Started the day out with a breakfast burrito from my freezer. Then I went to my usual Starbucks and got a grande iced coffee with mocha and two rivet shakers from Philly Pretzel Factory right next door. Then I made my way to Mark's place to play video games and watch the football game.

My two favorite NFL football teams won in amazing games today and it was about a hundred times more fun to watch than this year's Superbowl. 

Welcome to this week's new post fellow people of Pixlbit! Just going to jump straight to pickups. I only picked up two games recently. The first one I will discuss is Forza Horizon 2. At the time of this game's release, I had to choose between this or Shadow of Mordor. I chose Mordor because I love the LoTR. I knew I was going to get Forza eventually so few days ago I decided to get it. I wanted to get the regular edition because I didn't care much about the DLC. My money could be more useful somewhere else.

Well I bought a lot of digital stuff from Humble, GOG and Steam so here ya go:

Now before I go into my scariest game pick yes I agree Residence Evil the original when I was exploring and those damn dobermans jumped through the hallway window I like to crap myself ha ha!! Great game moment I will never forget.

it was a pretty standard 3rd person shooter, with a few nods to certain events in the series, I suppose.  The only other RE games I've played are RE 2 and RE 5, and I've never made it more than a few steps in RE 2...I can't seem to wrap my head around the controls, and it doesn't translate well to my PSP.

Here's what I've got in my trades currently. The Ship is a freebie and appears to come with a second copy for you to gift.

My wife has been pregnant for a while now (months and months!) but her due date arrived and still no baby. So we had an induction scheduled for Friday, October 10 (yesterday as of this writing). But Thursday morning, right after I finished my shower before work, her water broke. I love clear signs like that lol. So we headed to the hospital and literally an hour later she gave birth to our second son. Thing is, it went so fast that she didn't have time to get an epidural AND my son weighed 9 lbs 1.5 oz and was 20 inches. That's a big baby to push out! But mommy and baby were both healthy and complicaton-free, so we're not going to complain (too much).

Alex recently typed up a great piece about Limbo up a game that is not traditionally thought of as horror, but is effective in giving that feeling you get from horror games. Which got me thinking over which games scared me that no one really praises for their horror elements. Well, it turns out my (as of a month ago) favorite game does that very well, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2. Yeah, not that much of a change from my old favorite, but after playing the restored version, I....you know what, that deserves its own review. 

So with my interest in board games steadily increases, I’ve been drawn to the idea of crafting my own board game to play with friends and possibly to produce should it prove entertaining/smart enough.  This is by no means a quick thing to do and will go through the normal process that most games go through: Thematic Inception à Setting Mechanics à Prototype à Playtest

What's up Pixlbit?

This week I came up with a new way to select games to play. I pick a random genre on allgame.com using random.org to get a number from 1 to 15, and then sort the games by rating and look down the list until I see one I want to play. I generated an 8, which means the Racing genre and saw Diddy Kong Racing (DKR) for N64 near the top of the list. I have this game still in its box for N64 and haven't played it in ages. So I packed up my N64 and the game to take with me when I go to my friend Mark's place on Sunday.

Greetings and welcome my Pixlbit peeps. I hope that the week was good to you and now you are all ready to celebrate the weekend! If you have anything really fun planned, have a safe weekend. My goal this weekend is simple, I need to find the power cable and the TV cables. I have that swanky Dreamcast controller and I want to spend a day virtual fishing. So Pixlbit it is Friday, my Aztecs are playing on Friday…AGAIN (I think this is the MWC’s way of saying hey you tried to leave so FU. A couple of days ago they sent out an announcement that 10, TEN calls were bad by the refs, including an obvious punt block that replay saw, the ESPN talking heads saw, but the zebras on the field didn’t.) Anyways sit back for another edition of Quick Hits with Chris

 Hey guys, just a quick update on whats going down, Blake-wise. Firstly, I quit Plus10Damage. It sucks, but I couldn't get out as much material as they needed at that point, and I felt bad that awesome writers like David, Jamison, Josh, Arron, and our very own Joe Step - as well as awesome guys like Steve and Matt who were mostly paying for the site upkeep themselves - were slaving their asses off making the site awesome and I was producing like an article a month. For an upcoming site, they need regularity, and at this point I can't offer it. Hopefully I'll be back next year sometime when things are going better for me schedule wise, but until then I think this is best.

I've been in a gaming slump all summer, and most of the spring, as well. I think I might have played a little Pinball Arcade, but that was pretty much it. My poor consoles sat, neglected and collecting dust, until last weekend. I was stuck at home due to mechanical failure of my normally (until this year) reliable 1999 Subaru Outback. I was also very bummed out about this because it happened on my way to my gramma's 90^th birthday party, which I'd made them change the date for, by the way. As I looked around my small living space, I realized that the dust bunnies were taking over. I hauled out the vacuum cleaner and went to town, until I got to the TV stand. Once I got the TV, stand, and consoles clean, that was the end of the cleaning spree.

http://www.backloggery.com/leeradical45                                                                  So a long while back I did the gamer face pics so now lets see your game collection & your system set up. =-D

It's been about a month since I've posted. I'm gonna blame my starting school for most of that, though it's probably more me just being lazy.

So, looks like my workplace stopped blocking game sites. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but its been like this for about a week. Might as well take the opportunity to post a quick blog.