saving and I don't get along.  Sorry about the smudges and corrections.  Read this, it's bonkers.  http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Vinny's DPS is Improving!

Hopefully Vinny will beat the game soon.  We have frequent strategy debates.  

Friday, November 13, 2015

Halloween Catch Up

Costume Quest 2 is a great little game and an improvement of the first game in every way.
We did not have Halloween growing up in South Africa.
 Thanks Double Fine,  I can be a kid again and wear Halloween costumes after all!

Thursday, November 12, 2015

A Game of Epic Proportions

Mad Max is keeping me very busy.  I've got the driving down now!  Anyhow, a respectful thanks to the dev's.  Post movie games can fail, but this game is great.
Chumbucket's dialogue is worth playing the game for. 

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Zen of Pinball Part I

Cat's like birthdays too.  (I apologise if your feeds don't work - I changed to https - please re-subscribe :)

Monday, October 19, 2015

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Video Games and Camping - Games are easier!

We had an amazing time.  Of course I fired up D&D Neverwinter as soon as I got back... (they were no-see-ums and not mosquitoes!  Aargh)

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Game Paused - gone camping

Fear not, Vinny has neighbours visiting twice a day.
I plan on going cold turkey this coming week, and not going back to D&D Neverwinter on the XBox One.
I need to beat Lords of the Fallen, I'm so close to the end.  I'm not sure what I'll play after that.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Video Game Podcasts

Special Mentions:  Beyond, The Psychology of Video Games, Ladies of Leet and Game On Girl Podcast.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Play nice.

Skyrim would have been a fab co-op game.  Also, for the love of Batwoman, please don't steal the last shot/stab at an enemy when someone just worked hard to wear them down to the last sliver of health.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Gamer girl friend, Pickles the cat.

Before she died, she brought a scruffy boyfriend to meet us, and Vinny moved in.  I have a Rock Band group with all the cats I love as band members.  



Pickles and Plants vs Zombies!

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Me and Mass Effect

I truly love this game.  It's still my favourite of the Trilogy, even though I made it so hard for myself.  Always check the options menu!

Mass-ive Effects

I always let the credits roll.  You see little personal dedications, babies born during development, dogs and cats on "set", tributes and heartfelt acknowledgments.  And sometimes, little extra nuggets of cut scenes or a secret achievement.  And on rare occasions, the REAL end of the game.  

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Be happy. Be Katamari.

Self explanatory.

How to fight like a boss

Looking back this makes me nostalgic for how gaming first felt and thankful for the friends and magic it has brought into my life.  To all gamers out there, I salute you!

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Learning how to Game: Try Fable II

I will never forget what Fable II taught me, and will always be grateful to Lionhead Studios.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Day 1: Skyrim, Dark Souls and "Character Creation: The Game".



Edit:  I'm now 200+ hours into this game.  I REALLY need to move on. 
Ryan started Dark Souls with a broken sword and beat the Asylum Demon boss with it.  He had a problem where his character could not move so without the update patches he made his life so much harder.  Less souls, all sorts of bugs and general mayhem.  DS is hard enough, Ryan.  He killed the Tower Dark Knight just past the bridge in Undead Burg and died at the same time ... and forever after (in this play through anyhow) heard and "saw" it's ghost.  No one plays DS like Ryan.  Everyone has an epic Dark Souls story.  Ryan's are the best.

Sean C plays many many games and is also an excellent gamer.  I'm not sure how many games he has finished though, because what he loves most of all is to create characters.
Multiple characters.  Often.  So I dreamed up this game for him.

Tim is our IT wizard at work.  When I call him with a problem, the PC heals itself before he arrives.  It's positively humiliating.  Infuriating.  Humbling.  You will never meet a nicer IT guy (apart from our son).