Play Together Stay Together Video Games

Mills & Boon & Video Games

Mills & Boon have been producing romance novels for over a hundred years. Their popularity is without question and they have every right to enjoy this by entertaining, what I would guess, must be millions of people by now.  I’ve never read one. I probably never will. But I don’t deny that they have their place in the world. I’m happy for them to be on sale in bookshops, and if I saw someone reading…

Continue reading

Play Together Stay Together Video Games

Back to the Border

Borderlands is a game we really got into on first release, quickly leveling up our Siren (Linda) and Soldier (Steven) in our first playthrough of the story, then starting over to hit Level 50, the original level cap. Then the DLC came out, we lapped up Dr Ned and then waited for the next installment. Along came Mad Moxxi and disaster struck.. the save file for my Level 50 Soldier corrupted. For a while this…

Continue reading

Play Together Stay Together Video Games

Pipelines

We’ve not been posting much to this blog for a while, but we’re set to change all that. After this weekend our lives should become far more “back to normal” after a quite busy year in the real world. To that end we’re lining up some new reports on the games we’ve been playing together during this period which are:   Fable III Lego Pirates of the Caribbean Borderlands (Again) Portal 2 I might even…

Continue reading

Play Together Stay Together Video Games

My E3

I was just responding to a post by Leon Cox over on GamerDork, which is worth a read but my response ended up becoming more a summing up of E3 2011 for me, so thought I would save a copy here also: I think a lot of people misunderstand what E3 is about. It’s about selling products same as everything these companies do. Why did MS cram their presentation with Kinect products? Because the potential sales…

Continue reading

Play Together Stay Together Video Games

I clearly don’t belong in the gaming community.

I awake in as much bewilderment as I went to bed with. All around me my friends are claiming Nintendo have stolen the show, they are back. Thank Microsoft and Sony showed nothing whilst Nintendo blew them away with their announcement.  Sorry, did I sleep through the Nintendo stuff? All I saw was a new controller and them some hot air about a new console. A Console they didn’t even think to show in close up. With…

Continue reading