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Waaay Too Much Geometry Wars
October 02, 2007

I purchased my first Xbox Live Golden Coins last night. It was quite an ordeal telling Microsoft about my credit card which ended up bringing me out to a totally different looking 1999-era Microsoft site for setting it up. Once all was said and done I was able to add 2,000 MS Bucks to my account for around $25. Not too bad since it'll buy me at least three XBLA games. I've already purchased Geometry Wars which I played obsessively last night. I hit 193,000 points but alas, Citescape was down by the time I did so that never got recorded. Bummer. Hopefully they'll be up tonight so that I can get some new XBLA games or demos.

I'll probably be settling down for some Doom tonight, since it's got a nice campaign, and then deciding between Boom Boom Rocket or maybe Sonic. Everybody loves Sonic, right? I tried getting ahold of Chris via the service last night, but he was engrossed in Halo 3. I have a feeling that in order to ever see him I will have to get ahold of a copy. I just wonder how newb-rific I will appear on teh great Halowebs.

All-in-all I'm loving the fact that the 360 actually uses the Internets to communicate with people. There's no convoluted codes to exchange with people, all of the games seem to interact in at least some way, and XBLA just plain rocks. Oh yes... the wireless 360 controller is oh so nice. Om noms.


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Geometry Wars Rocks the Socks
June 22, 2007

Steam was the most vile thing on the planet when it first came out. I'm still on the fence about it as a content-delivery platform... but without it I would have been empty handed in getting Geometry Wars, Half-Life 2: Episode One and the Lost Planet demo.

I ponied up my $2.50 or so for Geometry Wars a few nights ago and was pleasantly surprised when I popped it open. A lush, flowing environment containing... an old school shooter! Oh, how joyous it was to mash on my keyboard for almost two hours before I noticed how much time had passed. I plugged up my old PS1 Dual Shock Controller (Yay for importing illegal converters!) the other night just to see what I was missing and the game became even better.

So, for $2.50 I got a gorgeous, great controlling and incredibly interesting shooter. Thank you Steam.


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