I actually didn't get a lot of gaming in this weekend-- but that's not wholly unusual for me of late. Somewhat ironically, the whole process of trying to land a job in game art has me pretty busy NOT actually playing them. Must work on portfolio! and all that.

But I still manage to wedge in some gaming wherever I can make it fit, and this weekend is no exception, so...

Most of my work over the weekend was caught up with my personal modding work on Sins of a Solar Empire, which of course means I played Sins several times over the course of things. I tried not to let "testing the mesh" turn into "Conquer the galaxy with my sweet new ride", but it's hard to turn things off once you've got something working, and I ended up doing a bunch of 'balance testing!' as an excuse to play for a while.

We finally scraped together enough money to pick up Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band plus two controllers, which the girl's been wanting for a while(yes, we're both gamers! It's the only real way to win domestic peace for your obsession, you know!) and so there were a couple of two-player jam sessions over the weekend.

Also managed to sneak in some Team Fortress 2 so I could enjoy the Pyro update. TF2's easy to wedge in, since it's very much a pick-up-and-play sort of game. One or two fast ten-minute(or less) rounds, then back to work. Good stuff.

And last night I took some lengthier time off of my art production obsession to roam the street of my MMO home-away-from-home in City of Heroes/Villians. I've been slacking off of that game pretty extremely for a subscription game, but then again, I HAVE been playing it off and on for four years now. Still, it's an old friend I love to come back to regularly still... at least until Champions Online comes out...

I guess that actually looks like a lot of time spent playing, but it's mostly just a reflection of a little time spend across several games since friday. The actual clocked time was sadly low. But then again, I enjoy building mod stuff so much that it may as well be play-time.

Back to building starships! Maybe I'll have a new update for the blog later today-- most of yesterday's work wasn't much to show-- All UV mapping insanity.

I have been playing Call of Duty 4 for some time now. Am addicted to the darn thing. I try looking for new servers with new maps to try out. I belong to, hat is called, a clan which is a group of people who form a group and a name and then put the letters of their clan on their online names to represent. I hang out on the clan servers often but as of late find myself wanting to play Team Death Match games since our servers are usually Free For All. I get tired of being killed by the guy behind me while I am either killing someone else or about to kill them. Team Death Match allows me to last a bit longer in the game.

I found an interesting server that plays a single map over and over 24/7. I like it cause the map allows for both sides to have equal advantage from just about any part of the map. Depending on the players on your team you can be dominating from either side of the map. Then there is the zombie mode which everyone starts as a hunter (soldier) and the system will randomely pick someone and turn them into a zombie and they then have to kill hunters and turn them till the last man standing. Great server, choice of zombies with different attacks, lots of fun.

Oh and I watched my kids play Nintendo Wii with their cousin. It's too exausting at times so I rather watch. Especially with Mario and Sonic Olympics game.

My wife's younger brother spent the weekend at our house. So I entertained him (my excuse to get some gaming time) by playing GH2 and Rockband with him on my 360.

I also spent some time on the Political Machine 2008 forums, but didn't actually get a chance to play a round of the actual game. Maybe one of these weeknights I'll be able to get on and play some multiplayer.

I have several games sitting in my stack (both PC and 360) that I have barely even touched. One of these days I'm going to catch up with them. One of these days...

I managed a number of failed attempts at my GC2 MVL game; but mostly I played some "real" games with my friends: Poker, Euchre, and a game of Monopoly that I lost terribly...and oh some Smash Brawl in there too

Euchre is awesome!  Whenever my wife and I have a couple friends over we always try to get a game going.

Ditto. I've played the 1st mission from CoD4 and had it for ages. Barely started Bioshock. I bought a new ATI 4850 this weekend (sweet deal over the weekend at bestbuy, did manage to install that) and still never fired up either of those to see how they looked (24" monitor almost always reduces the potential of high end games but this new card should help).

I'm still very into WoW and have been WAY into the FFH mod/conversion for Civ IV which might be more enjoyable to me than Civ IV itself - it's reminiscent of MoM to me. Both of those take up lotsa time.

Once the patch is out and I buy the expansion, I'm sure GC2 will see some time consuming action.



Agreed. I live in AZ and so few people from the west have even heard of this game it seems. I grew up "back east" and used to play this and pinochle all the time with family and friends.

TF2 so I could own the pyro noobs.