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You should at least try. Simon the Sorcerer was weird, the most I played of that was a demo of the first one on Amiga. I did later get those on PC and play through them. Simon was slooooooooooooooooow walking.

Well... they got money from me twice. Once on PC through their own website and once on Wiiware.

I watched on wednesday Starship Troopers. Awful acting and awful CGI. But one thing I love about Paul Verhoeven is his take on the world and the future of mankind. All those commercials that are in this first Starship Troopers and also in Robocop are quite something. Like in Starship Trooper there is one commercial where laughing and smiling soldiers give their guns to small kids and then these kids fight for the guns and the commercial ends with the soldiers giving ammunition to the kids and they are going crazy for it. Yesterday we watched Godfather, I'm shamed to admit that I had never seen it before. I should've watched this 15 years ago already, but I'm truly happy that I saw it now. Immediately goes to my top 10 of movies. I loved everything about it, the directing, the cinematography, the acting, the music. Everything done with such fine talent. Next we are going to watch the two sequels of Godfather as I have the dvd box set on loan from my father.

I've been following this project for quite some time and have been thinking about buying it in Steam. I think I read that the PC release has been postponed so also this one goes to the consoles first. I hope the same thing doesn't happen with Shank as with DeathSpank that the PC release never comes.

Really sorry to hear that Murdoc, hopefully you will get things solved and at least get something out of that insurance. I've been a bit depressed today, I read in the morning that Satoshi Kon had died on Monday. He was one of my most favourite anime directors and the guy was not even 50 years old... so much talent lost far too early. He had pancreatic cancer. He visited Finland in 2008 autumn to talk about his life and his movies. As I'm a completely useless sack of crap, I didn't attend that talk as it was in Helsinki and I live on the other side of the country. I don't think I actually had anything important to do at that point. Now I'm so pissed that I didn't go there then...

It's propably no wonder if the game is closer in single player to C&C, Dustin Browder was working on Red Alert 2 and Generals.

So no PC version of the main game or this speedy sequel, no Ron anymore at Hothead and basically this sounds like it's Deathspank 1.5 consisting of the stuff they cut from the first release. Maybe in this one you can actually see the weapons on Deathspank's back, I read that in Ron's blog that it was apparently removed after he left Hothead. I wonder what else they removed after he left? I'm pretty sure at this point that there will be no PC release. Even the guy says that they are not focusing on PC, the main platforms are Xbox and Playstation. That I find very disappointing as for the past few years I've been hoping quite a lot to play Ron Gilbert's new game on Steam. The game was originally supposed to be episodic so this kind of goes in that plan. They propably have some original Hothead ideas there, like apparently adding guns to a hack'n slash game. The basic plot setting for the sequel "episode" seems to be a cheap LotR joke. The article says:"Players won't bring their progress from the first game. Deathspank sequel players start leveling their hero up from scratch."

Weird movie weekend, I watched In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Red Sonja and Red Eye. Dungeon Siege wasn't as horrible as I would've thought, but it was a boring and pointless LotR copy as a movie can be. I don't get Uwe Boll movies, he has some black magic skills on how he gets guys like Ron Perlman and John Rhys-Davies to appear in his films. Or possibly the actors are just broke and in need of a quick fix of cash. Red Sonja is the hopefully forgotten Schwarzenegger movie from the 80's where he has a side role, but is the main advertised star of the Conan lite version movie. Brigitte Nielsen stars as the main role as Sonja. The movie was clearly meant to cash in while Conan was still remembered by people, this movie even had the same star in "a different role". The movie had some amazing painted scenery backgrounds that looked great! I wonder who did the art for Red Sonja? Red Eye came from the tv yesterday and it was directed by Wes Craven. I was not going to watch it, but my wife wanted to see it so we watched it. Starred Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams. Thriller movie, I didn't know anything about the movie beforehand except that it was directed by Craven, so I was thinking this would be a horror movie in an airplane. Turned out to be quite different, pretty ok movie. Cillian Murphy was the single great thing about this movie. He's a class act that always shines in his roles, like the role in Inception and the Batman movies.

I remember this game, it was one of those games that seemed to me to be replicating the Day of the Tentacle feeling, but the voice acting and story sucked as those were very bad. I didn't know that the Italian guy made a sequel to Tony Tough called Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress. I have not played the Kyrandia games in ages, the second one always seemed the best to me. I did get through all of them, but I played them: 2, then 3 and last the first one. So not exactly in the chronological order.

The first game that I have pre-ordered in a long time. Absolutely fantastic intro. It's got the Wizard, excellent scene with Mickey sleeping and time passing as the viewer can see the ages of Mickey Mouse fastforwarded. Looks like the end of the year is going to be pretty sweet. I'm off to read the Gamasutra interview with Spector that was posted about a month ago.

Just read Remo's month old interview with Ron Gilbert from Gamasutra. Now I really want to play this, but then I noticed that there are still no news about the PC release...

Might be very possible that I'm mistaken. This will be a browser based MMO? If it's done as quality work as Quake Live then but if it's done like many other browser based games...

But is this even a game? I have always thought that this is just some Molyneux's crazy virtual fantasy allowing him to "play" with a young boy.

Not really interested in an online remake of Jagged Alliance 2. It it like that, right? At least I got that kind of image of the game when I read some news. If the original developers would make a proper Jagged Alliance 3 with a great single player campaign like the first two games, then I would start to be interested.

