I feel immersed in all things Mass Effect lately. Aside from playing Mass Effect 2 on the Xbox 360 and playing Mass Effect Galaxy on my iPod Touch, I’ve been reading the Mass Effect: Ascension audiobook. Author Drew Karpyshyn was the lead writer on the first Mass Effect game, is co-lead writer on Mass Effect 2, and also wrote the first Mass Effect novel, Mass Effect: Revelation. I read and reviewed that novel. How does this one stack up?
When I first got my iPod Touch, I was dumping apps onto it like crazy. Free apps, apps that made top 10 lists, just about anything. Many of those have been long since deleted. Weber’s On The Grill, however, has made the cut, and definitely falls into the category of “there’s an app for that.”
There have been talks of Warcraft audiobooks for more than a year. As I posted in November 2008, Tantor Media recorded 3 books narrated by Dick Hill, but then they were mysteriously delayed and dropped off the radar. Now Simon & Schuster is reporting that the new novel by Richard A. Knaak, World of Warcraft: Stormrage, is getting the audiobook treatment, with an eAudio version read by Richard Ferrone. Still no word on the other three, but it’s a start.
The book will be available from Simon & Schuster’s website on February 23, 2010.
Are you ready to be a Big Daddy? 2K Games is releasing Bioshock 2 next week, the long anticipated follow-up to the 2007 hit Bioshock. I was a big fan of the original Bioshock, and made it my #2 game of 2007. This time, you ARE a Big Daddy! Get into the mindset of a Big Daddy by building a paper one, complete with Little Sister (not pictured). Download it via Chamoo232’s Papercraft Archive.
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We picked up the 21003 Seattle Space Needle LEGO set when we were in Seattle, Washington last year, at the Space Needle gift store, and finally got around to building it. It’s part of the Landmark series of LEGO Architecture sets.
It’s not a terribly complicated LEGO set, being only 57 pieces. Though it says on the back of the box that it’s 8.7 inches tall, I visualized it being a bit bigger. But it was kind of fun to see how they realized the look of the Space Needle with a limited amount of pieces.
One thing that was interesting is you actually cut the long curvy leg bits down to a specific size before threading them in. I don’t recall having to cut a LEGO piece before (not that I’m an expert by any means!).
More photos of the box and the completed set below.
ZarkSeven has this cool segment on his blog called “APPraisal”. It’s his weekly…or mostly weekly…review of various iPhone/iPod touch applications. Since Zark doesn’t use Google Voice and I’m addicted to it, he asked me if I would take a look at the new Google Voice mobile site and give a review for his APPraisal segment. I’m new to this…but I love new stuff…so here goes!
I’m a huge fan of Google. I use a lot of their services as my primary way to communicate. From Gmail for my email to GTalk for my IM needs, Google just seems to “get it” when it comes to stable communication tools that just work.
One of their most amazing services is Google Voice. If you don’t know what GV is, check it out here. Google does a much better job explaining it than I do.
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People are weird.
I couldn’t help but look at the article on Gizmodo.com entitled Five Questions With Panera Bread iMac Man. I’d seen the story floating around for about a month. The Panera Bread reference in the title caught my eye, as it’s a local success story as a restaurant chain called St. Louis Bread Company that expanded nationally as Panera Bread. Then when I saw the picture, and the guy was playing World of Warcraft, I was hooked. But no one had asked him the burning question: why?
According to this week’s Gizmodo article, James the Panera Bread iMac Man says he goes there to use their internet connection because he doesn’t have one at home. He doesn’t say he can’t get one at home, so you have to wonder. He’s drinking coffee, and I assume he buys something each time he goes. He’s playing an MMO, which has a monthly subscription fee. He has a 20″ iMac, which wasn’t cheap and is fairly heavy (I know, I have one). He has an iLugger bag to carry the iMac around in, which goes for about 80 bucks. But he can’t pay for an internet connection at home??
There has to be more to this story. He can’t physically get internet at his home? He’s desperately trying to avoid his wife? He lives alone and just wants to be around people? We need 5 more questions!!
Or just chalk it up to the fact that people are weird.
I finally saw Avatar last weekend with my brother, and one of the things I kept thinking during the movie was how cool the “helicopters” were. I loved watching the rotors move and rotate. Blogger tekzo at paperhobby created a nice reproduction of the VTOL craft, and made it available for download on his site. Now he just needs to make a Navi warpaint version!
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EA has no idea what to do with their intellectual properties. Electronic Arts purchased and subsequently decimated developer Origin Systems Inc, wasting the opportunities it had with all of the IP’s that Origin developed throughout the 80s and early 90s. Then in 2008, EA gives us the awful top-down, 2D space combat game that they slapped the words Wing Commander onto to try to lure old fans of the quality 3D Wing Commander series to purchase it. For shame!
But now, they’ve done it again!
I frequently run across websites that I’d like to share. Some of them I’ve already got in my Blogrolls to the right, and others I just bookmark and revisit. I thought I’d add an infrequent addition to my regular posts called Bookmarked where I’d share a site I recently bookmarked that was interesting, entertaining or useful.
My first entry would be RainyMood.com, a website who’s sole purpose is to play 15 minutes of gentle rain sounds, looped. Great for relaxation or background white noise. This totally falls into the “why didn’t I think of that” category for me.
Thanks to Download Squad for the heads-up on this one.
