A Little History: AC2 100 Days Review

One of my better reviews from the old days of GameWatchers was the AC2 100 Days Review.  Since it looks like I have no version of this online anymore, and even archive.org refuses to bring up archives of gamewatchers.net past, I’m reposting it here.  It was originally published around the beginning of March, 2003.  Its a fun look into a game I really enjoyed.

I plan on doing a similar style review for Warhammer Online soon.

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Blog Reboot

Reboot

Though I’m probably keeping all the old articles (including the junk Quickyfeed posts), I’m trying for a Blog Reboot here.

The idea is to actually start posting to the blog about things I’m doing, playing, or watching; or about actual topics!  Amazing that!  I’ve already got a few ideas cooking about things I’ve been working on, so unless I really lose The Drive, I’ll be posting somewhat more regularly.

If you’ve ever seen the blog before, you will probably notice a new theme – Pixeled – which I’ll probably tweak a bit later.  I haven’t tried it in a great many browsers so if you run into issues let me know.  I also switched to IntenseDebate for commenting because they totally rock!

If you’re new to the blog, either through FriendFeed/Twitter or some other site, welcome and enjoy the stay.  If you never noticed that FriendFeed widget on the right – that’s mostly replaced my short one-off posts and the ‘QuickyFeed’ posts since its so easy to post quick stuff there.

So yeah, we’ll see how it goes this time.  This type of post is the typical clichéd ‘OMG I need to post more’ post, in a way, I know, I know.

QuickyFeed

  • Spectra Visual Newsreader (MSNBC news, in a really cool visualization)
  • MMORPG Tycoon
  • MMO Strategy Boardgame
  • Halo 3 Homicide Detective

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  • Superhero Fashion Emergency

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  • Daft Bodies
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYD_-A_X5E[/youtube]
  • The Website is Down
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7RkyBoBc[/youtube]
  • Awesome south-pole Aurora
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icugqEEOgkg[/youtube]
  • Cats on Treadmills
  • Lego Indiana Jones?

QuickyFeed

QuickyFeed

I want Mass Effect screenshots for backgrounds

Ok, so Mass Effect PC comes out soon, and I want some high resolution screenshots to use as backgrounds on my computers.

I was searching around Photobucket and Google Images for some high rez shots of Mass Effect and couldn’t find any that were big enough (likely because 1, its hard to capture images off the outputs of the Xbox 360, and 2, the resolution only goes up to 720 or so… I’m looking for bigger than that to run native resolution on my 24″ at 1920×1200).

So, first person that gets Mass Effect PC – I would love to have the following shots for backgrounds:

  • Citadel Rapid Transit loading screen (the view of the whole Citadel)
  • The Normandy Dock (where you can see much of the citadel), the below image, but bigger!
  • The loading screen or captures of one of the shots of the Mass Relay, (like the below, but obviously much higher quality)
  • Some of the planet skies were just awesome, those would be cool too

There are plenty more awesome scenes that would make good high-rez backgrounds.  I mean, I love my current backgrounds (color-tweaked images from Hubble), but I’d love some good Mass Effect ones.