Rui CarmoIt’s summertime, and leisure is a relevant topic all of a sudden. I’m more partial to reading and listening to music these days, but my gaming past manages to catch up with me sometimes.
- The Razer Viper (review) is on sale at FNAC, which I found curious. I always fancied getting myself a Boomslang or its spawn, but these days I don’t play enough to warrant spending that much cash on a simple mouse.
- I’m seriously considering getting rid of my Xbox. That is, as soon as I finish Oddworld: Munch’s Oddyssee, since Halo made it plain that I can’t play FPS games in consoles - the controller is simply crap when compared to a mouse and keyboard. Not that I’ve used it any more than I have my PlayStation 2 (i.e., once this year), but the PlayStation 2 has that Sony mystique - I mean, have you ever thrown away a piece of Sony gear, no matter how cheap?
- Reading about the Quakecon talks, it looks like Doom 3 will be out for the Xbox before the Mac version is up to scratch. Yes, current Mac video hardware needs some updating (which the new iMac will do, surely). No, I won’t go out and buy a G5 to play it, but then I don’t really think I’ll be buying an Xbox version of the game.
- The other day, being swept up in the Doom hype, I unpacked my custom Quake III Arena install into my Toshiba M100, cranked up the video settings as far as it would go (not much, my iBook manages better) and proceeded to get the shit kicked out of me by a bot. A bot, mind you. I started feeling obsolete when the score was something like 6-2. Then I got hold of the railgun and magic happened again (cunning and old age are better than raw reflexes, but a bit of all three makes for some fancy shooting).
- If you can’t get a decent video card for your work PC, here’s the lamest excuse so far.
- This amazing scam made me look into EVE Online. MMORPGs these days are like nothing I remember (the graphics sure beat classic descriptions like
you were eaten by a grue.) - I used to be quite keen on war games, but can’t remember what happened to the Mac (make that Cocoa) port of T.E.G.. Was I only dreaming, or is there really such a beast?
- Melo reminded me of the demos page. Hours of fun included.
Update: While idly clicking through Amazon UK, I came across the Quake IV pre-order and this absolutely hilarious promotion:
(Yes, it’s a gaming in-joke: DN4Ever has been “nearly done” for half a decade now… So it and Q4 sharing a launch date and being bundled as a promotion is friggin’ hillarious…)