Games for Windows Issue 07

Just finished reading the latest issue of Games for Windows (June 2007) and I must say, I'm still very much impressed with the quality of the content, the articles, artwork and reviews.

The four articles that I enjoyed in this month's issue (well actually next month's, since we're not even in June yet...) were "GFW Live", "Inside Blizzard: World of Warcraft" and the Spore and Mythos preview.

As a current XBOX Live Gold subscriber, I'm looking forward to GFW Live and seeing the various community possibilities it'll offer. Cross-platform gaming will bring in a whole new aspect to bragging rights and plain fun.

And even though I don't play WoW, I was still very much interested in the story behind it's phenomenal success. I'd be first in line to buy a book on the subject. Something along the lines of "Dungeons & Dreamers: From Geek to Chic", a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

As for the two preview, I can't wait to start building organisms and see them evolve in Spore - it's just to bad EA delayed the game until 2008. And I've signed-up for the next Mythos' Beta testing phase. This last one looks like a lot of fun, with some heavy flashbacks to my days of Diablo 2 and carpel tunnel syndrome episodes (thank god for Myoflex).

A galaxy of possibilities...

Why do we play EVE in the first place? And why do we keep playing? The next 2 videos make an effort to explain to the non-capsuleer crowd why that is. The first one is from SenorPez, the second from jviper2323.



This second one is especially great; great footage, great music. Enjoy!

EVE Online links list updated

I spent the better part of the day updating the various of sites on my blog. The Blogroll, EVE Online News, Reference, Tools & Guides, Screenshots, Corporations and Alliances section have all had additional links added and old broken ones removed.

I've added a bunch after reading through my last issue of EON, those I found in the EON Awards nomination article. Most I already add, but some good new ones I was surprised to find.

If you know of good sites that are not listed here, then please let me know so that I may add them. I try to keep up, and only list sites that get updated regularly. So unless the site is well done and current, I might not list it here. Otherwise, please leave me a comment with the site url.