"Minister of Culture"

Ha Ha! That rocks!

Did you know Runic Games' (maker of Torchlight, which I by the way did a review for over at Pressfire) Community Manager have a bit of an unothorodox title... Namely "Minister of Culture".

I wonder if it would suit me?

- Hello, sir. Why yes, I am the Minister of Culture for Planet Calypso.

No? How about Head of Trolls? Treasurer of Cookies? Harvester of Hugs? Flame Bait?

Crazy Zelda Cosplay!

Rune Håkonsen shared this one on his Twitter: Crazy Cosplay of Zelda, Dark Link and Co! Really makes me go back to that wish about having the balls to cosplay..

Steam Holiday Sale Lootbag

I bet you guys have rolled your eyes plenty times when girls wiggle of glee over the sound of the word "Sale".
Like my little sister said when she visited me last summer here in Gothenburg; "Rea (sale) is the most beautiful Swedish word that is."

Now imagine that their glee over 50% off trousers, shirts, dresses, six-pences, pantaloons and what-not is somewhere close to what you felt, oh avid gamer, when you saw Steam's holiday sale. And I gotta admit, as much as I do love shoes and shiny things and colors you can actually wear and not just look at, it exited me more then any clothing sale could ever do.

Granted we didn't buy that much, I would have liked to buy a lot more.. The steam sale is just a too good opportunity to pass up on getting some of the games you'd thought about playing but never got around to. The Indie Packs were hilariously cheap though and almost made me feel bad about not spending more on all those great games.

Here's what I ended up with:

• Indie Brain Pack:

1. Zen Bound 2
2. Diamond Dan
3. Puzzle Bots
4. Windosill
5. Big Brain Wolf

• Indie Adventure Pack:

1. Mr Robot
2. Jolly Rover
3. Gish
4. Samorost 2
5. And Yet it Moves

• Indie Heavy Hitters:

1. Audiosurf
2. Braid
3. Osmos
4. Shattered Horizon
5. The Maw
6. Zero Clash
7. Trine (Had this already)
8. World of Goo (Had this already)

• The Ball
• Greed Corp
• Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
  
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R pack:
  
  1. Shadow of Chernobyl
  2. Call of Pripyat

Happy New Year!

Bloody hell Im bad at this blogging thing, eh? I gotta remind myself to keep writing here.

So anyway, a funny story about me and Jerry's Christmas-presents.

For a long time now, we've thought about getting a Wii. Usually we play such "serious" games as strategy, RTS, MMO's and FPS, and the Wii would be good for 3 things:

• A different, more casual type of entrainment
  
• A good console for having friends over
• The Wii Fit.

So of course I figured it'd be a perfect gift this year, and called up to Hammerfest in November to reserve a 25th Anniversary Wii. My family owns a toyshop which happens to sell Nintendo so that was only a natural thing to do. When we got up to Hammerfest for the Christmas vacation, we browsed the shop and looked at the Wii's. Jerry said "The Red one is the nicer one, isn't it?" and I agreed, now happily having it confirmed that I had made the right choice over the Black or White Wii. I couldn't wait for him to unwrap it at Christmas eve.

Pretty!

Now it belongs to the story that my family lives on top of this toyshop. The shop is on level 1-2 while their apartment is on 3rd and 4th floor, which is also where we stayed during our visit.

So one day, I believe it was the 22nd December, I'm in my pyjamas, and Jerry goes out to the minibank to get money for some reason I cannot remember. Suddenly by stepdad comes running up to the apartment SCREAMING my name, and then says that Jerry is downstairs buying me a Wii for Christmas. The Red One.

God damn man stole my Christmas-present idea! Now I had to let my stepdad pretend like nothing, because I didn't want Jerry to know that I knew what his gift was - after all the greatest thing about gifts is giving them, and I didn't want to rob him of that feeling of getting a great gift... Even if he just stole mine.

Christmas Eve came and I'm not sure I've ever seen such a crazy amount of gifts underneath the tree, especially considering that the youngest in the house is 17 soon 18. In the midst of the unwrapping mayhem I was trying to keep track of some of my presents; some of them were not to be opened until later.
And then I got my present from Jerry, and I gave him his present from me. I brought out my poker-face; weighted the box, sized it up, made a comment that these shoes were heavier then I thought they would be. And I opened it up and I had a sincere smile of glee, not because Im good at faking it, but because the moment was so precious knowing what was coming. And then he unwrapped his present from me, which was Mario Kart and Metroid Prime Triology for the Wii.

I don't think I've ever seen a man that confused before. His face had an expression I did not know existed outside comic-books.

It was precious.

We ended up with the following Wii set-up at the end:

• 25th Anniversary Edt. Wii with New Super Mario Bros, original Donkey Kong and Wii Sports.
• Metroid Prime Triology
• Black Wiimote with Wii Motion Plus + Black Nunchuck
• Mario Kart + Wheel
• Wii Fit Plus (Board and game)
• Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Now I really gotta find a couple of the games I've been dying to try out. The latest Raving Rabbids, Epic Mickey.. Ack!

