Resident Evil 5 Steam Giveaway

I have a Steam copy of Resident Evil 5 for the Personal Computer, valued at $19.99, to give away to one lucky reader! Though this game lacks the scare factor of the earlier series, it still contains a cheesy story for you to enjoy and horrific monstrosities for you to destroy! Just get ready to be frustrated at your computer-controlled partner if you choose to go at it alone at the highest difficulty - though it is possible to get to the end this way because I have done that myself. The rule, as always, is simple. Just make sure that you "Join this site" via the Google Friend Connect located on the right hand side of the page and then add a comment expressing your interest to win on this very article. You have until 8 AM PST on Monday, 03/18/2013 to do this and the randomly selected winner will be announced shortly after. Good luck! Please be aware that you will need a Steam account to be able to claim the game if you win. Oh by the way, if you just happen to be looking for a DOTA 2 early access key, valued at a whopping $29.99, click here for I have one key left to give out.

Now you too can be a man with monstrous bulging muscles without abusing steroids.

Wii Fit: The Revenge?

I have been bad when it comes to exercising these days and I am afraid that I am gaining some weight again. You know what that means... It's time to start playing Yourself!Fitness on the X-Box again! Not! No, not this time. After a long period of being away from a healthy physical routine, it is usually very hard for me to get into the routine so I am going to take a bit of a different approach this time. Sure, Yourself!Fitness really works but it is also quite challenging. So I am going to ease myself into things by playing Wii Fit first. Yes... Wii Fit. That really horrible exercise program can be beneficial in this situation I think. We shall see when I start my Wii Fit routine soon...

Hidden in shame... Will it repent for its sins?

Sorry, Even That's Valved

If there was a game that I would be interested in getting from the Windows 8 Store ever since my recent operating system upgrade, it would be one of the Angry Birds games. But before I was even given a chance to fulfill that desire, Valve came to the rescue by launching Angry Birds Space on Steam today! Wow... You see the difference there, Microsoft? Valve offers a lot of casual games mixed in with the hardcore gaming releases while your focus is just those tiny tablet apps. Keep learning Microsoft... Keep learning. Not too late though. Don't release the next X-Box. Just focus on the PC. You know it's good for you.

No game is safe from being released on Steam.

I'll take Steam achievements over LIVE anytime.

Is That You, Karma?

I love playing as a support in League of Legends for the Personal Computer. Soraka is always my number one favorite. The second? That would be Janna and the third? It's Karma baby! Karma before even Leona! What I love the most about Karma is her harass potential with her Spirit Bond ability. Just think about it... It's a 5 seconds slow to enemies and haste to allies. That's 5 seconds of unrelenting, pure abuse. I love maxing Spirit Bond first and foremost for a really fun time. Building her tanky allows her to be all over the opponent's face, causing major disturbances as you can see from one of my recorded plays. Karma has always been a fun champion for me but apparently, Riot Games hasn't been happy with her and they are going to make major adjustments to her gameplay, lore, and character model! You can check out the detailed announcement by clicking here. I am very excited about this. I personally never have a complaint about her play style because I am able to make her work just fine but the improved visual design is quite delightful! Oh, and those who have unlocked Karma before this rework is launched will also get a free skin? What a good karma eh?

The new Karma... Now looking rather god-like.

January 2013 Gaming Analysis

The results shown below are of course based on the combined data from the Daily Game Log which should provide a clear indication of a game's usage frequency. Bear in mind that even if a game is played twice or more during a particular day, it would still register as 1 in the Day Count column below. In a sense, "merits" are given based on how often a particular game can make me play it again throughout the entire period of the  month on a daily basis. A game that makes a gamer play it over and over again or at least spend a lot of time with it... Isn't that what we mostly want from a great game? I don't think it's really fair to count all the way down to the number of hours played since some games only require a short amount of time to properly serve their purposes. 

OVERALL BREAKDOWN:

Total Games Played: 41

It's a new year yet some things remain the same. League of Legends on the Personal Computer was still the most played game for yet another month. The one thing that is new in regards to this game is that I have been playing almost the one lane Proving Grounds map almost exclusively because it is just ridiculously fun. I have posted plenty of videos of my matches on this map both on my YouTube and twitch.tv channel. I really hope that Riot Games would place this map in the normal queue because to play this map, you have to join or open a custom game room and there is a limit to how much Influence Points you can get from custom matches for the day.

Jetpack Joyride took the number two spot and was played across multiple platforms. Definitely a great choice of game to play while away from the Game Room. I was driving the spouse to a lot of appointments that month and that was why the game got a lot of play time. Tied at second place is Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for the PC. The more I played the game, the more fun it got but one thing was annoying about the game to me: The game is meant to be played with the controller but doing so would limit access to the number of active abilities you can trigger. Using a keyboard and mouse remedies this with all the abilities being mapped to the number keys but they should have found a way to make the same accessible on the controller.

This Month's Inductees:

Total Inductions: 20