My ProGaming Life

This week’s Midweek Madness is friggin epic. Quite honestly if you don’t already own altitude… You need to. In the wake of last week’s Wings of Prey flying fiasco, I have to advise you to by this game. Not only is it one of the only half-way decent flying games on steam, but it’s easily one of the most fun games on steam. Check my profile. See all that time I’ve chocked up. THAT’S JUST TODAY… AT WORK… I plan on playing the hell outta this one, it’s addictive as shit, and at a full two dollars… you should to.

Anyways, you should probably do what I did. For the full price of just altitude you can, for the next few days, get seven indie titles. Most of which look decent. So splurge now, cause it’s hard to beat a 7 for 1 deal.

Kick-Ass trailer from Punchline Magazine on Vimeo.

I stumbled upon an article today on geek.com regarding some interesting news about the unreal engine.

Article on geek.com

Apparently the Unreal Team is already hard at work on Unreal Engine 4, despite the fact that it won’t run on current hardware. In fact not even the next generation of consoles, which we know virtually nothing about, are up to the task.

In fact, speculation suggests that a cpu with 12 (or more) cores might be required to properly handle the engine.

Makes me kinda sad to know that not even my 4ghz hyper-threaded i7 beast is up to the challenge… I guess it’s back to the drawing board for the hardware team.

So there’s three games on sale this week and there all up for grabs. The three games are as follows:

1. Wings of Prey 50% off

This is the ACTUAL mid-week madness for this week and admittedly I was initially looking forward to this game. I was always a fan of dog-fighting games and don’t have one on steam… that I can remember.

However, after learning that this game not only have a three install limit, entirely unsuitable for a system builder, but also requires the installation of a seperate game client to run… I’m out. Maybe if this game drops below the $15 mark I could endorse it, but until then it’s a no-buy from me.

2. Serious Sam HD 50% off

This is the game you should be looking to buy. It’s actually on sale until march 2nd, so you can even wait for your check if you have to. Unfortunately I purchased this back in the Christmas sale, so I’ve no real reason to buy it now. But if you’ve missed out on the gem in the past, Now is the perfect time to hop on board the Sam-wagon. Old skool gameplay, new skool graphics… What’s not to love!

3. Hammer Fight 50%

If, like me, you already own Serious Sam perhaps you should be looking a little lower. Like at this Indie Gem. Hammer fight seems simple, and probably is, but thats exactly what I need on my laptop. Simple but fun games that can run on my core duo with integrated graphics. I’m picking this one up as a distraction from work.

Oh a helpful hint, Hammerfight is on sale this week, but the whole KranX pack is available for only $9.99 The usual cost of hammer fight alone. Personally, I’m gonna go this route. 3 games for the price of 1? I’m in.

Well if you don’t know by now, you might not even care. But Steam, the number one digital distribution platform for games, has just completely updated their user interface.

Why does this matter? Because it’s sick! They’ve gone all web 2.0 and I personally think that’s a good thing. Currently the new interface is still in beta, so you have to opt-in using the settings menu in your steam client. I strongly suggest you do.

Here’s a link to the News Update on the Steam website: http://store.steampowered.com/news/3501/

Enjoy,

Zypher

Okay guys,

So I’ve finally updated the site with the oldest entries I have. That brings our total archive to… well.. Over a year! That’s right, over one consecutive years worth of entries are now hosted. Finally! we’ve been around for awhile now but this is the first time that many posts have been consolidated.

Here’s a toast to progaminglife.com and it’s readers. May your nights be long, your work days short, and may gaming become a recognized sport!

~Zypher

We’ve all had that occasional weekend spree, ya know the kind. It’s raining/snowing outside, you’ve just managed to get a copy of that new game, and there’s nothing at all on TV. In a situation like that it’s more than acceptable to rack up 24hrs in a weekend, hell it’s respectable.

But then there’s the games, the true time vampires of the video game world, which suck the very soul from you when your away from them. This is a list of those very games, the very games which have, according to my x fire profile, leeched the most moments from my life.

5. Fallout 3

Honestly I’m surprised to see this game is only number 5. I feel I’ve lived vicariously in the shoes of the wasteland wanderer more even than I’ve lived my own life… Albeit that’s impossible, but you get the picture. With all there is to do and see in this game, it’s hard for me to put it down Once I start playing.

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Fallout 3 AER9 Laser Rifle

Volpin Props: Fallout 3 AER9 Laser Rifle.

Not to be confined into making large scale autonomous killing machines, Volpin Props designer Harrison Krix knocked out yet another awesome post in September. This one, well… It blows me away. An almost perfect replica of the Fallout 3 Laser rifle.

Now I only say “almost” perfect, because honestly… It’s better than perfect. He didn’t have enough detailed specs to design the prop and thus had to actually improvise a lot of the design elements. The results speak for themselves.

Keep it up man. I wish you had some free time on your hands so you could squeeze in a project for me. I could really use a scale model of the Rocket Launcher from UT3.

Unreal Tournament 3 Rocket Launcher