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On Friday we took the evening off from painting to kick back and relax a little. About half an hour before bed time I bought LIMBO from Steam. In terms of money (€9.99) it was a bargain, in terms of sleep it was a very bad move.

LIMBO is the brainchild of Arnt Jensen, who conceived the game around 2004. It was not released until July 21, 2010, however, then as an exclusive title on Xbox Live Marketplace. It only recently made its way to the PS3 and PC platforms. In the game you play a nameless boy who has entered Limbo in search for his missing sister. You start the game in a forest, and as you solve the various puzzles, you move into a creepy urban setting where the puzzles get tougher, but not impossible. I’m really not that good at puzzle games, but only found myself stuck once.

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A couple of days I go I read a review of Street Cleaning Simulator. This might sound like the definition of slowly getting bored to death for most of you, but for some reason I find this kind of games surprisingly appealing. I’ve spent countless hours flying virtual passengers around the globe, hauling virtual cargo through the great Australian outback and mining tons upon tons of very virtual ore in outer space.

I’m suspecting that it’s the non-challenge about it all that I like. After a long week of facing challenge after challenge at work, it’s great to kick back and do something that doesn’t require any brain activity whatsoever. So, inspired by the Street Cleaning Simulator review, I decided to try out another game by the same publisher; Garbage Truck Simulator 20111).

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About six hours ago I started my two weeks summer vacation. What to do, what to do? Since Steam has one of their damn sales at the moment, you’d probably think I’d hoard cheap, high quality games, stock up on frozen pizza and Burn energy drinks, lock the door and stay inside for two weeks.

But, no. I’ve got a few titles, like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but I won’t have the time to play them much. I’m just behaving like women do when it’s a shoe sale going on; buying the games because they are too cheap to pass and I know that I will “have the time to play them soon”. No, instead of playing computer games1), Anniken and I are spending one week somewhere hot with her family and then another week cleaning and painting our old apartment. Good times! Continue reading "14 Days of Summer." →

This weekend Steam had a 50% sale on everything The Sim 3. Anniken has sometimes mentioned that she used to play the original The Sims every now and I played it quite a bit myself way back then when I studied in Grimstad. Terje was the undisputed The Sims master, though, but he will try to convince you otherwise. Anyway. I bought Sim 3 at a low-low price and inspired by the Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3 article posted on Cracked.com, I decided to make my own freak of nature and see how he’d manage in a digital fantasy world.

With further ado, say hello to Tom Cruise. Continue reading "Tom Cruise." →

Yeah, that’s right. Five years. That’s how long it took Kazunori Yamauchi to get Grand Turismo 5 released. After numerous delays and even Grand Turismo 5 Prologue to calm the fans down, GT5 was finally let out into the wild today. The game is mostly about circuit racing, and while I’m not that into circuit racing – sans Formula 1, of course – I bought the game on a whim today on my way home from work.

Back home I started the optional 8GB install, made myself some pancakes and hooked up the Logitech G25 racing wheel. Using the racing wheel takes a bit of livingroom refurnishing, but since Anniken was at the cat sanctuary today I had the whole apartment for myself. Or, she was supposed to be at the sanctuary, but came home when I was about half way through the install and my pancakes.

But I still managed to cram in almost two hours of racing – Anniken even tried a few laps. Continue reading "Five Years." →

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