The N97 is on sale for under $450 and I’m really tempted to purchase it. Even though I just got an E71. There’s definitely no way I can justify the purchase, the nearly $300 savings is slowly sapping away at the resolve.
The N97 is on sale for under $450 and I’m really tempted to purchase it. Even though I just got an E71. There’s definitely no way I can justify the purchase, the nearly $300 savings is slowly sapping away at the resolve.
This is an announcement that will probably surprise no one following the twelve (12, that’s a dozen, over a decade) year development saga of Duke Nukem Forever.
Executive summary:Â 3DRealms is shut down, finally killing the project, although Take-Two holds the publishing rights to the “title.”
Analysis:Â One would think after ten years in development, this project would be scrapped.
Popcap has combined two of my favorite gaming past times:
And added a little bit of their own Popcap spin on the genre. They even added a bit of “card collecting” to the mix, although thankfully that’s only a limited implementation. (Because it would end me.) Essentially, you can only take a certain number of “units” into the next stage. You have to pick and choose from your seed packet collection, which gets larger the more stages you progress through.
There are zombies attacking your yard from the right hand side of the screen. Your job is to plant different kinds of. . . plants. . . that prevent them from getting to the left hand side of the screen, which is your house. They plants basically replace the towers of Tower Defense, and perform many of the same functions, such as shoot zombies, slow zombies, eat them, etc. Zombies are limited to single rows, and there are five rows. Think spreadsheet.
Essentially, I think someone with a bit more excel knowledge can probably hack some sort of PvZ action for some clandestine gaming at the office.
The graphics are incredibly cute, and it’s rockin’ the whole Saturday Morning Cartoon vibe from the designs. Certain zombies are wearing buckets over their heads. Which means they’re nigh invulnerable until the bucket is knocked off with enough damage. Other zombies are wearing traffic cones. It looks like there are about thirty different zombie types and nearly fifty plant types. Which sounds like enough depth that I wouldn’t mind the purchase price.
The end result: Plants vs. Zombies is an incredible time sink. My limited time demo came and went without me noticing so now I’m left with only one, surprisingly difficult question to answer.
Which platform to buy it for.
Update: I’m thinking Steam.
Test post to see if the wordpress mobile admin plug in works.
Update: Huzzah!
It’s always the same, the facts.
The retelling of them, not so much. A detail here and there is added or removed. Not out of deliberate editing, but for the simple reason that each retelling is different.
And so, there are a lot of “maybes.” This is a story then, about a girl who broke my heart. Maybe.
One day, when I was younger, a beautiful girl broke my heart. One of my friends, taking pity on my situation, and no doubt sick of my moping, asked me to help him DJ at a party near his house. This was when DJs actually needed people to carry discs. It was a paying gig, so I said yes.
On the way there, I rolled down the passenger side window on a lonely stretch of road alongside a valley. I took a deep breath and shouted about how she was the only one for me and that I still loved her.
I remembered the cool breeze across my face, his laughter at my defiant act, the brush whipping past us and the the smell of the desert air.
At the party, while bringing in the third milk crate of vinyl, I met a different beautiful girl that night. She wrote down her number on a post it note and gave it to me.
Later, after the party was over, along that same lonely stretch of road alongside that same valley, my friend stopped the car and looked at me expectantly.
I rolled down the window, took a deep breath, and shouted that perhaps, well, maybe, possibly. . . she wasn’t the only one for me.
Perchance.