Herd of Cats

Zero Punctuation reviews Medal of Honor Airborne.
I love his review style: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation...

Admittedly it is the Herd of cats way, but lack of communication is getting in the way of our serious gaming.

Two night ago MoriceRevek sent me an instant message thought MSN when he saw me online. "Did I want to play MUA online?" Well I did but while his IM was sent at 9:39 I did not notice it until 10:30. This was aggravated by Coxxorz's email message at 10:00 also asking if I wanted to play online. I did not check my email until 10:30. Read more

So, no article about it until tomorrow morning.

Now I know why.

Blackwalt is a good friend, but sometimes you have to take the bad with the good. Take for instance his propensity for finding obscure, really bad science fiction and fantasy series and buying me the second in the series, knowing full well that I will feel obliged to read it. He also knows I will be unable to find the other books in the series, even if I wanted them. As I have mentioned in my blog in the past, this has happened more than once. Read more

My working title for this article was “we are all whackjobs” but do not take that personally as that is my working title for all my articles.

Herd of Cats is in the middle of a gaming oddity. Seriously, more than usual. Read more

Yes I am stuck in Toronto for the week. Really, what could be worse? Yes, I don't have my XBox.

So, what to do. Hmm, well I could watch the Leafs ... of course that's kind of like sticking a knife in my eye and twisting it around. Hey! that sounds like fun! Better than watching the Leafs.

I brought Thraxas with me, but I've already read it three times. Got a couple of movies ...

Sheesh, I'm bored already and I haven't even checked into the hotel!!

Eventually I will stop writing about Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

Eventually. Until then, some observations about playing through Xbox Live.

• Four player support is iffy with lag fairly often, two player and three player is mostly fine.
• If a player quits mid game, it doesn't end the game for everyone (as happens in Halo 3 coop)
  

This news will send him more out of control than normal.

SEGA teams with Marvel to bring Iron Man to Next-Generation gaming systems.

Yes, Iron Man.

TeamXbox even has screenshots.

Friday Night Flighting

Okay, enough of this dynamic duo stuff. Let's try for four players online this evening.

It's Friday night, what else would we be doing?

My playing time has been pre-cleared so I am good to go starting sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 hoping to go until midnight. Read more

I have two magazines that I read regularly. I subscribe to both.

OXM: the Official Xbox Magazine and PCGamer.

Just a quick comment about the impact of Halo 3 on magazine production. Read more

Don't really care much about this game, but they have a really cool contest going on right now. Everything from USB keys to computers to the game itself can be won instantly, and yes, even Xbox 360 Elite consoles.

You get to move your guy around the city using a massive grid system. Landing on a spot where another player resides cause you to assassinate him, and earns you points for improving your ranking. Conversely, you can be landed on and lose said points. Prizes are hiding in random spots around town.

I haven't won any prizes yet myself, but I have a good feeling about this one...
Sign up for the Creed Challenge!

This Emergency Zombie Defense Station seems so logical that it took me a while to realize it wasn't real.

In fact, I gather that this is meant to be humorous. Read more

In the spirit of this article, here are two more:

• The Barrel that Changed the World


• and The Greatest Halo 3 Grenade Toss

Making natural hazards look good

So Stormblade(Colossus) and I (Spiderman) entered into Atlantis last night to save Namor, accompanied by AI Invisible Woman and Captain America.

It did not go well. Read more