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Hey everyone. I just thought Id let all you Steam users out

Hey everyone. I just thought I'd let all you Steam users out there know that we've started an official Steam group for the site. Head over and sign up.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/CheerfulGhost

This game is so cool. It may look easy but once rush hour

This game is so cool. It may look easy but once rush hour comes the ships try to crash into each other. My high score is 35, but I will keep working on it.

Tungsten wrote on 05/06/2012 at 05:20am

Is it like Flight Control?

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/06/2012 at 05:20am

It's a fun game. So far my high score is 51 cargo drops. So frantic later on!

Talky Post Author wrote on 05/06/2012 at 05:22am

Jdodson says yes it is like flight control

Tungsten wrote on 05/06/2012 at 03:33pm

It's funny: I can fly around a battlefied at 200km/s, shooting people out of the air whilst keeping track of my enemies, my team's flag, and my ammo, but guiding boats/planes into a harbor/airport is too much for me.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/06/2012 at 07:42pm

I agree, its so hard. I know a guy who claims he got to the 70's. WHO IS THIS JEDI?

Talky Post Author wrote on 05/10/2012 at 05:33am

I got up to 96 today! It was stressful n awesome. No I did not undo a crash to get it either.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/10/2012 at 06:10am

Bows.

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Elder Scrolls MMO Details (not completely sure how reliable

Elder Scrolls MMO Details (not completely sure how reliable this is, but it's been linked to on some major sites).

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472749

Screenshots: http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2012/05/elder-scrolls-online.html

Honestly... disappointed. This looks like every other MMO we've ever seen, which isn't all bad, but it certainly isn't going to pull me in.

Fantasy Flight is releasing more details on the new Descent:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/descent-second-ed/news/preview-1/box.png

Fantasy Flight is releasing more details on the new Descent: Journeys in the Dark second edition printing. Had to share some details with all yall because they were pretty interesting. As I wrote earlier about the new Descent, they are allowing the Overlord player a bit more to work with than it had previously. One such element is that the Overlord has some light deck building and classes available.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3240

Fantasy Flight also removed the cork on one playable hero as well.

"A master of the bow and fearless defender of nature, Jain Fairwood stands ready to oppose the vile machinations of the overlord alongside her fellow... Read All

Well, Ive got to bitch for a second. The stupid

Well, I've got to bitch for a second. The stupid pre-downloader for this game is driving me nuts. I run it for like 5 minutes, and it just closes: no error, no exception, no sign that anything went wrong except that it just gone.

You can pick up where you left off, but I've been downloading it as much as I've been able to (I don't have the best bandwidth), and I'm just over 60% done. That is after over a week.

I've tried Admin mode, Safe mode, no anti-virus. I've got a ticket in with Blizzard, but... eh... not really sure what to expect there.

Okay. A little bit of seething and I feel better... okay that's not true: I'm pissed.

Blizzard! Diablo or GTFO!

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/05/2012 at 04:33pm

Have you had problems with this game or others too? What version of Windows? Vista? Frustrating either direction. Recently installed 7 and it works really well. Old hardware?

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 05/05/2012 at 08:56pm

windows 7, newer hardware, never had a problem before with anything, let alone a downloader. If it was the game itself, it would be a little easier to swallow... but the downloader? I've downloaded millions of things, but Blizzard has to make it complicated.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/05/2012 at 08:57pm

Yeah, sounds like you are doing everything right then. Totally sucks, hope it all works by the 15th.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 05/06/2012 at 03:33pm

Up to 4.78GB. Just 2.82GB to go before the 15th.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/06/2012 at 07:43pm

Awesome, upgrade from your 28.8 soon! :)

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 05/06/2012 at 08:09pm

I'm still running through AOL Online. I've got to reinstall though... where's that floppy disk...

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/08/2012 at 12:56am

Hmmm sort of formatted over all mine.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 05/08/2012 at 01:25am

Oh man, I used to use to use those for everything. I had cases full of AOL diskettes reappropriated to hold 1/40th of a rar file for some game that I *borrowed* from a friend.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/08/2012 at 02:13am

Totally. As you were talking about AOL the first thing I was reminded of was the disks I formatted and put Wolf 3D and Doom on. I had more disks than HD back then and the best way to get them was AOL. Well certainly the cheapest.

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so realistic to the MMA sport

I got this game for Christmas and I finally convinced some

I got this game for Christmas and I finally convinced some people to sit down and play with me. (Side note: It should really not be that hard to convince people to try something new!)

This game is awesome! We had so much fun even though it was our first time playing and we lost pretty bad lol.

The premise of the game is that four diseases have broken out in different parts of the world and the players work cooperatively to treat the diseases and eventually find the cures for them. On the players turn they have 4 actions they can spend either moving around the map or treating cities that have been infected. Your objective is to discover all four cures before one of the... Read All I got this game for Christmas and I finally convinced some people to sit down and play with me. (Side note: It should really not be that hard to convince people to try something new!)

This game is awesome! We had so much fun even though it was our first time playing and we lost pretty bad lol.