Gingerbread Mario

Me and Jerry made a Mario Gingerbreadhouse last year. Since I forgot to post it then, and this is the season to be jolly; here it is! :)

Since we didnt have any fancy color-glaze, the color is actually cake-toppings. Now, most of these cake-toppings were actually in one of them sprinkles-boxes with a multitude of colors, so first you had to separate all the colors and then put them in the right spot... we used tweezers.

Yeah, the things you do when you're at your parents house for christmas without your gaming rig, eh? :)

Cosplay, Yay or Nay?

Alright, Cosplay is basically one of the outer limits of geekyness right? Its one of those things whom many of us with a geeky heart look at, talk about and admire -but we never dare to do it ourselves unless we can joke about it, somehow. I've flirted with the idea, but I gotta admit Im too much of a whuss unless invited to a party where it is mandatory. (please someone, make a cosplay-birthdayparty and force me to come.)

But if you got the opportunity to wear this, would you manage to say no?



I know I wouldn't! I think I fell in love.

The cosplayer pictured is swedish Jenni Källberg, or "The Worlds Greatest Metroid Cosplayer". I got the link from a friend of mine, Zhiva, who's such a die-hard he's got Samus tattooed on his leg. I can just imagine his face full of glee when he saw this article the first time. It makes me happy!

Read more at Kotaku, or go straight to the source at pixelninja, Jenni's own site featuring more cosplay-photos including Metal Gear Solid, Zelda, Ghost in the Shell, Battle Royale, and even Princess Peach plus many more things wonderful! Love!

Hallo!

I've been meaning to start blogging again, just like I've been meaning to start twittering again. Since last year, a lot have happened in my life. I've moved to Gothenburg permanently, for one thing. I got a job here as a Community Manager for Planet Calypso, so that's been eating up a lot of my willpower for social medias. I run the forum PlanetCalypsoForum.com... But yes, enough about work. While this blog used to be a lot about Entropia (as well as my other games) Im going to try keep work off it, and attempt to keep this blog more personally me.

So what have I been up to lately other then work?
Uh.

Good question.

On the game front its pretty easy. I've been playing Fallout: New Vegas, Civilization 5, I just finished Portal (because I'm honestly ages behind everyone else it seems), I played Dead Rising 2 recently.. And a whole lot of HoMM5. That's what I've played recently.. Since last, that's a whole other story. Not going to go into that, it'll certainly ruin my fingers.

Head on over to...

Head on over to Pressfire.no to check out their latest addition, the gaming blog! Featuring yours truly. 

This means I might not update this blog as often anymore, but Ill try. Im sure someone will nag, you lot always do ;) I might also do some reviews and such - time will show. Stay tuned!

Oh, October.

Oh October,
you are way too short.
And too close to November, that is close to December. 

I fear I'm going to spend all my monies on games. Oh deary me. I guess my family and friends will get macaroni-art wrapped in toilet-paper for Christmas. 

There's so much to do.
First of all, I've preordered Fallout 3 Game of The Year set, with all the add-ons. I've decided to play through it again now that I have a more proper PC. I hadn't played any of the add-ons anyway, so might as well just start all over again. Its so worth it. Due October 16th.

And Machinarium is also coming October 16th. It looks like a cute little platform, and certainly seem to suit the whole post-apocalyptic month theme I'm having. So that's down on my list.

And then I've preordered Borderlands as well. Now that's something Im really looking forward to. Due October 30th. 

And then there's the deposits in Entropia... 

And whatever else comes along. When was that Baldurs Gate sequel supposed to drop?

How to Liberate Mars

... Well, in all honesty Mars shouldn't be liberated should it? I mean finally us girls have the upper hand it seems, in controlling sexuality and using that feminine Venus-power to control them, buwhahaha...

No seriously. I liberated Mars the other day by playing Red Faction: Guerilla. Its a fun game, Ill admit, but a bit repetitive. I gotta say its a blast to blow things up (fun pun, drumroll inserted.) even if destroying a whole EDF to itsy bitsy pieces means a bit of lag for my 8 gb ram/GTX 275 machine. 

The missions were pretty much the same though. Save hostages, Raid EDF, Defend the bases, Transport vehicles (which I found out was a whole lot easier when taking "en spansk en", shortcuts.) and blow things up in creative ways. The only storyline was the main one, and I gotta say I missed having some personality in the rest of the missions, instead of being so generic. 

When I finished the last mission I kind of hoped it would open up some fun and quirky missions, but no such luck. The only "personality" I really liked in RF:G was Jenkins. Cool dude. 
Either way what I realized when I ended the game was that I really missed the humor and weirdness of Fallout 3. Missing another game when ending one, isn't really the ideal. But RF:G was worth the money, still.  

Anyway, I think Ill play the F3 expansionpacks now, as I haven't done that yet.