Sunday, May 04, 2008

Cyber Nations
I was looking around for a free, in-browser, text-based MMO that wouldn't take too much time and came across Cyber Nations. I tried Nexus Wars but didn't care for the interface and found it tedious. Not to mention the game is set up such that people can (and will) kill your character while you're signed off. Not sure about Cyber Nations yet, but I've got my first trade partnership and am fending off lots of Alliance invitations until I decide if I'm going to stick with it. If you're looking for a free game with a low time commitment and somebody you know already playing, check it out.

Labels: games

15:46 c-dog

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Gary Gygax, RIP. Really tough to overstate how Dungeons & Dragons changed the way we (boys) played in the past three decades.

Labels: games, obit

08:42 bone daddy

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Another Test
After passing their gut check game against North Carolina - trailing 11 at the half in their first big game without Mel Thomas, coming back to win by 11 - the Huskies play No. 16 Notre Dame tonight on ESPN2. Be nice for another big UConn win in Indiana.

Labels: games, TV, uconn

11:17 bone daddy

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Oh no you didn't! Don Shula, coach of NFL's only unbeaten team (so far), talks a little smack about the Patriots and spygate. If every three weeks or so, some large media or NFL figure could make these sorts of comments, this Patriots fan would really appreciate it. Please everyone, make them mad.

Labels: games, sports

14:43 bone daddy

Monday, September 17, 2007

Sports Night, Villians Win Edition!As both a Patriots and Yankees fan, I'm one of the few New England sports fans who is all around happy about last night. The Patriots' dismantling of the Chargers showed that to their already stacked team they have added a chip on their shoulders. (Thanks, Jets!) I have mixed feelings about cameragate. I don't think any fan knows how bad the cheating was. If the cameraman had been in the stands, would this have been legal? Don't coaches assume they're being watched when the send the signals in? Isn't this why athletes and coaches always talk through their gloves or the play sheet? Did they store this for future information or use it during a game? Part of me doesn't get the big deal. Were the Patriots just more brazen about what everyone does?

Maybe there's more. Maybe the Pats defense was illegally wired. Maybe the Jets are right and the Patriots had tapped their radios. (See and everyone wondered what Tom Brady was doing at Bush's State of the Union. It wasn't anti-steriods, it was pro-illegal eavesdropping.)

The Yankees-Red Sox game, less hyped but more exciting, changed little in the grand scheme of things. The Sox are probably winning the division with the Yanks taking the wild card. Nice to see a great Jeter HR, take 2 of 3, and wonder what Red Sox Nation means when it chants "MVP! MVP!" for Papi. "We think in other years you have played like an MVP. Is it okay if we remind you of that during this, a rather non-MVP year?" This game did matter psychologically for the post-season. The Sox have had a much better year than the Yanks. Yet the season series ends at 10-8, Yanks. The Sox have yet to prove they can really handle the Yanks, which has to hurt should they meet again.

Labels: baseball, games, sports

08:57 bone daddy

Friday, September 07, 2007

If you're like me, easy quizes make you feel good about yourself. Here's an easy movie quiz about movies from the last 25 years. (Although the first one is about Star Wars?)

Labels: games, movies

13:49 bone daddy

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Worst Smack Talk Ever Since c-dog and I were they only ones to sign up on the fantasy movie mogul game you might think I wouldn't take much pride in my victory. You'd be wrong.

"Yo, c-dog! Your powers of predicting successful movies based on their posters are clearly inferior to mine!"

Um ...

"The capitalist success of my slate clearly proves my moral superiority to you. And your mother."

Hmmmm...

"You come at me with Waitress? What were you thinkin', bee-yotch?"

Well ...

"Other people made 800 something million off my movies and all I got was ... hey, can I get a T-shirt somewhere?"

Okay, there's no smack-talking possibilities, but a win is a win.

Labels: fantasy sports, games, movies

23:02 bone daddy

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Bloxorz
Giving Desktop Tower Defense a run for its money.

Labels: games

11:01 c-dog

Friday, April 20, 2007

RIYL Tower Defense: Desktop Tower Defense
More addicting.

Labels: games

23:13 c-dog

Saturday, April 07, 2007

If you happen to be a TV poker viewer, you'll have to figure out where the Game Show Network is on your TV since that's where the World Poker Tour will be. I never really figured out why it was on the Travel Channel anyway. They never particularly toured the casinos, which are hermetically sealed from their communities anyway.

Labels: games, sports, TV

12:13 bone daddy

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Commodore is back with new high-end gaming computers. They come preloaded with a Commodore 64 emulator and classic titles.

Labels: games

18:38 HD

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Tower Defence
I'm addicted. Best score so far 71.

Labels: games

19:36 c-dog