Awful holidays. Bad internet access, bad new year’s eve and, in the end, my steam account was hijacked. I’m so furious. I would have never logged in that fake steam if my connection wouldn’t disconnect me from the real steam every two minutes. I may be able to log in again in the next days but for now I’m cut out, without the control of the Gamers Inn group on steam (Catman is currently administrator and has been warned).

Anyway, because of my shitty connection I had to play mostly offline. I replayed the whole Donkey Kong Country series and started Dead Space. It’s really creepy. You never know what’s going to come out of one of the six hundred corridors you’re running in. Its best is the interface. Every menu, inventory, map etc… is drawn like an hologram in front of Isaac and turning the camera makes them rotate, except for the map that is rotated as well inside the hologram frame. Absolutely fantastic!

SNK revealed the roster of The King Of Fighters XII and I got a surprise. KoF’s re-birth affects even the looks of the characters:

According to the official japanese website, Leona and Athena are both 18!!!

Anyway, I miss Mai and the whole NESTS team.

Quick links for you.

World of Goo Soundtrack free download. Get it before it expires!

http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/

Plain Sight is now open beta. Suicide has never been so profitable.

http://www.plainsightgame.com/beta

For the updates and rumors section we’ve got a big Gears of War 2 update featuring several exploit fixes, bug fixes and balancing fixes that kept many players away from the multiplayer scene ’till now.

While Team fortress fans are all ears for this rumor. Looks like Valve has several new classes on paper and one of them could join the missions after the Scout achievement pack that will be released early this year. Also, the Scout update will feature a new official map and probably a new game mode. I hope it won’t look like the map I’m making right now.  Here’s a small glimpse of it.

Can you say bomb cart? I can’t, but apparently this thing could make blues win.