Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

Working at home = Not-Gaming at home

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

Torchlight 2 unlocked this morning, on Steam. But I was able to resist and got in a good morning’s work. At lunch I spent about 20 minutes playing–hey it looks good! And then I went back to work. After work I have a rehearsal, so I won’t actually be able to play until close to […]

Steam “Support”

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Me: Message by you on Tue, 17th Jul 2012 9:23 am Is Steam updating drivers without telling me? Last night I had an “AMD Driver Update” update running that I could not cancel and did not ask for. I am certain that I did not even pull down the main menu, much less select “AMD […]

Isometric Gameplay

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Aside from setting the mood, point of view and graphics in a game are only really relevant to strategy gamers in the sense that they dictate gameplay. As I have recently realized, gameplay is important. Some acquaintances were talking about New Vegas and “whether it was good”, or “better than F3” and so on… I […]