Now recently my PC died on me, it said it had a harddrive malfunction after much thinking I decided against a recovery as I can simply re-install all of my old products again. So Im now trying to repair my PC with the vista install CD

I have been without for quite a while and have been missing my MMORPG's! So hopefully I'll be able to play sometime this week again otherwise I'll bring it to the computer store and see if they have anything they can do for me

So many wasted opportunities of nights without gaming, but I replaced them with my xbox 360

Fingers crossed!

I just saw a interview about the new Tony Hawks: ride game, which for steering has a actual skateboard design that you stand on with different sensors, so the idea seems pretty cool taking skating games to a realistic level.

But I still dont completely trust it, how do you do a kickflip even on the board? as to do a ollie you simply press the tail back and bring the nose upwards to ollie, but what movement would you have to do, to do flip tricks? Grabs are done by placing your hands over a sensor after doing a ollie.

Something which I thought was clever was to move forwards you slide your foot past the sensor on the side and your avatar will push forwards.

So I think it has a big possibility to become a good product, but I need to learn more about it before I am convinced its worth deciding to buy it or not, especially since for me it has a huge rivalry with the skate games which in my opinion were so much better then the tony hawks games due to the realistic aspect

I recently bought anno 1404 AKA Dawn of Discovery

the game is pretty cool in the sense that you can't completely control the characters on the screen, you have to try and build certain structures to help the villagers, and if certain needs are taken care of then your area will gain a "rank" such as village.

I only just started playing so the amazing graphics and campaign may not hold me as long as I may find, but you are constantly expanding your empire as you need to get materials which aren't present on the starting island (mostly spices etc.) so you quickly find yourself creating trade routes to keep the villagers happy with more resources.

For myself it's fun because I enjoy the concept of creating a civilization from scratch and then slowly expanding it to a grand empire for yourself, remembering when it started witha few houses to several islands filled with buildings and working structures.

I encourage poeple to at least give it a try, because I thought I would enjoy it only for a while but the game keeps you entertained as you struggle to keep your resources at a good amount and to keep your villagers happy.