I have decided lately that I am going to co-create a new gaming website with my friend (known on this site as Valyndir) and that I am myself going to create my own small video game.

The video game will be a very long work in progress and will be nothing fancy. It will be basically me proving to myself that when I apply my minuscule knowledge of C++ that I can actually make a game. I am going to buy a C++ Primer book to brush up on my skills and hopefully learn even more. I will be using the ID Tech 3 engine because it comes at a low price of free as long as I abide by the GPL license. My plot and title for the game are being developed by myself on my spare time and what I can tell you is that it will be a comical FPS centered around the mispronunciation of words. I got the idea when my friends kept on mocking me over the way I said certain words and I wanted to make a video game so I blended the two things together.

The gaming website will be a site where my friends and I can distribute custom maps for games, mods, and make articles and reviews about games if we have time. It will also serve as a site for my friends Warhammer Online guild but don't worry for those who are not fans of MMO, it will not be pushed on you.

More info on both of these projects as it develops.

From the years 1997-2001 I was a loyal subscriber of the gaming magazine GamePro. I did so because I found them to have the best overall coverage of all platforms. These days all I buy is PC Gamer because the only consoles I own are the PS and N64. Well the other day at work I wanted something to read on my break so I go looking for the new issue of PC gamer but it hasn't hit shelves yet. Still in need of something to read I picked up the October issue of my old favorite GamePro. What do I find has become of it: nothing good. The size of the magazine is much smaller than I remember them being and the PC is not even in there. The only articles mentioning PC games are when they happen to say that a multiplatform game is also going to the PC. There are no reviews, previews, or anything else about any PC exclusive games. They might as well change the title to ConsolePro if they won't pay the PC any respect. I just don't get how a gaming magazine can ignore an entire platform, especially one that sells more games each year than the PS3, the 360, and the Wii (individually not combined). I will not be buying a GamePro magazine again and if I can find the time I will be writing them an email soon, not that they will care what I have to say.

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6400+
RAM: 4x 1024MB OCZ DC Platinum PC-6400
Video card: BFG 8800 GTS 320MB
Hard Drive: 500GB Maxtor SATAII HDD
Motherboard: Asus M2N-E
BFG Ageia PhysX card
Power Supply: 700 Watt Tagan PSU
Optical drive: LG GSA-H62L
Case: Antec 900
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 245B