Andy Wood

Gamespot has a not new gameplay trailer.

Some new and some old

Sort of (grin)

This past weekend T8RO, iamtaintedmeat and myself (GamersCircle360) sat down and cleaned up the infected “one bullet at a time” in a little Left 4 Dead.

Where I pulled in the following:

Through out the game, T8RO and “meat” (aka iamtaintedmeat) had this constant inner contest going on.

iamtaintedmeat, “Hey T8RO!  I just saved your butt.  No need to thank me.”

T8RO, “Yeah?, whatever , nice kill on the brick wall.  I am sure that wall will never rise from the dead again.”

or

T8RO, “I guess no thanks are in order for pulling the Hunter off you and getting puked on by the boomer and rescuing your butt from the smoker, Meat!”

iamtaintedmeat, “Hey!  thanks, Sorry, I thank you.  Perhaps I was spending that time pulling all of the buckshot out of my back from your daring rescue. Bitch!”

Then iamtaintedmeat got the great idea of downloading Duke Nukem 3D where we had a little Free For All!  Nothing like a little 16bit graphics to get the blood boiling.  Still, I did get this in addition to the above.

We had a maxed out attendance!  Magic: The Gathering 2010 Core Set features 249 black-bordered cards, including randomly inserted premium versions of all cards in the set. It is available in booster packs, intro packs, and fat packs.

Gaming started at 11am and we wrapped up around 4pm, there much trading and a lot of twists with the new rules.

Special thanks to Peter Manning (DCI Judge) whom came out and helped with questions that arouse.

They posted this video which is great and true when it comes to Folsom, CA.

I had to make a comment and thought I would share it -

To set the record straight, she (the Folsom Video Game Girl) did not sell me my Wii.  I got mine from winning a trivia contest at a local event, but she is smart, witty, digs zombies (not literately) is a major geek and sure to become as asset to GamersCircle Comics.

More details as they are made available.

Am I bummed that I have to work on this holiday?

Not one bit!   I get a 1/2 off today and get to sleep in tomorrow.  Awesome!

I feeling a little Left 4 Dead-ish and/or Fall Out 3-ish

Since I played risk for the very first time, I am always enjoyed a good game of risk. (dang dice are always against me)  At the shop yesterday, Dan, Rob, Rich and I sat down and played the latest version of risk.

This reinvention of Risk adds in Objectives.

Instead of conquering the world you can play optionally to capture 3 objectives, of which there are a total of eight possible,  4 major (hard), 4 minor (easier).  In addition to the objectives, there are also rewards that go along with them.

Rewards range from bonus attack or defense die to extra troops per turn, to additional maneuvers.  Each of the rewards are extremely useful, some are like the hand of god.

Also in this version are 15 cities. Each game you shuffle out 15 cards and place the cities on the countries of the cards. This also adds a uniqueness to every game. Cities make a country worth more as much when counting up territories to determine the number of troops you get on your turn.

We played two games, one with the basic rules where the board was pre-set for use and the 2nd was in common room mode.  Each of which it is basically the same game of risk that I remember, but the first player to get 3 objectives wins.

I will be 99 yrs old when first contact happens… Great!

Oh good god!

Don’t get me wrong, loved the movies, thought that the KOTR on the Xbox was fun, but I am a bigger fan of Trek than Wars, but this just looks AWESOME!

Now – many people got this day off and I for one was one of them.  I pretty much work 7 days a week.  Some may say, “Working at a Comic Book store, isn’t really work".  However; there are those days , but yes I have much less stress from my former occupation.

What does one do for their day off when they work 7 days a week?

Slept in, started on my liquid breakfast (Snapple and diet Mt. Dew) and started to play City of Villains’.

I had made arrangements with my normal COH/COV group to start new toons where we all would create Master Minds and play for like 4-5 hours.  Starting around 8.30a, they all slowly started to show up and soon we have about 7 people with all little minions to boss around.  (it was so awesome!)

After playing a little of City of Villains, it was time to watch some Tivo that was saved up and get in a couple more SG-1 Episodes. (currently on Season 6)

Had an awesome lunch, watched more Tivo and SG-1 and then around 6pm, it was back to COV for a Strike Force.

I have a very relaxing day off eating, playing games and watching great stuff on TV.

Here is the gang that showed up for the pre-release.

We filled up about 10 mins before game time, compared to our conflux prerelease.

Thank you all for making this a huge success.