November 15th, 2009 by David
Over the last few days I’ve been playing an awful lot of Torchlight. There’s nothing I can say about it that hasn’t already been said by people far more qualified than me on the subject, but I thought I’d add my voice to the discussion by saying: It’s Awesome. Here’s my character, whose name is Ivan (click to embiggen):

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October 29th, 2009 by David
So, after waiting through several delays, I finally got my hands on the L4D2 demo. I really enjoyed it. Here are my thoughts:
When the original came out, I played it to death. Every lunch hour I would hop into a game with my friends/colleagues and play as much as possible. Play dwindled after about 6-7 months.
Now that the demo of L4D2 is out, I’m in love again. What the demo does really well is show off all the little changes. It gives you a taste of the new special infected, the Uncommon Commons, a running crescendo event and a subset of the melee weapons. There are other tweaks that I loved too, like the old music reappearing with a Southern feel. Or the female Boomer model.

Oh man, that’s… That’s just nasty. I’m sorry, zombie guy, I was aiming at your head, I swear!
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Tags: demo, gaming, L4D2, Valve
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