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Sometimes I download and listen to Retroresan, which is a Swedish podcast about retro games. Recently they talked about the game Disney’s Aladdin to Megadrive, and it sounded pretty fun. So I searched and found a emulator called Gens/OS that seems to work great on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit. However, it isn’t made for 64-bit OS:es, but it runs fine if you force install it. Here are the steps you have to take:

  1. Visit http://segaretro.org/Gens/GS, scroll to the bottom of the page and download the most recent version to Ubuntu.
  2. Make sure you have ia32-libs installed by typing these commands in the terminal:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
  3. Then navigate to your downloads folder in the terminal, and type this line to install Gens/GS:
    sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i gens_2.XXX_i386.deb
  4. Now the emulator should pop up under your Games category.

Here follows some links:

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Sackboy SweatbandI found a sweatband with a Sackboy on it, that looks pretty nice. Maybe I will order one. :) It costs only 4.5 Euro and can be found on Archonia.com.

Direct link:
http://www.archonia.com/mangashop/en/article/96522/little+big+planet+sweatband+-+sack+boy/

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Have you played the Mass Effect games, but missed the three novels written by Drew Karpyshyn (the writer for Mass Effect on Bioware)? Then you should really check them out, since they are really great and add much to the Mass Effect universe.

I bought my books from Play.com, which have both good prices and free shipping to many countries in Europe.

Mass Effect RevelationMass Effect: Revelation

Mass Effect AscensionMass Effect: Ascension

Mass Effect RetributionMass Effect: Retribution

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Game Dev StoryYesterday I downloaded Game Dev Story to my Android phone, and so far I have managed to play it for like 1 hour. I have to say that it’s a really fun and engaging game. The game is like an RPG where you start a game company, hire people and develope games that you later sell and make money off. The point is to make your company grow, level up your staff and so on. You really have to check it out if you own an Android phone.

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Below I have embedded 3 awesome, fresh Angry Joe videos that you must see. Enjoy! =)

Top 32 Reasons Why I Hate Fable III!

Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2011 Review

Top 10 WORST Games of 2010!

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ME2Today I finally finished playing Mass Effect 2! I actually bought it a couple of months ago and I played a lot, but then I forgot about it until now. Maybe I became a bit tired of it, since I had played through ME1 for my third time right before I started playing ME2. However, now have I finally “completed” the journey and I’m really looking forward to the last game in the trilogy.

Overall I think ME2 is an excellent game – one of the best games I have ever played. I really like the first one too, but this is even better. Bioware have removed most of the boring parts that were in ME1, for an example the vehicle levels and the looting system. They have also made a lot of improvements, like adding ammo to the weapons to make the game more actionish. The story is as always with Bioware’s games fantastic, and I must say that I really love how epic the ending is. The music in the game is also great, especially the music during the last mission and the trance music in the various clubs.

In ME3 I really hope that the choices that were made in ME2 will play a bigger role than those made in ME1 did in ME2. That was kind of a let-down, how little the choices from earlier game really mattered. Like, you had to choose between two characters who you wanted to save, while the other became killed. Then in this game (ME2) you will only meet that person at one occasion, have one talk with him/her and never see him/her again. That choice was supposed to have “great impact”. O’really. However, it was kinda fun to be recognized by people from the first game that I had helped, even if it hadn’t any impact on the story. But in ME2 you will in the end have to make, in my opinion, a great decision that feels will do a lot of difference in ME3. It was also possible to get a lot of your crew members killed, so if we don’t get a new crew again I guess that will make huge difference.

If you haven’t already played through ME2 – do it!

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In the days I read an article on the Swedish gaming news site FZ about Frank Gibeau’s, who is boss on EA, opinions about Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space. Apparently he doesn’t think neither of those two games lived up to expectations, because they didn’t have a multiplayer mode included. Still he thinks that Dead Space sold well, which it did, but yeah, that wasn’t enough.

I really can’t see how it would be a bad thing to not spend time on a mutliplayer mode that wouldn’t work in the first place. Try to imagine multiplayer in Mirror’s Edge. Would it be co-op where you with all optional paths and fast phased gameplay only would lost each other? Or why not death match? Or even better, team death match with cops against a bunch of runner? That would be awesome! (not)

No, let Dice develop a sequel to Mirror’s Edge and don’t force them to include something stupid as a multiplayer mode.

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Kinect was recently released, and I guess all of you people that will stumble upon this text are already familiar with it. I can’t say that I have read very much about it, but at least some. And I have watched some videos where it have been showed, and some gameplay videos.

I don’t believe Kinect will replace the regular controller, like they say in the advertisements. It will be a nice extra type of controller that will work in some kinds of games, like Dance Central. But then there is a flood of games that are being pumped out with Kinect support, that would be played much better with a regular controller.

Besides that there are a lot of games that works better with a regular controller. The Kinect’s performance isn’t either very good. I have heard many people and critics complain about the high response time, that really becomes a problem in fast phased games. For an example boxing games, where you have to act very fast.

Even if the Kinect works well with some types of games, I believe some of  them are totally stupid. For an example you have Kinect Sports, which is a Wii Sports clone. Why would anyone pay money for an Xbox, a Kinect and for this game to be able to throw imaginary spears and discuses in front of the TV? I would rather go out and throw real sticks.

But I guess that only the future can tell if this piece of new technology will bring us any new, fun games.

Here is a really fun review of Sonic Free Riders, by Angry Joe:

Here is another video, where Kinect Sports is reviewed by Angry Joe:

And lastly a video where he reviews the actual hardware:

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EVE Online

EVE Online

I googled after some tips for future pirates in EVE Online, and I found a really great PDF document that consists of 55 whole pages(!), describing the basics of piracy, strategies, tactics, ships and fittings. A really great guide which I really recommend!

Now I’m really eager to start with piracy, maybe with a frigate which I can afford without any problems.

Here are you able to download the guide:

Here is a thread on the official EVE Online forum about the guide:

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If you want to install EVE Online in Ubuntu, follow the steps below. :) I did it on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and it worked great.

  1. Install Wine
  2. Download the Windows-version of EVE
  3. Run the installer for EVE by right clicki the file, select Properties, open the Permissions tab and bock the Execute-box.
  4. Close the window, right click the install file and select Open with Wine…
  5. Install EVE but don’t run the game after the installation.
  6. Open a terminal window and type: “wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks”, followed by “sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 d3dx9″ to install fonts, DirectX and stuff.
  7. Close the terminal and go into Applications > Wine > Configure Wine.
  8. Go into the Graphics tab.
  9. Chose the “Emulate a virtual desktop” option.
  10. Type in a desktop size that is smaller than your screen resolution. Since my monitor’s resolution is 1680×1050, I typed in 1440×900 in the Desktop size boxes.
  11. Now, close the Wine configuration window and start EVE Online.
  12. Profit!

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