Marcus Mattsson » Gaming

Mini-review of Sniper: Ghost Warrior

Marcus — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:24:14 +0000

I rarely write about games in here, but when I do it’s usually because I’ve been annoyed by one, and that is also the case today. I got interested in this game after watching the E3 walkthrough video, so I (…)

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My First Foray into Strategy Board Games

Marcus — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:00:33 +0000

There’s something very fascinating about board games that successfully envelop you in fictional universes in a way that’s usually reserved to computer games and movies. Twilight Imperium is the first big strategy board game I’ve tried, and it did just (…)

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Army of Two is a turd

Marcus — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:18:56 +0000

Army of Two is a third-person shooter focusing on cooperative strategies, which is what kind of peaked my interest. Now I’ve been playing the co-op campaign with my roommate for about six hours, and I have no idea how we (…)

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Focusing and Freelancing

Marcus — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:51:42 +0000

I’m going to a focus group at Danish video game company IO Interactive, this wednesday. My friend Simon works there, as a game tester, and he forwarded a mail about it. It’s gonna take 2-3 hours, and I think it’ll (…)

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Left 4 Dead Versus Gameplay Tips

Marcus — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:36:54 +0000

I’m highly addicted to Valve’s latest hit, Left 4 Dead, but instead of writing what I think about the game, I thought about describing some things me and my friends have found to work out very nice when playing Versus. (…)

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My Xbox is back

Marcus — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:43 +0000

With a new and improved BENQ DVD drive even.

My Xbox has been fixed

Marcus — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:09:35 +0000

… or replaced, hopefully the last. This is kind of surprising, I sent it a week ago and it’s already done now. I hope this is a sign that they just replaced it with a new model. Either way, I (…)

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IT FUCKING HAPPENED AGAIN!

Marcus — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:03:58 +0000

I haven’t played Xbox very much in a while, but now Fallout 3 and Mirror’s Edge are finally out. Today when I turned on my Xbox this is what happened: I JUST BOUGHT MIRROR’S EDGE YESTERDAY FOR FUCKS SAKE! This (…)

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Fallout 3: Hail to the king, baby!

Marcus — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:15 +0000

I finally bought the Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3 today, and in the old games I always had a hard time consistently choosing skills, perks, dialogue options, etc. My characters always came out kind of neutral, never really unique, (…)

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CoD: World at War Beta

Marcus — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:09:08 +0000

Because I’ve been playing an extreme amount of Call of Duty 4, online, Activision has decided to let me into the multiplayer beta of the sequel, Call of Duty: World at War (WaW). Yay for respecting your geeky customers! Anyway, (…)

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