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Battleforge , where to start? I haven’t written a review in a while but wanted to say something about this game as I feel it’s being slightly overlooked by some people.

Let’s start off by looking at what kind of game this is because it’s a complete genre mash-up, at heart it’s an RTS game much like Dawn of War moving units to capture key points, power nodes that provide energy and monuments that allow you to cast more powerful units.

Now mix that with a collectable card came, there is no tech tree in this game, your units depend on what cards you have, and there is a vast array. Cards are sorted into 4 levels designated by orbs/monuments you control, you start off being able to summon level 1 cards and as you capture more monuments your able to summon more and more powerful units.

This strange mix of Collectable Cards and RTS shouldn’t work (more…)

Another couple of months have gone by and I havn’t touched my website, mainly due to copious errors with my web host because the damn thing is never working when i’m in the mood to make a post so I always end up writing a measly few characters on twitter.

And I know I’d rather form complete sentences on my own website than try to cram in my thoughts into 140 characters, though it’s sad but sometimes that’s all that is in my head.

This month the games that have occupied my time are Battleforge (as seen above) a lovely smelting pot of genres, prehaps the worlds first MMOCCRTS, no don’t try and say it (Massively Multiplayer Online Collectable Card Real Time Strategy). I very clever RTS where there is no tech tree for your different units , instead you collect , trade, sell and buy cards to fill out your customisable deck for the battlefield.
Highly reccomended, and free to play from this download link.

Ok, that’s about it I just wanted to do a quick update, expect more soon, and follow me on twitter.

Better blog a bit more ’bout that bear and his bird, as Banjo is back!

I have been absent once again from shadowreality, in the real reality of the real world, Helen my wife has been in hospital with Tendonitus; it was very bad. But now I am here once again, prehaps i need to find a better way of making myself keep up with my blog posts. Anyway lets see what have I been doing…

First off I have been very caught up in a new website Justin.tv, a site pretty much like Ustream where you can broadcast yourself but with a little added advantage. Justin.tv keeps an archive of what you have recorded so either yourself of your viewers can watch old footage that has previously been broadcast, and better yet even make their own clips if they wish!

This in conjunction with me finding a way to broadcast from my Dazzle at last (see new tutorial posted last week) has had me messing around with it to no end.
I have been playing some Call of Duty 4, and awesome moments can instantly be found, and made into a nice little clip to share with others or uploaded to Youtube, plus its quite amazing at how many people WANT to just watch people game, i myself have been browsing other justin.tv users, watching people play some games that I had heard of but never seen.. it really makes you want to play them.

So I’ve kind of been doing some Lets play videos in the vein of the noobtoob condemned vids, it started with Shadow Of the Collosus on PS2, I completed the whole game whilst streaming it all on Justin.tv. People would tune in and see which Collosus I was taking on next, and those who had previously completed it tuned in for some good memories.

And now just yesterday Banjo Tooie has hit , so I’m doing the same on Justin.tv with that. So stay tuned, come and have a look. tell me what you think.

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My cat Tribble has never seen snow before, turns out she likes it.

February is the worst month of the year, it’s always one of the coldest and dreariest months. It has absolutely no happy holidays in it, and no I’m not counting Valentines day and I think it’s a blessing it’s one of the shortest.

I have a need to produce something, I’m not sure what yet but I will get my creative juices flowing again. I also want to mix up this site a little, building upon my previous post, I need change.

Change is always good.

Only a week into 2009 and I have a yearning to start afresh, so don;t be surprised if you see me talking about developing a new wordpress theme in a week or so.

Another year, already?, I wasn’t finished with 2008 yet, doesn’t time fly when your playing a post apocalyptic game of awesomeness. I am of course referring to Fallout3 which I have have been enjoying immensely these past couple of days. It has managed to draw me in completely and so I have been wandering the wastelands with a skip in my step as I poke my nose in every ammunition crate and filing cabinet i come across then kicking back with some ice cold , semi-irradiated nuka-cola.

As for my Christmas it was a very enjoyable one, though I am only now finding some down time, it feels like I have been visiting everyone i know these last couple of days so it’s always good to just chill, and I have found the time to upgrade my site to the latest version of Wordpress, which while i really like.. do they really have to update it THAT often.

Also I have decided that I will move the noobtoob gamertags and leaderboards to it’s own dedicated site, that way I can provide better updgrades and support for it, plus it takes up quite a lot of bandwidth from here.. who’d have thought.

I look forward to a good 2009.

You know what, Christmas is god damn tiring. I wasn’t even in the mood for alcohol Christmas day It has been a very surreal time. I shall be making up for it before 2009 hits though.

I hope all my readers have had a great Christmas, and have felt some of the closeness of their families and friends.

This month I’m extremely thankful to Nitrous71988, who thanked me for all the noobtoob gamercard project by giving me a Banjo Kazooie code for XBLA. I have been thouroughly addicted playing this platformer of the past, it makes me wonder why I never played it much when it was initially out, though i never owned an N64 back in the day it’s not like I never played on one, but then prehaps Banjo isn’t the type of game to play when you have your friends around, thats what Goldeneye 64 is for.

So a huge weekend of collecting Jiggies, hunting Honeycombes, and working out some really clever puzzles has been so good it leaves me to wonder why a 10 year old game has my attention over games released recently. Puzzle platformers like this are hard to come-by these days, so I look forward to the Banjo Tooie release in January, and I must check out Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts now.

With the new dashboard update out I have been updating the code to make it run smoothly and compatible and finally got around to adding the smaller tags, so now you can select to have a slimline version. If you want one, just go visit the noobtoob forums.