SpecOps: The Line

I picked this game up on Steam a few months ago on the super-cheap - probably in the $5 range.  I just completed it today after 8 hours of total play time.  I got the feeling there was going to be a twist in the story as I played, but I never put my finger on what it would be.  Suffice it to say, my dude was crazy.  Good game, fun stuff.  I don't usually get into these types of games but they actually did a decent job with this one.  Well worth $5.  That's one more game down towards my goal of actually beating and deleting some of the games from my massive Steam library.

Defiance Beta

Syfy has teamed up with Trion (creators of Rift) to make a mmofps game tie-in with a new TV series:

http://www.defiance.com/en/

This is my second weekend of participating in the beta (if you count logging in and immediately getting disconnected as "participating".)  They still haven't unblocked screenshots though so I can't show any in-game action.

This weekend is far more polished and stable than last time and I was able to run around a bit and shoot things.  I was surprised that the game actually registers headshots.  I also got myself an ATV early on that I can somehow technomagically materialize at my whim.  The available skills are nifty - So far I went with invisibility and extra damage when attacking from behind.

Defiance is a buy-to-play game, so no monthly subscriptions.  I did see a vendor selling lock boxes of a sort and I do wonder if these will require keys (purchased with real money) to open, similar to other f2p games.

FIRST!

I play games.  A lot of them.  Since the Commodore 64 it has been my favorite (only?) "hobby".  I feel like I need to share my experiences even though I'm pretty sure no one will ever read them.  But hey, blogs are free and this is easier than carrying on three or four identical IM conversations starting with "have you seen this game yet?!"

I don't really want this to be a place where I review games.  Other sites already do that better than I care to even try.  But I'll blurb from time to time about what fun new things I've been dabbling in.

I'll probably post things I'm working on when I have something worth showing too.  Things are brewing around here.  SDK's are getting installed.  3D modeling is happening.  Nothing has really coagulated yet, but something is coming...