The premise of the game is that four diseases have broken out in different parts of the world and the players work cooperatively to treat the diseases and eventually find the cures for them. On the players turn they have 4 actions they can spend either moving around the map or treating cities that have been infected. Your objective is to discover all four cures before one of the various losing conditions are met. Each player is also randomly dealt a special "role" for the game, which grants them a special ability or trait. For example: you need 5 cards of the same color to discover a cure, but the Scientist only needs 4.

After a player has spent all their actions and drawn their player cards, they have to take on the role of the Infecter before the next players turn. First you draw a number of infection cards based on the current infection rate, which increases as the game goes on. Each card drawn adds one disease marker to that city. If a city already has 3 markers on it then an "Outbreak" occurs and that disease now spreads to all the surrounding cities. This is where things get crazy, because this can set off chain reactions with the surrounding cities if they also have three disease markers. This is how we lost our first game. :)

Hidden in the player cards are a certain number of Epidemic cards (you choose how many to put in there depending on how difficult you want the game to be). When one of these cards are pulled it increases the infection rate and also immediately places 3 disease markers on a city. You then have to shuffle the infect card discard pile and place them back on top of the deck.

It's game over if one of the following occurs: You need to place a disease markers but are out of that color, you have no more player cards in the deck, or if a total of 8 outbreaks have occurred.

Once a disease is cured, it becomes easier to remove markers from the board. If a disease is cured and you successfully remove all the markers of that color, the disease is eradicated and you no longer have to place any markers of that color on the board.

What originally got me interested in this game is the cooperative nature of the game. Either all players win or all players loose and it really does take a lot of coordination among the players to keep the various diseases in check while trying to find cures. All the different roles the players can be assigned work very well with each other and create a sort of synergy with the players if used right.

The games seems more complicated than it really is. No one in my group had ever played this before but we all picked it up pretty quick. All in all we had an awesome time playing this game. It's very intense and things spiral out of control very quick, but in a good way. :) I would highly recommend this to pretty much anyone who likes board games, but especially someone who wants a very different type of board game. I give it a big two thumbs up! d (^.^) b

Travis Admin wrote on 05/04/2012 at 12:54pm

I have only ever played the flash games based on this board game, where you try to infect the world. Madagascar is such a troll.

But this game sounds amazing! How many players does it require? That's always the hardest thing for me, finding enough people to play some of these amazing games. My wife and I usually settle on Trivial Pursuit, since you can do that easily with two.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/04/2012 at 02:37pm

Heard great things about Pandemic for a while now. I think I'll pick it up in the future. I dig co-op board games. I've a few co-op dungeon crawlers now and they are wicked fun!

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 05/04/2012 at 06:03pm

I've heard several people mention a flash game called Pandemic. Are they related or do they just share the same name? The game is for 2-4 players. However, there are 5 "role" cards for the players, so I don't see why you couldn't add a 5th player if you have the people. So far I've played two games and both times we had four people, (we won the second game but just barely!)

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/05/2012 at 04:32pm

http://www.gamingdelight.com/games/pandemic.php

Maybe its loosely based on the Board Game?

Travis Admin wrote on 05/06/2012 at 05:33pm

It is. It only takes the infection parts, not preventing them. You just try to take out the world with your virus/bacteria/parasite/whatever.

Madagascar is a bitch to infect. So much that a meme was created. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/06/2012 at 07:44pm

SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING! Funny.

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The latest Indie Royale dropped today and has some

The latest Indie Royale dropped today and has some interesting titles.

http://www.indieroyale.com/

It has:
* Dungeon Defenders (I've been meaning to try)
* Containment: The Zombie Puzzler (looks like an interesting puzzle game)
* Data Jammers: Fast Forward (very stylized racer)
* Brainpipe - A Plunge to Unhumanity (ambient, visual treat action game)
* Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space (hybrid science fiction space adventure and strategy game)

Well, it has happened. Bethesda has announced the Elder

Well, it has happened. Bethesda has announced the Elder Scrolls MMO.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/03/elder-scrolls-online-announced-an-mmo-set-in-the-world-of-skyrim/

It has been rumored for months (years?) now, but we finally have confirmation.

It will be set 1000 years before the events of Skyrim, where Molag Bal is attempting to swallow up Tamriel into his plane of Oblivion. Looks interesting so far.

The perfect bathroom game for iphone. Seriously. Play for 1

The perfect bathroom game for iphone. Seriously. Play for 1 minute or 15. Simple puzzles get complex, with a cute interface.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/03/2012 at 08:40pm

Downloading it now! Thanks for the tip.

Tungsten wrote on 05/04/2012 at 01:09am

I admit, I do love that game. I used to play 3 rounds or so a day. It's one of the few games where I really like the free to play restriction because it kicks you off after 150 turns. Without that restriction I could play for hours.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/04/2012 at 01:42am

I tried a few rounds of it and didn't entirely get the rules but it was fun. Ill play more tonight and try and learn it entirely, its a really cool concept from what of the rules I do understand after one play through.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/04/2012 at 05:30am

Wow, I just sunk an hour into this and it was awesome. Such a unique kind of puzzle game. Fantastic, thanks for the recommend!

Tungsten wrote on 05/04/2012 at 10:33am

It's tetris meets sim-city. With bears.

Talky wrote on 05/04/2012 at 03:10pm

Have me interested. I will have to have Jon download it for me.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/04/2012 at 03:54pm

Yeah, its great I will.

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