Monthly archives: octubre 2007

Portal

Portal

I can’t say enough good things about this game. No-one can, it seems. Beautiful, clean, sleek, addictive as hell, and with some of the most entertaining writing I’ve seen in games since Monkey Island. If you haven’t bought / played it yet, I almost feel sorry for you. Go. Play. Now.

This is a triumph. I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!
It’s hard to overstate my
satisfaction…

Machine Death

My PC has been giving me a terrible time of it these past couple of weeks. It’s a long time since I upgraded or maintained it, and I think it’s getting fed up. It’s started turning itself off to spite me. I’m really not sure whether I’m going to fix it this time, or whether I should just bite the bullet and pick up a new machine. A nice shiny fast one, perhaps, which looks like this:-

Apple Mac Pro

Anyway, as a result of my computer woes I’ve not been playing it nearly as much recently – luckily it didn’t die until shortly after I completed Portal – so for the past few weeks I’ve been sticking, for the most part, to playing games on my PSP. I’ve only got three games for it so far, and I must say that while I still prefer the Nintendo DS overall, the PSP does have something to offer, and with the new slim & lite edition the problems with battery life and price have largely been done away with.

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