Birthdays Rule

My kind parents and brother gave me a bunch of neat gifts for my birthday yesterday, among them Alone in the Dark 4 and Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick. I’ve update the database to reflect the games. Thanks guys!

I played Evil Dead for a few minutes last night and it seems like lots of fun. The game is violent and gory as hell, but the gore fits right in with the Evil Dead movie license. Everyone has wanted a chainsaw hand at least once… now you can have one.

If you are feeling like a generous soul, why not follow my family’s lead and donate a game?

Finally!

I took a break from Silent Hill 3 this evening to finally finish Carrier. I’ve posted my impressions on the Carrier information page, but to sum up, it was an incredibly boring Resident Evil rip-off. My clear time ended up being about 8 hours, but the mind numbing effect of the game forced me to play it over a period of four months.

There is actually a second playable character (inexplicably named Jessifer) in Carrier, and the genius game designers have set up her mode such that she progresses through the same levels as Jack (the main character), only backwards. I poked at her mode for about five minutes, but that was all I could take.

The Server Lives!!

After 3 full days down we are finally back up and running. My service provider, WestHost, whom I’ve been with for about three years, decided it would be a good idea to move a big chunk of their clients over to a new system setup over labor day weekend. Suffice to say that the move did not go well, and my server has been down as the result. My request for support was renamed from “Site Down” to “E-mail Problem” by one of the support staff, and consequently the site stayed off line even longer than it should have. When it finally came back up, I found that suddenly all my passwords had changed. Getting the database back up running required finding out what my new user name and password actually were. Argh!

Well, the good thing is that it is all over now and things appear to be working. I am now going to bed. Tomorrow I’ll have an update about a new Echo Night game.

Sucks to be Europe

This just in from The Magic Box:

Capcom is considering releasing Resident Evil Outbreak for PS2 in Europe without online support, the game may be presented with only offline modes. The reason is due to technical problems on the difference between the network systems used in Europe and the other two territories.