Squaresphere

No internet! Boo..

Still it should be active sometime early next week which is nice. My Gundam is still on order which is mighty suck, let’s hope it ships soon.

I caved into temptation yesterday and bought myself a Master Grade Gundam model. I plumped for the Strike Freedom Gundam Full Burst Mode model at 1/100 scale, so it stands about 59cm tall!

It’s on backorder at the supplier so might take a few weeks to arrive, but it’s something to look forward to. Makes me think of all my time spent with lego as a kid. Although I did kind of underestimate the complexity of the build, there are literally thousand of parts involved. Sure does look interesting though. I found a review with a whole bunch of pictures of all the parts, check it out.

I recently subscribed to Last.fm as a paid user and now have my own personal radio station! You can either check the music page or tune in directly below.

Man this gig rocked. The band was ace and produced a superb sound, dogged by a few technical issues but was still a fantastic show.

The venue was The Brook, a live music venue in Southampton. Small but cosy with some good acoustics too. http://www.the-brook.com/dates2007/11.2007.shtml#aim

Visit the website, http://www.aticrecords.com/

Yes it’s true. Hellgate London has been released! After a very weak demo was released the retail is superb in comparison. It’s quite shocking that they would release such a lame demo when the game is really actually very good indeed. Anyone who is a fan of Dungeon Siege, Diablo2 or Titan Quest or just an Action RPG fan generally will enjoy this fantastic title from Flagship Studios. Bit of a shame that the EA corporate whores had to pimp it out as a subscription MMO style game though.

Check it out, http://www.hellgatelondon.com/

..to me! Yes it’s that time of year again. So Happy Birthday to me and Happy Halloween to you!

Yes, finally, the dry spell on the PC games front has ended. Plenty of new titles out at the moment. Stranglehold, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, World in Conflict and Crysis Multiplayer Beta.

So lots of things to keep busy with. I have added a link to my ET:QW stats on the left hand menu, seems I hadn’t been playing on ranked servers or the stats weren’t working or something. At least that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it!

Back to work already! Man LAN passes by far far too quickly these days. The WCG were visiting the I-series, so it was all about the tournaments this event, plus the comedy security fence. I spent most of the lan playing either the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta2 and having recently bought Titan Quest and Immortal Throne from Steam, I played through the entire of Act 2 and 3, most excellent fun, although killing Typhon was pretty difficult, on to Act 4! It sure went a ways to powering up my SteamID and pushing my rating close to 10

Available for pre-order!

This game will totally pwn. Really looking forward to seeing what SquareEnix have done with the franchise and it should prove popular with a return to many fans favourite instalment of the series, Final Fantasy 7.

Since City of * starting having some lag issues with their packet carriers in Europe somewhere, I went back to playing some OpenTTD. This game has such massive replay value it’s hard not to just install it when bored. I have started using the replacement GRF files too in order to change the game and give it another new lease of life. You can find a list of GRF files on the OpenTTD wiki, over here, http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/GRF_List

The other decent title out at the moment, similar in play style to Fable by Lionhead Studios, is Overlord. This is a superb game where you play an evil Overlord with a horde of minions with which you wreak havoc among the populace. Fire, brimstone, even your own evil tower! Great game.