The project has been renamed as From Dust.

We were going to watch yesterday something completely different, but in the end chose Labyrinth from 1986. Lucasfilm made the first adventure style game from this movie. Movie was directed by Jim Henson and produced by Georgie Lucas. It's a fantasy movie that many know and my wife said it felt a lot like meant for children mainly. I think people propably have had and still have nightmares because of Bowie's pants in this movie. His hair reminded me about Elvira, that's some true late 80's crazy hair style. The whole idea about a labyrinth world was very unique, but I think the age of the movie is showing a little bit in various parts. This was the first time that me or my wife saw this movie. Bowie's singing parts were a bit weird, but he is the driving force of this movie, more a central character than even Jennifer Connelly's character.

I *think* I have reached final round of choosing a new case. I was going for the around 100 euro range so cases like Silverstone Fortress are out of my selection. First up is Lian Li PC-7F for 120 euros. Midtower case. Second is Thermaltake V9 Black edition for 100 euros. Also a Midtower case. Third is Thermaltake Shark for 100 euros. This one seems to be a full tower case. I'm trying to find some case reviews concerning these so I could know the plus and minus sides of these cases. Any ideas?

Hey man, I hope you enjoy your time there. That country is amazing, be sure to travel around and not just in Tokyo. The countryside awesome! You need someone who can speak Japanese as the locals don't speak English that much (at all actually). So it's good that your uncle is there, he can help you.

Yeah, I know the boxed anniversary edition, I wanted it really a lot in 2006, but I'm trying to save shelf space these days. Lets see, if I don't find the email, then one chance is GoG or the boxed version. GoG is quite possible in one way as I now have an account there. (I already bought Blood 2: The Chosen.) I should propably also try to email Eric or who ever is maintaining anotherworld.fr about the four year old purchase. Maybe they can send me a new email.

These days I just upgrade parts on my current machine. I don't think I'll buy a complete set of parts to assemble anymore. So maybe I do still invest a lot of money on the computer, but at least it doesn't feel that much when it's just 100-200 euros per piece. Also the prices in general are way lower now than they were eight years ago. For example I paid for 2x256 DDR memory almost 300 euros back then. I do remember that my first new PC cost 2000 euros back in the day, that was the one I got as a gift and didn't invest myself anything in it, except for a 3dFX card.

I've got to add that I found yesterday an old invoice receipt for the computer I bought after army in 2002. I was shocked to discover that it cost over 1800 euros. What the hell was I thinking? Well computers cost a lot at that time, but still...

I tried out the demo yesterday. It worked perfectly! I haven't played GTA4 at all, but I really liked the driving in this game and I was using keyboard&mouse combination. Propably the coolest thing for me was driving to the mission on the island when I first drove the car to the bridge, the view was amazing! My jaw dropped right there. Now I'm scared to ever try the first one again, I was originally planning to dig it up from my closet and play it through before the sequel comes out. Great job from the developers, the game is shaping up to be quite nice! The control layout was a bit strange, I think they've got quite a lot of buttons mapped out. Different button for breaking the window, different button for exiting and entering cars etc. The car physics were a bit weird, I crashed with a really small car to a big truck and the truck went flying while my car just stayed there and moved a little bit backwards. The cars don't get apparently totally destroyed in crashes, just the window breaks, some metal gets crushed and the bumper starts to get loose, but doesn't drop completely?

It was that kind of cloud exactly. It was advancing so damn fast that I couldn't almost believe it. It struck all over Finland on that sunday. It seriously looked like doomsday is coming. Yes, it was the Sonisphere festival in Pori.

A week ago on sunday me and my wife got almost seriously injured/killed when we went to a metal festival in southern Finland. We were standing next to some booths were the people sold shirts and food and stuff. It was interesting that the sky was clear and it was 32 degrees, then I saw a huge pitch black cloud the shape of a tornado coming towards the area, it was followed by an enormous grey cloud formation and I knew this was not going to lead to anything good. Huge lightnings were soon visible everywhere and the whole place was flashing all the time, the rain started quickly and in about 5 seconds time it went from little to hard rain and suddenly it felt like someone was throwing rocks at us. This of course wasn't the end of this, soon came a small tornado like wind that almost threw people around, and it threw in the air bunch of booths. One of those booths with it's metal frames almost landed on top of us. Also one of the main stages was starting to go apart and some metal junk fell on people waiting for Iggy Pop. Two people got seriously injured, one of them died a few days later in the hospital. Around 40 people got injured in total. That was one interesting day, Mötley Crüe cancelled as their gear got destroyed, Iggy Pop played only four songs acousticallya s his gear got destroyed and it took hours for things to clear up. In the end Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden came and said that "we are not fucking going home before you do". They had also lost all their gear, but somehow they built up something and loaned stuff from elsewhere and played for two hours until midnight. The whole place was really foggy and dark at the end and the athmosphere was quite unique, insane and awesome for sure. Bruce said that the whole band will go to the hospitals to check on those who got injured. Superb class act and I'm really sorry for that one guy who in the end lost his life just because he wanted to see and hear some music. Human is a puny little creature when nature shows it's power.

Holy crap that Sonic CD game over theme is freaky. Completely different from the rest.