Category Archives: gaming


“People don’t play games online.”

Looks like I am not the only one that heard this line from AOL management.

Today’s Playstation 3 Amazon Gold Box & Lightning deals

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is the Gold Box offer.
0900 EDT: Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII for the PS3
13:00 EDT: Playstation 3 Logitech Driving Force GT Racing Wheel for $89.99
15:00 EDT: Save the galaxy and figure out why Cragmites hate Lombaxes. Sounds like Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
17:00 EDT: El Dorado beckons. [...]

Rock Band 2: More PR

Another press release, this with more info on the game accessories. More after the break.

Using OmniFocus to track your D&D character

Talk about your über-geeky: Joel at OmniGroup has posted his method of tracking characters in OmniFocus. Fourth edition D&D is a sea change in the way powers, abilities, and just about everything else, and his method is interesting. Again, über-geeky but so crunchy.

Civ IV: Colonization

1994: 3.5″ floppies and the original Colonization. I missed it, but earlier this week Firaxis announced Civilization IV: Colonization to be available this fall.

Rock Band database

As mentioned in my previous post, I am working on a database and Web GUI for tracking Rock Band scores. Yes, this seems like an undertaking for a game, but the wife has asked for something easier than an Excel spreadsheet. It’s also a challenge for me to shake off some rust (though I am [...]

Rock Band DLC

For tracking and ease of coordinating online play, I have posted a page with all of our songs, including DLC. Eventually I will create a database to track progress and average score but this will do for now.
Edit: Dumped the songs into a database and trying to remember PHP and MySQL syntax. Moved the page [...]

Got Sins?

I bought Sins of a Solar Empire on Vetril’s recommendation, and boy was it a mistake. Between Call of Duty 4, Rock Band, Burnout Paradise, playing WoW again, bouts of Team Fortress 2, and games of Civ4: Beyond the Sword, I don’t have time for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, World in Conflict, or Company of [...]

Civ 4: Beyond the Sword under VMWare

I have my Boot Camp partition set up as a VM under VMware Fusion for those times I am out of town and want to get my gaming fix. Since Sid Meiers Civilization IV Beyond the Sword is not yet out for Mac, that gets played under Windows. Team Fortress 2 is another one that [...]

Rock Band DLC for January ‘08

Week of 10 Jan:
Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots
Die, All right! by The Hives’
Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Week of 17 Jan:
Action made famous by Sweet (cover)
Last Train to Clarksville made famous by the Monkees (cover)
All the Small Things by Blink 182
Week of 24 Jan: Oasis Pack
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Live Forever
Wonderwall

Week of [...]