Monday Night Games

This week my friends Joe and Wade came back over for another round of Monday night gaming goodness. As it happens Joe showed up first and we talked about what sort of games we wanted to play last night. The problem is that we have only about 4 and half hours, a bit less if [...]

First Impressions of Diablo III

I am sure most people that reads my blog have heard about Diablo III, a game from the company Blizzard. It is one of the crown jewels of the game company, aside from World of Warcraft and Starcraft. For the last ten years everyone who remembers Diablo II has been excited about the sequel. For [...]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]

New Year’s Resolutions: 2012

This year I am simply making lists of things that I want to achieve or do better at. Straight up. Nothing fancy, nothing clever: pure aspirations of 2012. And with that, here is my list of resolutions for the year 2012: Goals for 2012 Health 1. Get more sleep 2. Get my taste buds back–Instead [...]

Thanksgiving Sci-Fi Marathon 2011

So as the holiday approaches, I am thinking of repeating my Labor Day Sci Fi marathon. What to choose? I will be accessing most of my content via the Netflix streaming so what should I try? Should I keep to my favorites and watch something I know will enjoy, or should I venture into new [...]

Patch to MULTIVERSE

A new version of Multiverse is available for download at AtomicGamer. It is not what I would call an official upgrade, but more of a patch to the original mod. Changes: Civic Screen is now vertical to help out computers with small screens or resolution Commander and Slave Ships now capture Barbarian units correctly Stone [...]

Starting Research for Age of Discovery

  I am officially starting my development on my next mod, tentatively called “Age of Discovery” although it probably should be given a “II” since I had an earlier buggy version of the mod. This version will be written completely fresh, from the ground up using a standard base mod template or using the non-animated [...]

Extreme2 Has Been Updated

The quintessential Civilization IV mod has been updated again.  In this version I have added  several new unique units and unique buildings to the latter part of the game.  version 4 is the latest version as of September 17th 2011 of this game.  You can download the new version from:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XJGJT2DA Additional information:  http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=415468

Multiverse Released!

Multiverse You can download this mod here at:            http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5WOQR4SL Multiverse, version I is finally ready to be released to the general gaming public. After several months of coding and more polishing and playtesting, the mod is ready for people to play.  Multiverse is a mod much different than its predecessor  named ExtremeMod [...]

Updated Blog

As I try to better represent myself, as well as my ideas in Gaming, History, and print I have made some recent changes to the Emerald Tablet.  Please take note of some additional and modified tabs at the top, most specifically “Other Writing” to which I added my novel for easy reference. I have also [...]