Hegemonia is a game I picked up before x-mas. I bought solely because the guys at Penny Arcade said it was good. It’s a rts game in space. But it’s more. It’s a realtime version of games like Master Of Orion. Here 3 shot of it:

So you can see it has some decent graphics as well. It is a little deep for a rts, I’ve only played the first two levels. It may be a keeper.

Did you hear about how an early version of Doom 3 was leaked onto the net? This was so big it even made CNN. It’s been floating around the net now for almost a month and I finally got a hold of a copy. I know that this is wrong. At least form id’s stand point. And I do happen to agree with them.

But I’m only human. I found a real copy and I had to download it. I won’t give the link out so don’t even ask. Find it yourself. I now know that my computer has once again joined the lowend. I have a AMD Athlon 1.2, Thunderbird with 512mb’s of ram, a GeForce 3 video card, and a nice big 80 gig harddrive. Doom 3 laughs at my pathetic computer. My computer is shit.

I have to run the leaked alpha at 640×480. Everything is on by default graphics wise. I get a very low 6-8 frames per second. God forbid more than one monster is attacking. Wow, playing Doom 3 just doesn’t make me care about my now pathetic computer. What a game. The monster detail is amazing even at 640×480. Here are 6 screenshots of the doom 3 Alpha leek:

By the way, if you have the leak I do have a link for you. It’s to a forum post that explains how to make the alpha work. This’ll Help U Get Doom Running OK is the name of the post. One thing it forgets to mention is the fact that clicking Single Player and then New Game will make the game crash.

Porrasturvat – Stair Dismount is a little game I found that is a lot of fun. Lots of fun in a sick and demented kind of way. The below screenshots are all you need to see for a description of the game.

As you can see it’s a little different. But it is a detailed simulation of knocking some poor bastard down some stairs. You can download it from them or me if you can’t access their site. The 1.98mb file is located down below on my server.

[drain file 27 show]

Age of Mythology is a game I picked up yesterday. It’s published by Microsoft and made by Ensemble Studios. Ensemble Studios are the same people that made Age of Empires and Age of Kings. If you played their games before you will like Mythology. It follows the same pattern of Age of Kings. But has mythical units you can use. All in all it is a lot of fun. Here are some 1024×768 screem shots of the game:

You can expect lots of more screen shots of the games I get. I have the space to waste now.

Well my PC is finally working again. I gave up on the idea of me fixing it myself. So I took it to a local computer store to have them look at it. I’m kicking myself now. I wasted probably two hundred dollars on three fans, a new hard drive, a new cd-rom, and a new power supply. The problem was that one of my sticks of 256mb of ram had gone bad. I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t think of trying different ram.

That stick of bad ram caused a lot of havoc. It was the reason I couldn’t install Windows XP again. It’s amazing what kind of damage one stick of bad ram can do. I’m almost back to the state the computer was in before this all started. It’s hard to believe this has been going on since May 16 of this year.

Needless to say I’m a very happy guy now. Anyway to commemorate the occasion of having a working PC again here are some shots of the recently released Unreal Tournament 2003 (1024×768):

Unreal Tournament 2003 is lots of fun. Everything about UT2003 reminds me of Quake 3. From the menus to the characters and even the levels. I’m not saying this is a bad thing. I’m just saying it’s a lot like Quake 3.

So I finally went done to Gamestop and picked up my copy of Neverwinter Nights. It’s a D&D game done by Bioware, the same guys who did Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2. I have yet to play it at home, because the computer is down again. I have played it a bit at work and it’s the best D&D game yet. Here is a lone screen shot of the game showing off my guy (800×600):

Ok so I have been playing the shit out of Warcraft 3 at work. I admit it. But seeing how the PC at home is not even booting at all now, I have no choice. I have played it a bit at Troy’s. But here at work I can give it all the attention it deserves. So here are two more shots from the work PC(800×600):

Man I really like this game. The four races are different enough that it makes it fun playing each race. The Undead are enough like the Zerg from Starcraft that I’ve decided I don’t like them. Again I say pick this one up if you like what Blizzard does.