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  • Knights of the Old Republic back again

    Yesterday I picked up Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on Steam for $2.50. I installed it and checked it out last night. Surprisingly enough, it worked flawlessly on Windows 7/64. The highest resolution it will support is 1600×1200, which looks pretty good.I had to use Creative ALchemy to re-enable EAX in the game,…

  • Star Trek Online Skill Cap

    My Science Officer Admiral has maxed out the level cap in Star Trek Online, which means he won’t advance in rank any more, but it also means he doesn’t earn skill points. Now if he were already maxed out in skills, that would be fine, but he’s not even close to being maxed in all…

  • Steam problems

    I take back some of the good things I said about Steam previously. I bought the Company of Heroes pack a few days ago when it was on sale for $12.50, but didn’t install it until yesterday. I had Steam download it during the day, then I tried to run it last night. It wouldn’t…

  • Star Trek Online Weekly and Daily Missions

    I’m really enjoying Star Trek Online’s Weekly and Daily missions dealing with the Deferi and the Breen. The Breen ships are quite a challenge, and they’re nearly as tough as the Borg on the ground. So far, the plot is moving slowly, but it has a lot of potential. Most of the missions can be…

  • Steam vs. Impulse

    I am a user of both Steam (http://store.steampowered.com) and Impulse (http://www.impulsedriven.com), so I thought I would compare and contrast them. It is nice that we have some competition and choice among digital game distribution for the PC, as opposed to the consoles, where the manufacturer has a lock on the services. Steam, from tremendous game maker Valve, has…

  • Evochron Legends

    Since I love the X series of open-ended space combat/trading/etc. games, I should like the Evochron series, right? Sadly, no. I have tried several of the incarnations of Evochron, including buying the latest incarnation, Evochron Legends, on Impulse. Evochron is a space game, like X3, where you start in a one-person space ship and try…

  • More on the X series games from Egosoft – Voice Acting

    So I posted a glowing article about the X series games, which I really do love and have great fun playing. But they do have faults. The most glaring fault is the voice acting. X2:The Threat had lots of voice acting and it was terrible, but (I think) done in a tongue-in-cheek style that knew…

  • X3:Terran Conflict

    The X series of games from Egosoft are some of the best space combat/building/trading games you can play. They are exciting, fun, have a plot that you can follow or ignore, and are very open ended. I started with X2:The Threat, then played X3:Reunion, and am still playing X3:Terran Conflict. In all these games, you…

  • Witcher – Another really fun game

    I thoroughly enjoyed Witcher Enhanced Edition when I played it a couple years ago. It is an RPG with seamless battles and lots of action, including fighting (fist fighting competitions), loving (sexy time!), and killing of many, many creatures and people. The plot was fine, but forgettable, but it kept the game moving. You play a…

  • Why I quit Eve Online

    Full disclosure: I changed the title of this post. I didn’t really hate Eve Online, but decided I didn’t want to play it, so I quit it. I really wanted to like Eve Online. I really did! I was about done with my free trial sometime back and was thinking about starting the paid subscription.…