Song Pop - Metal

The game is now starting to become a chore & I hate the way it tells you what the other person has guessed because I know nothing about Metal music but by copying Michael's guesses & a lucky fluke on Iowa I was able to beat him. It should be like Trivie which does not tell you what the other player guessed until the round is over.

Guild Wars 2 - Beta Test

Thanks to a retweet from MerseyMal I was lucky enough to get a beta key from the Eurogamer giveaway to try Guild Wars 2.

My main concern was would the game run on my current system with my basic graphic card.

Thankfully I had no issues at all even with all the action that was happening in the game. I did not spend too long with the beta because I did not want to ruin the experience of the game when released but with my brief few hours I managed to complete a few quests, be involved in a couple of boss fights & even take part in a dynamic event.

My pre-order is done so now time to sit back and wait till the 28th August.

Tiny Tower - New Update - Save your VIPs

It's good to see that Nimblebit are still updating Tiny Tower.

The recent update gave us new floors & costumes whilst also giving the ability to choose which floor you want to build (This is a silly option because the amount of bux's you need is stupidly high).

The most useful feature of this update is the ability to save your VIPs in the Lobby. You can save up to 5 VIPs for use at a later time. My screenshot shows me having 3 VIPs waiting in the lobby to use.

I'm continuing upgrading every floor to level 5 stock & also delving into the past history of UGVM to pull out some names for new floors.

I've now done a spreadsheet to help me see who has what floor

Draw Something - Parrot

Lastly then a Parrot

Draw Something - Palm

Next we have a Palm Tree with a sunset view

Draw Something - Snail

Some more of my Draw Something masterpieces to show off. We start with a Snail

Tiny Tower - What to do now?

With needing to collect 499 bux I had a target or goal to aim for but now I have the best lift in the game.

What to do now?
Well I still have lots of floors left to build & bitizens to find to fill the dream jobs.

With the bux I collect now I spend on upgrading the stock level on each floor to hopefully get them all to level 5.

This takes longer for the stock to refill but has the advantage of rewarding you with more stock.

 I'm also running out of potential UGVM people to take over the floors so will need to delve into the archives & do a roll call to make sure everyone is included.

Song Pop - Dekay sucks at Classic Rock

An opportunity to embarrass a fellow UGVM member? Ok Why not :)

I also did pretty bad.

Draw Something - Barney

No not the purple dinosaur but the original & the best Barney Rubble from The Flintstones

Draw Something - Metroid

I'm still playing & I especially love any video game words. Here we have Samus

Matching with Friends - New High Score

Finally I won a game !!

The game I lost against my son I had a high score of 3090 but I still managed to lose.

My first win comes against who else but Words with Friends chum & fellow UGVM friend Becky (Thanks Becky for letting me win)

Getting 980 points on one turn helped me take the win.

New Game - Matching with Friends

What !! not yet another turn based game !!

Yes this time Matching with Friends by Zynga.

A simple game in that you have to match up the coloured tiles to get points (minimum of 3 tiles required to score)

You have x2 & x3 tiles on the board which you can use to boost your score & also you can double your points by matching tiles on your colour (see the blue square under my name in the first screenshot) when I get any matches with the colour blue the score will double.

Also star tiles will match any colour you can place on them, I managed to score 980 points against Becky in our current game.

Yet I am still to win a game losing even to my son who managed to score 1160 in a single turn to beat me.

The free version of the game lets you play with the odd advert or you can pay £1.99 for the ad-free version (I'll wait till the inevitable 69p sale to purchase)

What else? Oh yes coins, you earn coins by completing a game which you can then use to purchase explosion powerups which will destroy tiles on the board or you can use the coins to swap out one of the tiles you have been drawn to play.

It's instantly playable & easy to pick up but will it be a keeper like Words with Friends, Disc Drivin, Hero Academy & Carcassonne? Only time will tell.

New Game - Syndicate

£10 ? no not yet. £10? No not yet! … email from The Hut “Hello, Is it me you’re looking for?” have 10% off. DELETE.

£10 no not yet. HUK feed The Hut Syndicate £14.99 oh sod it where’s that email !! Click, Click order placed.

I tried the demo when the game was released with a few from UGVM (Jochta, Cooltag & I forget who else sorry). The demo had you playing the role of an agent. You have to run through the map hacking technologies & shooting enemies. There is an emphasis on co-op play because you need to heal team members & sometimes reboot them.

With the game purchased it was time to play the game proper with Gus & Cooltag, our first map was Northern Territories which proved challenging enough on normal difficulty that all three of us died very quickly. There are different classes in the game Support, Offence & Defence and all these really give you is a different default gun load out. Trying again we come up against the boss who had a protective shield which you first need to hack to disable before he can take any damage. Once he died you could then remove a chip which is the currency in the game for upgrades. But to take him down we had to play for the team, no lone wolf attempts. I would disarm his shield while Gus & Cooltag would attack. I would also then keep an eye on the their health bar & heal if needed. Hopefully the next session we will have an extra player to join us, I really enjoyed the co-op gameplay & Syndicate should keep us busy until Borderlands 2.