Back to School

Oh hey!

The past few weeks have been pretty hectic and fun filled, the last week I have barely played any games as I have been changing my life.

Well, that's pretty ambiguous isn't it? why would I want to change your life, I hear you say? I mean, you have it pretty sweet.. you know, playing games and watching people play games all day!

Since you ask, I shall tell you! I decided I wanted to better myself. Or rather, I came to the realization that unless I wanted to work in a call center for the rest of my life I needed to do something about it. So that's what I'm going to do.

As of, I think two weeks ago I signed up to go back to college.. I say go back, but I never went in the first place so I think the real phrase is that I am going back into full time education. I'm going to do networking and web design; with the option a year down the line to stay in that field or swap to game design and development. I have my induction day tomorrow, then the course starts on Thursday I think.. but I will have to double check that!

On top of that, I attended a good friends wedding.. so I had to get a new suit and all the trimmings as my old suit didn't quite fit anymore and not in a good way :(((( the wedding itself was great and saw a few old friends that I haven't seen for a while.

Games wise? Well, let me tell you... The Sims 3 stole at least a week of my life before I decided(well it was strongly suggested by my lovely other half) that I needed to take a break and play a more 'manly' game.. so I booted up X-com: Enemy Unknown. I had forgotten how fun it is! I started a new game and put it on ironman, which means that you can't load any older saves.. if you feck it up, you have to live with it.

Well, I think that's all from me for now.. another update will follow in a couple of days.. after I've had my induction!

Ciao for now!

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I'm baaack

Okay so I know I've had quite some time off from writing here!

There has been a lot going on, obviously! I've been trying to concentrate on work and of course my little free time has been put into playing a few games.

But what have I been playing? Well, that is the question! I finally set up a Steam account - most people I know found it crazy that I didn't have one! I guess I was dubious about the whole thing.. then forgot about it for a long while! I never needed it when I was at Blizzard as I was more than happy logging into WoW for a few hours and massing many hours playing and watching Starcraft 2 and then Diablo 3.

So, my first impressions of Steam is pretty good! The whole reason I set up one, was because I got given a beta invitation for Dota 2. Which is a pretty darn fun game, when you get the hang of it! It's a MOBA - which means Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. I'll go into a bit more details about that at another time!

After I had played a few too many hours of Dota 2, the Christmas sale started on Steam.. oh boy, such an incredible amount of savings were to be had! Why hadn't I started up Steam before??

I managed to pick up a couple of games - X-Com: Enemy Unknown, Civilisation V: Gods and Kings expansion, Age of Empires 3, Bioshock 1&2..

I plan to write some sort of reviews for all of them as I play through them but since I bought them I haven't had too much time to sit down and get nitty gritty with all of them! Most of my game-time was spent playing X-Com and Civ 5... purely because I remember playing the first X-Com games and the first Civ games oh so many moons ago!

Then I picked up another game, Ace of Spades - which I didn't think I would be too keen on, since I hadn't played Minecraft.. and this is very much like Minecraft but with guns! You can check out the launch trailer here.

That's me for now I think, promise I will be back soon!

Ciao for now!

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