Wohooo, it looks, like I’ll be able to play Mass Effect on my laptop with no problems. And don’t want to make any early conclusions, but it looks, that you won’t need a devil’s machine to play a new BioWare game. See the specs below! Right now I’m playing Knights of the Old Republic again just to kill some time before Mass Effect and I just can’t wait anymore:o) See the source of this new

Minimum System Requirements for Mass Effect on the PC

• Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
• Processor: 2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD
• Memory: 1 Gigabyte Ram (XP)/ 2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series(6800GT or better)/ ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)
• Hard Drive Space:12 Gigabytes
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

Recommended System Requirements for Mass Effect on the PC

• Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
• Processor: 2.6+GHZ Intel or 2.4+GHZ AMD
• Memory: 2 Gigabyte Ram
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or higher/ ATI X1800 XL series or higher
• Hard Drive Space: 12 Gigabytes
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers – 5.1 sound card recommended

Zombies are bad. Everyone knows that. So what’s the only thing we can do about them? Oh yeah kids, shoot ‘em all. And what do you think this game is all about. No way, you’re right! About shooting all those bad zombies.

Boxhead: The Zombie Wars is a game about surviving – more and more zombies try to kill you and your only task is not to let them accomplish this mission. You can do this using many weapons. Default pistol, a little better and more effective shotgun, barrels with gas that flops when you shoot them and take more zombies to hell…and of course many and many others.

There isn’t much to tell about the game. It looks like I said everything in the previous paragraph, so now only a little about game itself. Graphics is quite good for a flash game, no music, sounds are good, it’s not hard to find and use some shooting sounds in a game.

Actually this game is quite refreshing, because casual and flash games are mostly all fluffy and colourful. This one is not pointed at classic casual gamers, but if you don’t mind playing a little brainless game with all the shooting and you’ll see, it works just great.

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2D Boy: studio consist of three people former from EA who decide to create their own company, released second trailer for their first game: World of Goo. These guys working on most artistic and most experimental indie game I ever seen. I hope to see final version of the game soon.

I recommend to see first trailer, too.

Couple years ago there was just one genre in casual games: puzzles. New and new genres are pooping to casual games each year (I am looking forward to see some kind of casual FPS, ) and tycoons is one of the newest one. For game developers, tycoons have two faces: is very easy to create the tycoon game, but it is very, very hard to create good tycoon game, maybe just Chris Sawyer and Sid Meier created good tycoons, yet).

I downloaded Chocolatier with some disdain in my head, but I was amazed. Well, graphics and other assets are not so perfect, but who cares. I enjoyed first minutes a lot and I was prepared to write some great review.

In this game you are some kind of chocolate mogul. You are traveling across both North and South Americas (and all world later in the game). Buying the ingredients , buying factories, selling finished products, participate to quests and playing dices with strange travellers (really). Sometimes you’ve got new recipe to new kind of bar and traveling, buying factories, buying ingredients and… wait didn’t I say this? Yes this is the main problem. The game is very, very (very) repetitive and you cannot do something wrong.

I am completely turned off my brain and just travel around, randomly buy and sell gods (and plays some dices) and suprisely amount of money still grows. I was not able to went bankruptcy (maybe I could try to gamble all my money in the dices) and this make this game boring, very boring after 40 minutes (less if you are not big tycoon fanatic as I am).

I also found second sequel of this game in hope that authors fix the game play. Well, they didn’t. Everything else than graphics, time period and design of chocolate bar still completely same, shame on you authors.

Conclusion:
I believed that this is the best casual game I’ve ever play. After 40 minutes of game play I was very bored and found that game needs fixes ingame play and balance. I am not very sure if this game will find their audience: typical casual players will probably like it due to relatively complex mechanics (there is no tutorial as I can remember for this type of gamers) and typical tycoon type of players will not like, because you cannot do anything wrong and this is very boring. If you want to play any tycoon type of game, better to try Alice Greenfingers.

Today’s game actually found Dejv several months ago and he promissed to write about it. Well, he didn’t so and that’s why it’s up to me to introduce it to you, because I found it in my favourites today. It comes from Japan and as we all know, Japanese are a little crazy:o) And so is this game – Moainosu.

The principe is as easy as it can be – you’ll need only your mouse. But before you start, be sure to set high enough volume on your speakers because this game has got absolutelly fantastic music. Ready? Let’s start.

Because the game is all in Japanese, I’ll guide you a little. When you click our link, you’ll have to wait a while. First a commercial’s going to appear on your screen – it looks like two Bomber mans. Wait a second and then the game’s going to start loading. You’re going to see “Now loading” sign on your screen. And when a crazy beatbox musis starts, you can start to play!

You can start playing by pushing the first button. And now what to do – you’ll see Moai statues from Easter Island on your screen.They will appear and disappear again and you must point them with your mouse. No clicking, only pointing. You get score and you can get bonus score if you’re able to point every Moai in the wave. And thats all.

My best score is 15430 points (what a wonderful number;oD), but I think there’s still place to improve it:o)

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Because I have recently bought a new gamepad (actually it’s my first PC gamepad, second one if I count the one I used for a DDR controler), I’m trying to play a few games with it. And right now I got addicted to Test Drive Unlimited.

It’s exactly the example of a game, that is better now, than in the time it was released. Why? Two years ago it was almost impossible to run it smoothly. And what about now? Even on my non-gaming laptop with an ATI2600 it looks good and there are no problems while running. Besides, the game got a patch that’s repairing many bugs and even adds some new cars.

So here we are. Games are somehow like wine – sometimes if you wait a year or two, it gets better and better.

There is small behind the scenes videos from Maxis studio about Spore. Enjoy.