Tiger Eye Crosses Over To PC

Paranormal romance has gained a solid foothold in the world of books and TV. I know a few people who are fans of the stuff and chances are you know someone like that yourself. That’s why I decided to share with you a few tidbits from a press release I received.

New gaming company, PassionFruit Games, launches with first of its kind romance casual game based on bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu’s Tiger Eye novel.”

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I haven’t written about The Big Bang Theory since I first talked about it and Reaper in my look at the, then, upcoming TV season. I wanted to talk about it several times, but I held off. I had a nagging doubt in the back of my mind.

“If you write about it, it’ll go away.”

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To celebrate the 12th anniversary of Command and Conquer, EA has made the original C&C free to download. That’s right free. At no cost. No money down and nothing to pay later.

Download Command & Conquer now.
(Update: The official site is no longer hosting the files, but you can still get ‘em from MegaGames, just click on download above the title.)

If you run XP you’ll need to burn it to a CD. If you can’t burn a CD, find a friend who can. Command & Conquer is worth it.

Command & Conquer Intro Movie

Granted, it’s not going to be as pretty as Command & Conquer 3. It is an older game. Think about it though, this game was good enough to spawn one of the greatest PC game franchises ever. Command & Conquer is the standard in real-time strategy. Now you can play the game that started it all for free.

I’m going to download it now.

With all the time that Dragon Con sucked up in the last month or so I almost forgot about Guild Wars. More specifically, I almost forgot about Guild Wars: Eye of the North. It’s the first expansion as well as the last product to be released for Guild Wars. After this we’ll have to wait for Guild Wars 2.

To be perfectly honest, I was leaning towards skipping this one. Nothing I’d heard about the game before the release made me want to buy it. The game itself was never what had my interest. What I’m hoping for is the resolution to one little dead end quest. I want to find out more about one very minor character from the very beginning of the very first game.

I want to know what happened to Gwen.

After seeing that video I think I’m gonna have to buy it. That seems to be proof that Gwen will finally make her return. There are other clues, Just look at how ArenaNet abbreviates the game title.

• Full title.

  Guild Wars: Eye of the North.

• Obvious abbreviation.

  GW:EotN.

• Abbreviation used by ArenaNet.

  GW:EN.

That alone sparked a handful of threads on Guild Wars forums. It’s really no surprise either. Gwen has been one of the more beloved characters since beta testing. Well, beloved to some. There are players who are downright sick of Gwen. I can’t really blame them either.

There have been a few hoaxes involving the possible location of this character. Stories about how to find her. Stories about how she would return some day. Will she be a Hero? Will she be a villain? Is she still alive at all or is she in the Underworld? There are so many questions surrounding her. I’m not surprised that some players are sick and tired of all the speculation.

You have to hand it to Anet though. They recognized the mystery. They fanned the flames bit by bit with clues. They held back on giving any real answers. They’ve managed to take an ordinary NPC and make her a legendary figure in the story of Tyria.

JJ Abrams is playing mind games with his fans again. Setting up web sites to argue back and forth over some crappy Lovecraft prophecy ripoff. Yes, more flash puzzles, faked site hacks and confusing videos abound. Swirling around in this mess is a new movie, known only at this time as Cloverfield.

Here’s the mysterious(spooky music) movie trailer.

Lots of flash, things go boom, no information. Yep, that’s a JJ Abrams movie all right. Just listen to sound around 1:11. Sounds a lot like the monster from Lost to me. That’s my prediction. Cloverfield is Lost – The Movie. Near the end it says “In Theaters 1-18-08″. When is Lost supposed to end? 2010 isn’t it? What would be a great way to build interest in the last couple of seasons of a show that will probably have been on 2 years too long by then? That’s right, a movie.

Ethan Haas, Van Mantra and whatever other name that pops up will probably be anagrams. Just like Ethan Rom and many other names found in Lost.

I just hope Locke is in it. As long as John Locke survives, screw the rest of ‘em.

What do you think? Is JJ Abrams in a rut or what?

I just wrote up a short review of OtakuUSA for animefansonline.com, it should be posted in about an hour. (It’s up now, been up for a while)

Check out OtakuUSA. It’s a good anime/manga magazine.