New blog - Unusual phobias

Hi again. I've made yet a new blog!

http://morbidfear.blogspot.com/

An educational blog about unusual and weird phobias - There are a lot of them.

Some posts that might interest you:

-Dikigorosophobia (Fear of a lawyer or lawyers)

 

-Scholionophobia (Fear of a university or universities, school, day care, ...)

 

-Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (Fear of long words)

 

-Triskaidekaphobia (Fear of the number 13)

 

-Introduction and what are phobias?

[Boardgame] Monopoly: World of Warcraft & Risk: Starcraft

Blizzard has signed a contract with USAopoly that means that World of Warcraft will be released in Monopoly version and a Starcraft version of Risk. The games will introduce several new game elements. They will be introduced at a games fair today, Sunday, February 12, in New York.
 

Monopoly: World of Warcraft works with a Horde and Alliance-dice. Your real estate markets are the Twilight Highlands and The Swamp of Sorrows. It will be available in May in North America.




In RISK: Starcraft you can of course choose to play as Terran, Protoss or Zerg. There are six unique heroes for your army to enter. The winner is the player with the best military strategy. The game will include nearly 300 components, including of course a lot of units in Starcraft 2. The game will be released somewhere in the summer.



It's cool that videogames are getting more implemented in the board game world, but yet another version of these two old-fashioned games, were we really waiting for those?

This is why I've bought Skyrim on PC - Creation Kit preview

Bethesda uploaded this video today and it shows us the Creation Kit and the Skyrim Workshop.

User generated content can be much better than what you already get, so it's really cool of Bethesda to provide us with a kit.

This is exactly why I bought Skyrim on PC.

2011, a good year for gaming?

 

2011 was overall quite a disappointing year for gaming.
There were some gems, but mostly bad titles and hardware.

Let's take a look at some of them.

Kinect + its games 
It's a useful way to navigate the 360's dashboard. That's about all the Kinect has been good for shortly after people buy it. Why? Because it's been out for over a year now and there still aren't any proper games for it beyond cheap kids titles and party games.
Not good, Microsoft.


The 3DS + its games
This has to be the most disappointing gaming handheld of the 21st century.

"A botched reveal, a ridiculous price-tag, a cumbersome UI, no second thumbstick and no decent games." 

Pumping out the same handheld and games for years won't do much good, Nintendo.

 
 Duke Nukem Forever
Ahh, Duke Nukem. Him and I go way back.
Duke Nukem Forever has been in development since 1996, but came out this year. Was it worth the wait? No, no it wasn't.




 Homefront
There were such high hopes for this game. A lot of money was spent, a lot of hype generated. Then people played it, found out the setting was stupid, the story overwrought, the singleplayer terrifyingly short (both on length and ideas) and the multiplayer a novelty that was never going to lure people from whatever shooter they were already playing. 


Brink
Like Homefront, this was an original title that many had high hopes for. Its bold art design couldn't hide a launch marred by technical issues and people not quite "getting" the game, though, and while it seems to have stabilised in recent months, Brink will never be the top=-shelf multiplayer shooter it wanted to be. 



2012 seems promising, though.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Diablo III

Doom 4
Dota 2
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Guild Wars 2
Mass Effect 3
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Soulcalibur V
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
The Last Guardian

    

Skyrim - Unarmed Badass Viking Commentary

I am actually going to try this HA! He has some nice tips, aswel.

I'm visiting family right now, haven't played any game for a week now.

I currently have
A nord, level 26, one handed, destruction- and restoration magic
A dark elf, level 9, magic only
Next is probably a Khajit, unarmed only. My mouse is going to feel it...

Ubisoft have just announced Rainbow 6 Patriots

http://rainbowsixgame.uk.ubi.com/home.php

It’s being developed by Ubisoft Montreal with the support of Ubisoft Toronto and Ubisoft Red Storm, and will arrive on PC in 2013. The single player campaign will pit Team Rainbow (goodies) against the True Patriots (baddies). The latter are a revolutionist group who claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians. So far, so Clancy.

Details are scarce, but we do know that you’ll be playing as Team Rainbow and will need to make “tough ethical decisions” to stop the “new breed” of terrorists. The campaign will be presented from different character’s perspectives, and there’ll be a fresh selection of co-op and multiplayer modes present.
“Terrorism has evolved, and so has Rainbow 6,” says David Sears, creative director. Poor choice of words there, David.- PCGamer

Not much more has been revealed, but definitely will keep you updated.