Saturday, April 28, 2018

Caliban's War

Book two of The Expanse, titled Caliban's War, includes three main viewpoint characters in addition to Holden. Chrisjen Avasarala, a UN high up, gives insight to Earth's politics while Praxidike Meng, a botanist on Ganymede, brings in a more personal take on happenings as he tries to find his daughter who gets kidnapped at the beginning.

Friday, April 27, 2018

Q.U.B.E.: Director's Cut

Q.U.B.E.: Director's Cut is yet another Portal without portals. It had a free weekend on Steam, obviously to advertise the release of Q.U.B.E. 2 and knowing how the titles of the genre typically aren't all that long, I decided to quickly play through the game which was developed by Toxic Games and originally released in 2011.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Leviathan Wakes

The Expanse is an ongoing science fiction novel series written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck under the pen name James S. A. Corey. The authors appear to be quite productive, having released a new book every year since 2011.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Sword Coast Legends

This decade hasn't seen many takers in video games for the Dungeons & Dragons license. And the few new titles that have come out haven't been on the same level as the games of old. The 4th edition didn't inspire developers and the 5th seems to have a similar problem. Or at least that's my impression.

Monday, April 23, 2018

Planescape: Torment - Enhanced Edition

It had again been 7 years since I last played Planescape: Torment and I thought it was time for another run of the old classic. But before I got to it, Beamdog announced they were releasing an enhanced edition of the game in April (last year) and I ended up waiting for it to get cheap enough to do my playthrough in it instead.