Pax East 2013 Statuary

Posted on April 5, 2013 by berial

I present my photo’s of Pax East 2013′s Statuary in no particular order:

: I liked the model but missed the name of the game. Maybe Neverwinter?

: This was definitely part of the Neverwinter booth.

: Hawken was playing in several booths but their official one had a really nice statue. Photo taken from the walkway above the floor.

: Hawken photo taken from the walkway above the floor. Not as close a shot as the other photo.

: Hawken photo taken from behind the statue on the floor.

: Splinter Cell. It’s iconic but I’ve never played it and couldn’t remember it’s name for a while.

: This huge set was in the lobby as you entered the building. From right.

: This huge set was in the lobby as you entered the building. From Left

: I tried twice but couldn’t get a good photo of this one. The glass case just didn’t mesh well with all the lights on the floor.

: I tried twice but couldn’t get a good photo of this one. The glass case just didn’t mesh well with all the lights on the floor.

: This was a very detailed very impressive statue but I have NO IDEA what game it’s for.

Had a blast at Pax East 2013 and the photo’s never do it justice because I spend so much of my time DOING things instead of taking photo’s of the things I’m doing. Such is life.

If you get the chance, and you enjoy any sort of gaming, I really suggest you check out one of the many Pax out there. Worth it. And you CAN do everything(except the panels/discussions) in one day if you stay focused.

So I went to Pax East again this year

Posted on April 5, 2013 by berial

AND HAD A HELL OF A FUN TIME!

Though I had a 3 day pass I really only spent one day at Pax. I spent the rest doing EXACTLY what I wanted. Hanging out with my friends, playing games, drinking beer, eating out(and in!) and generally just enjoying spending time with people I really enjoy spending time with.

Thanks again for having me Chris and Rachel!

Now for the photos:

: We played a lot of the games pictured, AND we emulated the cat and lay around the house a lot! LOVED IT!

: The cool feature of Lowell is that it’s kept its canals from it’s textile mill days.

: The cosplayers were well represented again this year.

: TF cosplay is always popular.

: Blizzard revealed it’s new Hearthstone game. Neat but not overly impressive.

: PopCap booth. Good to see them there. Barely visible on the right, was the hammer/bell carnival device they were letting people try out.

: This gives you an idea about how crowded the whole thing is. This is just the board/card game area. And not all of it!

: Just to give you an idea of the size of the place without people.

: Just to give you an idea of the size of the place without people.

: This is around 1/5 of the video game side of Pax. They leave the board/card game area open till 2 AM.

: Another 5th of the video game area. The divider between this and the board games is that wall on the left. It wasn’t always there.

: Even though it’s in the video game area and gets closed around 6-7 this is a selection of board/card game sellers with some indy/small video game booths.

: The last 5th of the video games area.

I’ll make a separate post about all the statues/models used at Pax East 2013. I’m always blown away by the work the game manufacturers put into their booths and their statues always impress.

HOLY SPIT! How much does something like this cost?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by berial

If someone bought this for me…I think I’d have to ‘do things’ for them.

To awesome not to share

Posted on October 8, 2012 by berial

via Chris Lieb and Balloon-Juice

Watch the whole thing.

The Ohio State University Marching Band

Halftime Show 10-6-12

Celebrate Video Games

Today in gaming

Posted on June 11, 2012 by berial

Just not sure the world is ready for this (or ever will be).

Apparently Major League Gaming and CBS are thinking about putting something together. Nobody is saying much, but I think MLG’s biggest draw is StarCraft, with much smaller audiences for various FPS’es and games like League of Legends. Not sure how successful a show they could put on to get, or keep, CBS interested. Still I’ve heard of some pretty stupid ideas for reality TV and a game show/sports event/video game hybrid may work. Not gonna hold my breath though.

In personal gaming news, I must say I kinda hate Civ 5′s choice to just let the AI cheat instead of making it smarter. I really am not a very good Civ player. I usually just wanna play to see the civilization I’m playing, grow and not think too hard. This is one of the very few games I play, where I not only START playing on the easiest game mode, but I USUALLY play pretty low on the difficulty scale. I play this way because I’m NOT interested in squeezing the very last morsel of growth/production/units from the game EVERY damn turn. But it’s also because the Civ games have always had pretty stupid AI and they make the game ‘harder’ by letting the computer cheat. Even if you have the very best strategy for your starting location, you simply will NOT out science, out produce, or out grow the AI. The game will have the computer DOZENS of years worth of science ahead of you pretty damn quickly. My last game I was playing on the third setting and by the time I had civil war era troops one of the AI’s was hitting me with artillery, tanks and submarines. AND what really made the game frustrating was that it put me between two warmongering states. Russia on one side of me, Egypt on the other. JUST as I would start really pushing one of the AI’s back and taking their cities the other would declare war on me out of the blue and I’d have to pull back to fight the new batch of units. Just.not.fun.

Still, I enjoy Civ 5 on the easier levels enough that it’s seriously cutting into my Tribes Ascend time. I bet I haven’t put more than 3 hours into Tribes in the last week and a half.

Finally, it’s about time for me to build a new gaming rig. Seems every time I build one it gets cheaper than the last(me likey!). I’m hoping that stays true. Last time around I bought a Dell, but I think I’ll build again this time. I was just never satisfied with the Dell. The components were good enough but the box itself was cheap and over bearing. Not to mention WAY WAY TOO BIG!

So I leave you with a question dear reader. I build my computers to get the best ‘bang for the buck’ gaming box. What was the cost of your last gaming box and did you build it?

Hi-Rez should hire these guys

Posted on May 18, 2012 by berial

Looking over some YouTube videos various people have made for Tribes Ascend and I came across the user ‘uuiz’. I don’t know who Hi-Rez has making their teaser and intro video’s but these guys would make me want to play more than the ‘official’ ones.

Check’em out:

Also I thought this one was pretty funny though it’s from a different guy:

PS: For those not familiar with the term a ‘llama grab’ is someone grabbing the flag going slow preventing an actual good (and fast) capper from getting the flag. Llama grabs usually end like the above.

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