I dipped my foot in a lot of games over the July 4th break. I was still on my random kick but also played some for rewards points, some gladly so. I have to admit, I have been using streaming in order to get Game Pass rewards points on games I mostly don't want to play. I only had to start them for the points anyway. Anyhow, here are the barrel-full of games I played.
I got totally fed up with Minecraft the other day. Mark and I had just turned the game from Peaceful difficulty (no mobs) to Easy (mobs with moderate damage) in order to hunt Endermen. In less than a couple of minutes my outdoor camping deck with trees for walls was surprise attacked by two creepers, one after the other, in broad daylight, destroying part of my deck and a chest full of stuff. I got so fed up, it led me to erase everything on my hard drive and start anew with random selections from my owned games, Game Pass, EA Play and Games with Gold. All of these groupings have a little button that says, "surprise me". I grabbed one from each section in turn and the resulting chaos is recorded below.
In an attempt to get my postings back on track it is Monday and I am here typing away while eating breakfast and watching Dream Cruises on AWE. The episode that I have on is about a cruise ship that is smaller than the typical ships because it also sails, so they can either travel with nature with a good old fashion diesel engine. Kind of interesting and it roams around part of the Caribbean. Anyways you're not here for that, you're here for whatever random games I decided to play this week.
Well hello Pixlpeeps, long time no talk. I have a good reason why I've been away for a week, the past week I was in Hawaii. I spent a week with the family, and playing tourist. Of course the trip over was full of drama, because it wouldn't be a trip to the islands without drama, but more on that during Quick Hits. For my blog entry today I'll talk about the games I played when I had some down time. Because of my trip to the Caribbean I decided to leave the 3DS XL, and also the Vita at home. It kind of defeats the purpose of buying a handheld to not bring it on a trip but I knew I wasn't going to play with either of them. I had my two tablets that have a ton of games, as well as books, TV/Movies, and other items to keep me busy while on my flights. After this past trip I think I'm going with just bringing my iPad alone instead of having both the iPad and the Android Tablet. Nothing against the Android tablet especially since it plays NES games, but other than that I really didn't use it.
2015 was kind of a slow year for gaming for me. I hope to change that in 2016. Anyway, for what it's worth, here's what I played:
Lots of games smashed through this week. I imagine when I finish these under 10 hour games on my list, the amount of games I play each week will reduce to just a few. I kind of can't wait, because it'll make writing these blogs easier. Anyhow, here goes another blast of video games.
Hello Pixlbit, and Happy Friday! The weekend is almost here, which means a couple of days of free time (sorry folks if you have to work on the weekends). I’m currently typing this blog while watching Team USA vs Canada for the right to go to the Gold Medal Game, so I apologize in advance if some of my writing doesn’t make sense. On this nice Friday morning I thought I would add another edition of Quick Hits (CUSS WORD, Canada just scored). For today’s Quick Hits I thought I would cover some Olympic thoughts, The Buccaneers New Helmet, What I’m Playing, and of course Pickups! So let’s get this started…and c’mon USA, get on the board!
Virgin and Microsoft are joining forces to bring online gaming tournaments to Xbox Live. There will be a variety of different tournaments, Virgin promises, including both free-to-play and paid-entry tournaments, some of which will offer cash prizes.
Dirt 3: Complete Edition was originally announced a month ago but no release date was given. A press release mailed to Joystiq by Codemasters today announced the release of Dirt 3: Complete Edition will be March 20, 2012.
I've been playing a lot of video games recently so let's get into this. First things first, I completed Prince of Persia this past Friday. This is my second time going through it, first time with my PC copy of the game and I loved it. That game does truly give you an experience. I also have been playing Condemned on the PC as I try to overcome my fear of horror games. It's not going well. I stopped playing about halfway through the second level. I'll keep trying though (someday). I also started playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the PC and I was having a great time with it. I went all the way to the sixth level (which is about halfway through the game) when my save game file became corrupted and some sort of fatal error screwed up the install files for the game so now I'm screwed and I can't play anymore. I'm thinking of getting the Gold edition of the game for the Xbox 360, as it has eight more characters, but that sucker's like $40-70 bucks!
Codemasters has announced a new retail version of Dirt 3 that will include previously released DLC. Dubbed the "Complete Edition", it'll cost only $40 and will be available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in March. Below is a list of the extra content being included.