My journey to PC gaming so far (and little PS3 talk)

In my last blog post I talked about being new to the true PC gaming scene and what difficulties I had faced. So far I have bought a couple of new games to PC one of them being Bioshock 2. This games installation was a complete disaster. When I first installed it the release date checking program didn't work and I had to do it manually. I finally got to play the game and it was fun and awesome until I pressed ESC and all went to hell. The game crashed and wouldn't start anymore. I installed it again two times but no, it wouldn't work. So I went to the source of all knowledge (and porn). The internet. It became clear there had been a lot of problems during the launch and it seemed that the game didn't work properly with Windows Live and that you had to delete the saved data containing the Windows Live information. So I did this and installed the game once again and now it worked. This is weird as I signed into the Windows Live again but now it worked without an apparent reason. So not exactly a good experience.

Second thing I want to voice aloud is the Mass Effect 2 on PS3. As I have never played the first one but I have played the second one now trough twice. I was never confused about the characters or the story because it isn't that much linked to the first one. I just took the story as any game with amnesia even though Shepard remembered everything but it made sense to think the story this way. So I see no problem with that only Mass Effect 2 is being made for the PS3.

Third thing is the PSN+ subscription. I bought it the day it was possible and got my digital LBP copy and I was truly happy. Now there has been many people saying the PSN+ isn't worth it but I disagree. There has been two awesome PS games everyone should play this far. Oddworld Abe's Oddysee and MediEvil. Both awesome and fun games. Now I realize that they are only two games but there is more. If you like good humor then the Sam & Max episodes are for you. All five episodes of Devil's playhouse are free. So far I have gotten content I actually play worth about 60 euros. that is as much as I payed for the year subscription and it has been only three months. So I'm really looking forward to see what next months content will be.

Now I realize I have talked more about PS3 than PC but there hasn't been a lot going on with PC game releases. Waiting for Two Worlds II to come out and few other titles. Next time my journey trough ME2, UC2 and AC2 as I'm about to platinium UC2 and AC2. I will think about if I'm going to write that post or will I just continue with my PC gaming journey.

Disney-branded Facebook games coming in 2012, Playdom head says

Can we all just say, “finally?” During a panel named “The Rise of Social Games” at the f8 Facebook Developers Conference in San Francisco, Disney Interactive and Playdom head John Pleasants revealed that two to four Facebook games surrounding Disney xd brands will hit Facebook in 2012. The general topic of the panel was the fact that branded social games are taking off.

Pleasants was joined on the panel by Kabam CEO Kevin Chou, EA Interactive head Barry Cottle and Zynga CBO Owen Van Natta. Facebook director of games partnerships Sean Ryan moderated the panel with the preface that branded games will take over the Facebook platform. And he might be right: EA just released The Sims Social, Zynga will soon re-brand its new Adventure World with Indiana Jones and Kabam recently announced The Godfather: Five Families.

Playdom, which Disney acquired in July 2010 for a whopping $740 million, is ahead of the pack with two branded games on Facebook: ESPNU College Town and ESPN Sports Bar & Grill. Both games performed well, thanks to advertising through the ESPN TV network. While Disney owns the ESPN brand, notice how neither of those actually involve the insanely popular Disney characters we’ve come to love.

Honestly, we’re surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Consider this: Disney has its own cable TV channel through which it could, in theory, advertise whatever it wants. Pleasants didn’t get into why it’s taken this long for disney channel games to throw its cast of characters into Facebook games, but did reveal the power of the Disney name.

Gnome Town, which Playdom launched in the summer–and we enjoyed quite a bit–peaked at 530,000 daily players. But just plopping the Disney logo on top of the existing one made users more likely to spend in the game just through trust of the company’s name, according to Pleasants. “We think it’s an advantage, if you put game play first,” Pleasants said.

It’s comforting to hear this emphasized by these developers. (Kabam’s Chou shared the same sentiment.) Branded games on Facebook are OK in my book, but the last thing anyone wants to see is the genre become a branding machine.

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New Disney Game – Phineas and Ferb

Disney released a new game. Phineas and Ferb 3D online game. Klick here to read the complete review.

The new game is available at the Disney XD discovery channel. Get ahead of the game before its officially released next week!

Disney is introducing the brand new DisneyXD game. Phineas and Ferb in: The Transport inators of Doooom!

Doofenschmitz is up to his old tricks again, and who has gone missing? Phineas! Help Ferb find his brother and try to help Agent P thwarth Doofenschmitz evil plans!

Check out this new exciting Disney XD online game before all others do at the Disney Cartoon network games website!

Check out Disney’s cartoon network to find a lot of amazing games and news. Disney offers a lot of cartoon games on their site. So head over to the Disney XD site and play the new Phineas and Ferb – The Transport-inators of Doooom! game!

Have Fun!