Orange Box Review
November 7, 2007 by epoch
I’m not a huge fan of FPS on consoles mainly because controllers don’t quite lend themselves to the precision that a mouse does. Maybe it’s just me. At any rate, I caved and bought the Valve Orange Box (VOB) for the PC. One thing that helped to entice me is that Valve actually did something magnanimous. I already owned Half Life 2 and Episode 1, both of which which come with the VOB package. Originally that meant wasted money but this time around they’re letting me gift those two games to someone. That’s right, I can give them to anyone. So I got 3 games I wanted and two I can give away for a total of $50. Not bad. So how do the games stack up? Read the rest of this entry »
Gaming Glut
October 18, 2007 by Galyn
Life as a gamer can get pretty overwhelming. Lately it seems as if there’s been a glut of games to play. And while this is not exactly a bad thing, it makes it hard to keep up, or even finish a game. Especially for me, as I tend to have the attention span of a gnat.