EVE: Online Crime

According to Giant Bomb, the off-beat and totally cool MMO EVE Online recently encountered their first major class criminal. For people not familiar with EVEO, it's players make up the main government, which includes actually governing and making laws. Players can also own corporations such as banks, and hire real employees to work as tellers and other underlings. (This is how I understand it, someone correct me if I'm wrong)
The story goes like this: a teller went bad, and embezzled over 80 million ISKs (the main currency in EVEO) and took off. No, they didn't just sell the money online and kill their account. They weren't banned by a GM, or asked to give the money back. Players are now conducting a manhunt across the EVE galaxy looking for this person, to get the money back to the bank company.
As you can imagine, the players that had their money in the bank started to go and withdraw funds in a panic, even after the company made a public announcement that they had the funds to cover the loss.

Crazy, crazy, awesome.


What I'm playing: Crysis: Wars, Team Fortress 2, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War II MP Beta
Games I'm into: Dawn of War II, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Burnout Paradise.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

Finally picked it up the other day, and wow. It really is a cool game, and I can see why people have been raving about it. It won "Best Ambient Game" of '07 or something around those lines, and I have to say, it sure does live up to it's name. I mean it's award. Although riddled with bugs and incredibly confusing quests, the open world aspect works very well, and the setting is perfect. I haven't noticed any music except for the menu theme, a deep, eerie string theme that's stereotyped at best, but it fits the mood. The atmosphere is incredible, if you're raiding a Freedom camp the zings of bullets flying past your head and squad commands of your fellow Stalkers are incredibly well executed. As you venture farther into the zone, almost into Prypiyat (spelling?) itself, the radiation is hampering. As you fight your way past mutants, zombie bandits, and crazed militia people into a wasteland of lighting, and anomalies that suck you up then spit you out as a pile of dirt it feels like the end of the world. Really. It does. I feel like I'm playing as Gordon Freeman and stopping the combine super portal, but Stalker style. And it's just so awesome.

Anyways, STALKER is a great game, and I hear it's recently released prequel, Clear Sky, is even better.


What I'm playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, CoD: World at War, Company of Heroes, TF2, L4D
Games I'm into: StarCraft II, Diablo III,