The Iron Grip of Videogames

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Oct 222011
 
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This chap is the commander of my various armies

So I have been busy these past two weeks and haven’t had much time to write about what I’ve been up to. I had a Java exam that I needed to revise for so I was mostly doing that. I discovered, through steam, a free to play game that provided a little relief between study called Iron Grip: Marauders. It’s a fun turn based tank-and-infantry steam punk game. The graphics are passable in my opinion, but others may find them primitive. At the end of the day, it is a free indie game that the developers have not got around to monetising yet. It is a lot of fun and has as small but enthusiastic following. The weekend before my mid-week exam I played a raid that took about 20 minutes then sent my heroes off on a smuggling jaunt, a handy way of preventing me from using my troops for 6 hours while I got back to studying.

After closing the game, Steam opened a new window showing a special deal; Fable III and all DLC for 66% off. Now I have been a big fan of the Fable series since playing the first one on the original X-Box and i have been waiting for this one to drop in price ever since it appeared on Steam. Obviously 5 days before my big exam was the worst time for this so I bought it but didn’t download it until afterwards. Then I played it. A lot.

Tasty Jelibon

Tasty Jelibon

In between playing I have found a bit of time to rearrange Gonzo Tourism so it looks much neater and put something up on Excellent Quiche; Terrible Dicks so go check them out. EQ; TD is my less coherent blog based on things I see and stuff that occurs to me based on certain criteria. The chap who inspired the blog and it’s name has been cycling to Australia and also writing about stuff that has happened on the way including this new, and frankly disturbing post. Go read it.

I should have something new to write about at the beginning of next month.

— af