Looks like we have a few mice on the property.
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App Store Free App of the Week
Checking out the App Store’s Free App of the Week — Pivvot — just happens to be a game! Originally was $2.99.
Pandemic — on the brink.
Yeah, Asia killed us.
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Flipboard comes to the web — and my Gaming Magazine is featured!
Very cool! I’ve been curating a Flipboard magazine for a few months now, gathered a modest following, and now that Flipboard magazine is featured as Flipboard makes the huge leap to sharing magazines on the web!
On Gaming is featured in the ‘Magazines we Love’ section of Flipboard’s Community profiled pages.
So now, you don’t need to view Flipboard magazines only on mobile devices — you can easily find the with any web browser.
Aiiee! The Steam Summer Sale is in full swing. Too much temptation.
Over the last few years I’ve become more of a fan of Steam and a couple of other online delivery services for my PC gaming needs. I can’t actually remember the last PC game I bought in a brick-and-morter store for my desktop.
And now, the Steam Summer Sale is reaching its mid-point and so far, I think I’ve been a very good boy; not bought anything. Yet.
Yes, I have a few items on my Wishlist but I may not pick them up just yet — being a PC and MAC gamer, I tend to prefer games that swing both ways, and also use Steam Cloud for storage / sync.
Though if any one of those games on that list drop below $5.00 — I’ll be getting them, and looking at expanding my local hard drive storage.
Ahh, yes, the pleasure and problems of a lovely summer season and digital gaming. Temptation, monitoring the deals page, and the constant hunt for more drive storage space. Man, I’m livin’ the life :/
Captain on the bridge
About a year or so ago I downloaded a nifty little PC game called Artemis — Starship Simulator.
Actually, that name’s a bit misleading — it’s more of a Star Trek bridge crew simulator. There are other reviews that cover it better, but suffice it to say it’s a cool game to bring to a LAN party or a friends place where you have easy access to the network and a fist-full of laptops. Great if you have access to all that gear, but not that great for a quick and spontaneous game with friends.
Today I discovered the iOS version, and my above comment is nullified.
The iOS version of Artemis works and plays with the PC version, yet does it all on an iPad — even my original iPad 1 running iOS 5.
Each bridge position is controlled from one iPad, though with a quick settings change you can control multiple positions with on a single iPad.
The really cool thing is that an iPad can even act as the game server.
Now, Artemis is not a game for everyone. It’s really a collaborative starship combat simulator, but if you’ve got a few friends and a few iPads, it’s now much easier to host a pickup game on gamenight.
Shields up! Red Alert! Arm photon torpedoes, we’re going in!
I’m quite enjoying Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol!
Yep, I’m having fun with Ace Patrol, as you may have seen in my previous post, it’s a light single/multiplayer, World War I strategic combat game. Airfights consist of up to 8 combatants, four per side, and vary depending on aircraft, pilot skill, and game difficulty level.
Ace Patrol is currently only available for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone in the Canada iTunes store, during this pre-launch period, but it will be available worldwide on May 9th.
I’m having a blast, check out the ingame images below:
