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01/10/2016

22/08/2016

Celebrating mediocrity... (5k views)

Arn´t they cute.. they are unrelated to today´s post.

So... I hit a sort of milestone. And since i am born in the eighties i always try to celebrate even the small things.

I hit 5k views... Yeah... in total.... Not in a day... or a month.... or even.. sad to say.. a year... No it took about two years.

But that is also way more than i actually thought i was going to get. Sure a part of those are crawlers and other types of trackers. But i am still proud because i kept at it and following through has never been my strongest point when left to my own devices without a concrete goal or deadline.

So i´l try to dig up some digital swag and giver it away later in the week. You know.. to celebrate. =P

So what now...? Not much, i´l keep on trucking and see if we can hit 10k in one year perhaps. Than 15k in six months... who knows.

I have also started to work on a little side project... The guys sitting the the top of the page. Who and what will come at a later date as that is around version 0.5.

So.. Thanks for the time and let us get another 5k views together.

Cheers.

05/09/2014

Throwing down the gauntlet... and give it away.

So in conjunction with my giveaway that you can find on the competition and giveaways page located to the right I felt it was a good time and place to give my thoughts on the remake of what can be described as a true classic. And while I have yet to play the game I have taken a in-depth look at the material presented for the game and I will also give my recollections on the original game. I hope to be able to give the game a proper run through at a later date and give my full review of the game in question.

So let´s kick down the door and loot the room.

The original Gauntlet game still holds a place in my mind as one of the most difficult games I ever played. But then again I am born 1981 so it was not exactly in my late teens i played it. But it was a challenge and the multiplayer aspect of it was really interesting. But I moved on to bigger and better things and by the time Diablo came out I did not really give Gauntlet a second through beyond “this looks familiar” in relation to diablo. But then I caught wind of a new breath of life for the old game.

So punched the closest search engine and after apologizing I typed in gauntlet…. Once the spell-check was done telling me I misspelt gauntlet I found it was Arrowhead studio… You know the guys who made Magica. If you do not know what Magica is go and look it up now… Or well… read this post and then look it up. Any way it gave me some confidence that it would be done well seeing as the core of Magica is four way co-op.

Arrowhead have admitted that Gauntlet was one of the core inspirations behind Magica and I always like it when there is some real passion behind a project. But it of course have to come down to gameplay in the end. And for Gauntlet that will be sort of difficult as the classic game did not really have much in the way of that. So to get a game that will pull in both new players and people who have the nostalgia glasses on will be hard.

Well if nothing else comes from it. It looks fantastic and seems to me to be a good “kill five minutes” game that does not ask you to sink an entire evening in to it.

I will return with a more in-depth look once I have played the game.

03/09/2014

To toss a man in a pod… And announcing a giveaway

So with the summer over I once again can look forward to new seasons of most of the pod-casts I follow and since I am back communing to University I have time to listen to them. Not that there is that many of them. But I felt I should give them some time in the spotlight.

I am so happy i am glowing.

First up is the pod that is set to return today. Nördigt

Nördigt is a Swedish pod-cast about geek and nerd culture in general and serves up a weekly dose of reviews, spoilers, interviews and a good amount of humour. The pod Is mainly broken down in to subject by matter. So you have a part of the pod talking about games, then a separate section talking about books or comics and so on. They usually also feature mixed mash-ups between their own theme and themes from shows and games. Pretty funny stuff.

I highly recommend this pod if you can understand Swedish… Or if you don´t listen to it any way form some good “Swedish chef” moments.

My second pick is Svamppod Fyrkant a gaming pod-cast with a strong console leaning. But seeing as it is the crew from Swedish gaming site Svampriket (Mushroom kingdom) that should come as no surprise. This is not a Nintendo podcast despite the name. It follows a loose format of the members talking about what they have recently played and then moving in to news and listener mailbag. While not as tight as Nördigt the focus on gaming makes it less hit or miss subject wise and while I am mostly a PC player myself it is nice to hear about how the other side lives. They also have a few specialty episodes such a a current series of spoilercasts for the mass effect series. Part one covering Mass Effect 1 is out and the sequels are to be covered in episodes released later in the year.

Again I think it is worth listening to and if you happen to have kids they have a family oriented show Svamppod junior.

Now going in to pods that have not been on hiatus but I just have not listen to as much, are two Smodcast shows. Smodcast ofc is the Pod cast Empire of Kevin Smith. Kevin is mostly known as the man who made the Clerks movies.

Jay andSilent Bob get old is actually not about Jay and Silent Bob… It began as an intervention podcast to help Jason Mewes who played Jay in most of Kevin Smith’s movies staying sober and accountable. But have since evolved for the most part in to a slice of life show. I recommend it if nothing else for you to listen to the earliest episodes as Jason tells his story from cradle to very close to the grave and you can follow in the show the transformation of a man. Beyond that the talk is mostly about sex, dick and fart jokes, weed and what is going on in their lives. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea but I find it good easy listening.

Finally we have Fatman on BatMan.

This is pretty much nerdvana if you are a fan of DC comics as Kevin Smith sits down with most of the big names in DC who have in one way or another worked on Batman, or people that are in other ways related to the caped crusader. It give you a very personal glimpse in to the mind of people like Denny O´Neil, Grant Morrison, Paul Dini and Mark Hamil. Simply a very fun and at times very incoherent show. But if you like a free lecture by some of the biggest names in comics this is the show to listen to. Not only will you get a understanding for how we came to where we are today but you will also realize that getting in to comics is mostly luck and attitude.

Now when you have something to listen to I will explain a little about the give-away.

First I can say happens because this blog reached its first milestone of 500 views. Now it might now sound like much but I appreciate each and every one and i feel it is worth to celebrate. I will hold these giveaways each time we reach a milestone and when I come across cool stuff. Some will be digital and some will be physical goods. But to not exclude anyone I will do my best to keep these as digital goods.

So come this Friday I will post the giveaway on the contest and giveaways page found to the right

that will run from Friday 18:00 CET to Monday 18:00 CET and by simply doing something to helpme spread the word of my blog you will be entered in to a raffle and could win a special item provided by #LootCrate for use in the game Gauntlet.

So stop by Friday and check out the details and if you feel that this is a dud. Do not worry there will come other chances for other stuff down the road!