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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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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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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Foot diseases make me gag

Marcus — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:37:54 +0000

My god, it’s been a while. I’m a Bachelor student now, which makes me all kinds of awesome. Example? I completed this today. Notice the smooth edges, and the soothing colors or are you just laughing hysterically from the ingenious (…)

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An afternoon with Rock Band

Marcus — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:48:24 +0000

Yesterday, while under influence of considerable amounts of alcohol, me and my roommate, Mikkel, decided that Rock Band was just the thing we needed. Oddly enough we felt the same when we woke up this morning, so we drove to (…)

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