Found this by way of my Twitter contacts: Digitarius has started up a new site, KnoxOnlineGamers, aimed at getting Knoxville area gamers connected. Right now it’s just a phpBB forum, but I’m liking it already. Who knows what could come if it in the future.
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It’s a pain in the butt to get any of it working. Go figure. You knew (should have known) you were getting yourself into this kind of thing when you installed 64-bit XP in the first place.
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I’m writing today to show you a glimpse of an indie game that has as much to offer you as almost any console game I’ve ever played (I make special exceptions for truly exceptional games, like Smash Bros). The game is Aquaria an adventure game set underwater much in the lines of Metroid with bits slightly reminiscent of Final Fantasy and borrowing gameplay elements from top-down shooters. I found the game completely by accident as I was trying out the various games from gamma 256 and one of the games, Célu, was not available to download, so I went looking for it, in the process finding a trailer for Aquaria which was another project by the same designer that he was working on with one other person. The video looked amazing and I immediately forgot about Célu to go look for more info on Aquaria.
As it turned out I had discovered the game only a day after its online-exclusive release. As it was, the website for the game was down and I only managed to dig up the off-site purchase link from the Google cache of what used to be the site. After a quick email exchange with the guy, he assured me that though the site was down, the purchase and download process would proceed without problem, so I purchased without hesitation and I have certainly not been disappointed.
Portal came out yesterday. My initial reaction: Sweet moogly it’s a portal; I’m making portals! My opinion now that I’ve beaten the main level set: Portals should be real life and I want heel springs so I don’t take fall damage.
So don’t call me a liar, the official Smash Bros Dojo announced Sonic the Hedgehog’s participation in the new Smash Bros today along with two videos. It was also not announced on the site, but from the source of the original Sonic announcement, the Nintendo Conference Fall 2007, that the Japanese release would be delayed until January 24, 2008. No word on the US release.
I was about to write up a review of Portal, seeing how that came out today (last night at midnight PST) but at the moment I can’t remember how awesome it was in light of this news. Look for a Portal review later today or tomorrow.
