Bioware founders retire

It happens to everyone ( who sign up with EA ) sooner or later.

"This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make; after thinking about it for many months, I made the decision to retire from videogames back in early April 2012 -- at that time I provided six months' notice to EA, to help enable a solid transition for my teams at BioWare,"

Better start the counter down for them doing a Kickstarter project. They can't do Baldors Gate, someone else already beat them to it.

Dragon Age III Inquisition Announced

NO

NO

NO

NO

Dragon age 2 is one of the worst games I have ever played and I stopped buying Bioware games that day. The very fact they are calling it Inquisition is just a excuse to put a court room scene into the game, like every other game they have done.   

FTL Released

Is it any good ?

Well I have been playing it all day, which is rare. Its keeped me from playing Guildwars 2, so it is good.

City of Hero's protests

In case you missed it, NCSoft is going to shut down City of Hero's, turns out this made a lot of people unhappy and they started protesting today:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=297058

3,000 people spread over 32 instances.

This shutdown seems as crazy as the Starwars Galaxies closure ( wonder what was more profitable lucsarts, SWG or ToR ).

Anyway I hope they can make the NCSoft executives realise that the game is still popular.

Jeremy Soule: Fear not this night

Wow as if I couldn't get any more excited:

It is the Sylvari theme and it is the song of the pale tree.

This melody has been echoing around since the last Gamescom trailer and its fantastic to hear the final version of it.

8 More days.

Next few months

Its that time again to list off what I am looking forward too in the next few months for gaming.

1) FTL (indy)

http://www.ftlgame.com/

I am looking forward to this as it reminds me of the classic PSI 5 Trading company. I don't know too much about it besides the videos but its a RTS / Roguelike space combat game that concentrates in the internal systems and crew of your ship.

2) PlanetSide 2 (free2play)

http://www.planetside2.com/

The first planetside appeared at wrong time for me. I hated the idea of pay to play games also my internet connection was 128kb/s.

Most of this won't be a problem for PS2 which is free to play.

3) Firefall (free2play)

http://www.firefallthegame.com/

Where planetside is PVP firefall will have more PVE elements. This game is still a unknown, some of the videos from early beta's haven't looked fun but the game has gone under a redesign to try and bring skill and less gear / levels into play.

4) Evochron Merc expansion (indy)

http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/development.htm

Better planets, being able to walk around on them and other improvements to the game which has surpassed freelancer for online space sandbox.

5)TorchLight 2 (indy)

http://www.torchlight2game.com/

Multiplayer, Lan, Random Maps, Custom Characters, Mods, Pets, Fun, Matt Uelmen and no Real Money Auction House CRAP.

The game that diablo wanted to be.

I think that's it, I just have a feeling I am missing something, about cats.

10 Years of Weebl