XCom on Steam!!!


Last week Valve gave you a “gift”: they released on STEAM 5 (five) XCom titles; price about $16.

X-COM: Complete Pack; in the link, you can visit the page of the first episode.

I have already bought them! On saturday, I was happy like a child!!!
In the image you can see my little start menu with the XCom’s icons.
If you like the online gaming with UFO, you have to download UFO2000, the multi-player remake that permits to try to challenge a human over the Internet, instead of one of the smartest artificial intelligence of the history of videogames.

Alien cheers!

Marco

I was the only italian in a group of eight?!?!? Amazing!

Ieri sera mi è capitata una cosa molto strana e interessante, ma che ti fa toccare con mano quanto possa essere curiosa l’attività lavorativa che sto affrontando in Milestone a Milano.
C’era la festa di Juan, un nostro collega cileno; era il suo ultimo giorno di contratto e decidiamo di bere una birra come Milestone in un pub.
Usciamo dall’ufficio; mi trovo nel gruppo di chi va utilizzando la metro. Conto: siamo in otto….ecco l’elenco delle nazionalità presenti:

Italia 1
Svezia 2
Francia 1
India 1
Cile 1
Polonia 1
Germania 1

Quando mai in Italia si può trovare una realtà così variegata nel proprio ufficio?
Io lo trovo stupendo..anche solo per allenare il proprio inglese ed aprire un po’ la propria mente da uno stile italiano a uno stile un po’ più europeo e globale!

Per la cronaca…la serata è stata molto divertente (anche se con un velo di tristezza per l’addio imminente) e, per me, molto alcolica…che per me vuol dire essere riuscito a bere due birre medie.

International cheers,
Marco

A real videogame movie…


Even if I have not finished yet this title, I have decided to write this post because I think that it is a real gem in the “same old soup” titles of this last ten years.

2005: the game came out and I didn’t consider it because it was a graphical adventure. I remember only an ISO image left on a “everyone” shared area of a computer in my previous company.
2008: some colleagues of mine have suggested playing this game as “one of the best graphical adventure ever”….

I have began to play and I have noticed that the soundtrack has been written by Angelo Badalamenti (the man behind the “Twin Peaks” soundtrack). Good start.
Now it is one of the few games that involves myself: the story, the characters, the gameplay uses the PS2 PAD in a new way.

It’s amazing because you have to follow the ethical path and the angst of each character.

You have to play it or on a PS2 or using a PC, but with a PS2 pad or similar.

I hope that this involvement can last until the end!
…and now…in 2009…another gem by Quantic dream…”Heavy rain”; please check the teaser on YOUTUBE!

Cheers,
Marco