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Games I want to play: Destroy X-Com

The game opens with a cutscene explaining the Alien Alliance’s reasons for invading Earth. It may be a resource-rich planet but the Alliance aren’t invading the planet for its resources. It’s invading to save Earth from those vicious murderous cancerous organisms, those so-called Humans.

A montage showing these Humans’ various transgressions is shown. Quick cut from a scene showing caged chickens to the shocked countenances of the Alliance representatives from Avian.

This isn’t Invasion: Earth.

This is Rescue: Earth.

That this alienitarian rescue mission, if successful, will see the Alien Alliance gain control of a resource-rich planet just begging to be exploited is completely irrelevant.

Ahem.
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Posted in Games, X-COM.


Steam’d

Good news, bad news time.

The good — no, scratch that — the great news is the X-Com games are available on Steam.

The bad — no, scratch that — the horrible news is the X-Com games aren’t available to Steam users worldwide. This is what I see when I attempt to buy the games:
Steam: X-Com: not available in your region
It’s been years since the games were first released. Why aren’t they made available to every single Steam user? I could, I suppose, pay someone to gift the games to me but I shouldn’t need to resort to that.

Valve is fond of touting the number of Steam accounts worldwide — 15 million right now — but clearly some Steam users are more privileged than others.

Good Old Games can’t launch fast enough for me.

Posted in Games.


The Thing is awesome

From The Fantastic Four # 5 (1962):
Fantastic Four issue 5: real natural

Posted in Comics.


The Thing is awesome

From The Fantastic Four # 9 (1962):
Fantastic Four issue 9: The Thing takes a taxi

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Jagged Alliance 2: business as usual

I’m delighted to report the Steam version of Jagged Alliance 2 has been updated to version 1.12 and it’s now largely free of the problems that plagued the previous Steam version. You can actually save when playing the Unfinished Business expansion now and the bug in the original campaign which made money irrelevant has been fixed.
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