Tuesday, February 2, 2010
I made Lt. Commander last night in Star Trek Online. This is a milestone event. This is the first time you get to pick your new ship, the second specialization you make after creating your character. I was looking forward to leaving the Miranda class light cruiser behind. The Lockheed had served me well for [...]
Lieutenant Karina Prax, of the USS Lockheed.
Captain’s log, supplemental.
Our assignment was simple, scan Gorn facilities in this remote asteroid belt to make sure that they weren’t stockpiling weapons of mass destruction of any sort.
The Gorn, of course, were having none of it, and we found ourselves on the receiving end of a volley of disruptor [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
It builds, slowly. It could be anything. A stutter in framerate. A texture tear. Just the feeling that things could look better when I’m shooting Skaggs in the wilds of Pandora. (Yep. Still playing Borderlands.) So I think about my current setup, and I have to wonder if there’s anything else I can do, other [...]
Man, they patched the hell out of this thing.
UI improvements are the first thing that caught my eye. I can’t say anything about stability yet because, well, I’m here writing this and not playing the game because it crashed out when I started typing in chat during a heated space battle.
Still, it’s a lot of [...]
In the pilot episode, Trill Karina Prax becomes captain of the USS Lockheed. After a surprise Borg attack kills off all other senior officers, she is surprised to find out that she is the highest ranking personnel remaining on board the Lockheed. Unfazed (or should that be unphased) by this development, she finds a way [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
This is really more about the paid online service that comes with the Xbox and specifically, how it works with one game.
Specifically, in this case, Borderlands.
In order to start a multiplayer game of Borderlands on the PC. I had to remember my GameSpy account. And that was a pain. Then there was something that I [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I did enjoy Diablo and Diablo II. I think I enjoyed them to the point where I actually wore out a mouse from clicking, which was probably the worst part of the Diablo titles.
On the other hand, I picked up Torchlight which is basically Diablo, right down to the Soundtrack, much more streamlined, and not [...]