No quicksaves or restarts here, but a lot of fun nonetheless.

Welcome to 2008.

My little patch has had a bit of a makeover. A mauve-like theme this year. The banner is a cool shot across Nightcliff Beach (Darwin, NT, AUS) and the Blog Picture was taken just down the road at East Point (Darwin, NT, AUS). Both are self-taken images. My profile icon was made by some dude called 'Stellar'. The site said to acknowledge any use, so my duty is done.

New Images: The top image is the Sunset from the Dead Sea and the other is from Wadi Musa - location of Petra

My gaming rig is now a bit too far behind the times, but I don't have the time or $$ to buy a new one. I can upgrade to a 4200+ X2 CPU and another 1GB of Ram, but that's it for 2008. UPDATE - The PC has folded. New PC ordered - and it's bang-up-to-date

This will probably be the only blog post of 2008, but I intend to update as I finish games. The reviews should keep coming, let's see if I can get to three figures by year's end.

Games completed in 2008

1. Hellforces - Completed 12 January 2008

2. Sam and Max Ep 201 : Ice Station Santa - Completed 26 January 2008

3. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne - Completed 31 January 2008

4. Sam and Max Ep 202 : Moai Better Blues - Completed 2 February 2008

5. Mob Enforcer - Completed 8 February 2008

6. Civil War : A Nation Divided - Completed 16 February 2008

7. Luxor 3 (with my good wife) - Completed 18 February 2008

8. Bad Day LA - Completed 19 February 2008

9. Tennis Masters Series 2003 - Season finished 2 March 2008

10. Rogue Trooper - Completed 9 March 2008

11. Unreal - Completed 10 March 2008 - What a cracker!

12. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Completed 23 March 2008

13. Portal (Ho Ho Ho!!!) - Completed 24 March 2008

14. Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare - Completed 30 March 2008

15. Battle for the Pacific - Completed 31 March 2008 (Two hours max!!)

16. Elite Forces - Navy SEALs - Completed 1 April 2008

17. Patriots - A Nation Under Fire - Completed 3 April 2008

18. World War II Combat: Iwo Jima - Completed 4 April 2008

19. Ballance - Completed 19 April 2008

20. History Channel - Lost Worlds - Completed 2 May 2008

21. Battlestrike - Force of Resistance - Completed 10 May 2008

22. The Hell in Vietnam - Completed 17 May 2008

23. Feeding Frenzy - Completed 23 May 2008

24. Code of Honor - The French Foreign Legion - Completed 24 May 2008

25. Shadowgrounds - Completed 26 August 2008 (Droughtbreaker)

26. SAS - Secure Tomorrow - Completed 29 November 2008 (I didn't die once!)

Best Wishes for the coming year to all and sundry.