I may have misunderstood something when trying to preorder godfather 2 from the EA store, but as I read it I only have acces to the game for 1 year if I buy their digital copy ? even though Im paying for a full price game and they are saving on packaging, handling and distribution since its just data on a stream, so basically Im just renting it for a year, at full price .... is this really so or did I misunderstand it completely, anyone else have experience with the EA store ??

I have kept my ears open for any news of this little gem being released on PC, but I havent heard a thing, does any of you know if this will be a PC release some day or if it will stay exclusive ?

Here is another Indie title, and if you have ever played any of the multiple variants of towers for flash, then you know exactly what defense grid is all about.

You build different towers with different properties to defend against hordes of incomming monsters, they walk in a predefined line, and its your task to eliminate all the incomming waves by buying and upgrading towers, and by placing them in strategic positions, the gameplay is so extremely simple.
This version however does it to the maximum, really really nice graphics, and something quite rare in indie games .... voice acting, there is a computer AI who will comment and advise you as you go along, there is a leaderboard too, but Im not sure if its working properly.
I have played the flash versions a little, but this version really is the pinacle of tower, its a little pricey at 20$, but I dont mind paying that for an indie game, if you like the tower gameplay, then you will love this version

http://defensegrid.hiddenpath.com/

Ok there is an excellent deal on steam right now, GTA san andreas/vice city/3 + max payne 1 and 2 + manhunt + midnight club for only 34.99, thats the most crazy sweet deal ever on steam

I was very pessimistic about spore as it was developed, the graphics looked like something out of viva pinata, all the procedural goodies vanished one by one, and the clincher for me was the prospect of 15 expansion packs making the total cost far too ridiculous an amount to pay for a game, but Im a gamer and Im not short on money so there was never any doubt that I was going to buy it on launch.

And so far every stage has been a great experience, you can take an amoeba and put him/her/it/fzzztlbt into space in just a few hours of gameplay, the first 4 stages compliment the space stage extremely well, in a sense those 4 stages is the biggest most elaborate character generator in any game I ever played, Oblivions was extensive, but this one reaches all the way back to the primordial soup 

Cell phase is pretty much perfect, there isnt anything to do but eat or be meat, but its a pleasant experience that can be done in as little as 5 minutes (I cant though)

Creature stage is my favorite stage, its so very simple, and so immersive, choke full of magnificent moments.

Tribal is a quick stage, not much to do here, you basically consolidate your position on the planet and become a resident, even though its a fast level, there are still some nice moments to be had, if you had one of those 250 HP creatures from the previous stage follow in your group, then it will be in your pen as a miniature.

Civilization, another very quick stage, I actually managed to lose my first hard game in civ phase, but it really is quite easy and manageable,

And then space.
Terraforming and collecting, transporting and sculpting planets, the strategy part is just complex enough to make it interesting, while still allowing for the best part, creating planets, nursing and burping them to prosperity, Im going very slow, so I dont have all the pirate and war problems everyone seem to have, in my universe they are a slight nuisance, nothing gamebreaking, maybe Im going to slow ?

All in all, taking a creature from the soup and into the cockpit of an interstellat saucer has been excellent fun, and the different creator tools that take you there are omg fantastic, I give it 9/10.

I remember the Oblivion launch, so much complaining on their forum, wah wah this and wah wah that, but it turned out most of the people complaining were either trying to play morrowind, even though the game clearly said oblivion on the box, or they went to level 33 on potion making and whined about the dynamic leveling system, I think the same is true for spore, many players are either trying to make spore play like some fantasy they have only in their minds, or they rush into deep space guns blazing, either way will leave you with a bad impression I imagine.

But when all is said and done, and Im in spore having a little fun, then there is no doubt in my mind that this is a great game

*The evolution in spore is a joke though, a complex organism swims out of a comet fragment... wtf ?, and the tools for making creatures is intelligent design, not evolution

So, my neighbor bought me a headset with bass vibration, and at first I was sceptic because I normally use very good quality senheizer headphones, and this vibration headset was dirt cheap and made of frail plastic, but he assured me I would come to appreciate them, so I went in and tested them on Bioshock and that big daddy roar/grin rumble, and the effect was truly amazing, the headset would start to buzz all around my ears and the sound of the bass itself was just unbelieveable, I later tried them with live for speed in a formula 1 car , and Im never driving without these babies again.

I very much recomend everyone to try them out, they are really cheap, if they had been expensive I would never have mentioned them, but they are ~ 34$ here in Denmark, and they enhance the PC gaming experience so much, Im not sure if this is the completely wrong forum, but I figured it was PC related.

(Not giving any company names to avoid this being advertising)

I stumbled upon this little gem a few days ago, it does not have many players, but thats to be expected considdering it just went beta, its a FPSRTS somewhat like Tremulous, Savage and Natural selection, but with insects.

There will be 3 playable races, ants, termites and alliance (odd bugs), but right now only the ants and termites are playable. The fighting is mostly melee using bites and kicks, poop, gas, and burrowing sneak attacks, but the warrior class can also spit a projectile in addition to melee attacks, and there is also a healing class wich shoot a projectile I still cant figure out.

The buildings you build are actually plants and fungus, for the ants its mostly flower themed, aloe plant have an area heal, cactus fires needles at incomming attackers, and some psychodelic flower that confuses you quite effectively, there is also a plant that grows small nuts, wich drop to the ground and speeds you for 10 secs when picked up. The termites build fungus themed "buildings", a magic mushroom that also confuses enemies, in a different but equally effective manner as the ant equivalent, a plant that looks like cabbage that can lob AE projectiles around, and a mushroom that will root attackers nearby for a few secs, they all look excellent when you are a tiny bug creeping around among them.

The maps are truly excellent, since most fighting is done in melee range, the maps can be wide open, because you cant camp anything anyway, so some maps like the backalley, or the formicarium, are like open gardens where you build the different resource plants needed for expansion and income, formicarium for instance are made of 2 large "gardens", one for each race, and a third middle sewer system connecting them, nice open maps, and then there is the deadcow map, wich basically plays out inside a dead cow, the ants enter the cow through its mouth, and the termites enter through its rectum, and all the resources are scattered inside the intestines, liver, chest cavity and so on, I love the design of that map.
And everything is in bug perspective, the trashcan in the backalley is a small mountain, the umbrella in the sandbox level is like the hand of God comming down on you from above, brilliant perspective.

There are 5 different classes with 2 more being finished, a worker, a warrior with a ranged attack, a medic, a heavy warrior, and the queen, you can spawn a queen and place her at the front, this will provide forward spawns.

So far the biggest fight I have been in was a 4v5, and that was ok, we could still get a good game going, although with a full 64 players server this game would really shine.

The MOD is still very much beta, I havent encountered any gamestopping bugs or crashes so far, its mostly unfinished animation like for the queen and termite heavy, and the classes that are still work in progress, the game is beautifull though, the scale and colours just make you wanna cry "to bee or not to bee" .... ok that was lame, sorry.

Anyway, look out for this one, as soon as it gathers momentum it is going to be a great MOD.

Insects Infestation homepage:
http://www.insectsinfestation.com/

Oh and if you decide to take a look, then do watch the 5 tutorial videos, its a nice quick rundown of the essentials like keybinds, pheromone trails, classes, buildings, everything you need to know to be a bug.