OwnCloud

I never realized I could have my own.   Plus you are able to do more with it being on your own site.

"How to Set Up Your Own Private Cloud Storage Service in Five Minutes with OwnCloud" http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/vip/~3/zaZQJ3JQ-jo/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-cloud-storage-service-in-five-minutes-with-owncloud

Wow! 200,000 Lego Bricks

This is very impressive.   I wish I had the money and time to build something like this.

"Mike Doyle builds massive city of Odan from 200,000 Lego bricks [Interview] | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog" http://feedly.com/k/XbQ3iv

A New Dragonball Z Movie

It has been awhile since a Dragonball Z movie has come out.   Seventeen years according to the article.

The article has some major spoilers in it but even after reading it, I want to watch it even more.

I hope someone dubs it in English so I'm able to watch it and understand what's going on. Especially since no international release is intended right now.

The New Dragon Ball Z Movie Isn't Deep or Profound, but it is a Ton of Fun [feedly]

Nimble Quest

From the people who made Tiny Tower, which can be an addicting game, they have now made Nimble Quest. They took something very simple and have made something really cool, fun, and enjoyable to play.

All they did was take the old classic snake game where you can't touch the walls, yourself and you eat to get longer which makes staying alive even harder.

In Nimble Quest you do grow but you add Heroes. You start out as a Warrior, skeleton, Mage, and many more Heroes as I have yet to unlock them all. As you progress through the stages, when you kill the enemies, a Hero will appear. All you have to do is touch him and he joins your party. I didn't count bit it looks like at least 20 different Heroes are available to get.

Once you get a Hero you can start off the round with that Hero and work to level him up. Each level increases his abilities and they, can go up 3 levels. I haven't figured out if me leveling up one person is level 1 in the game if I pick him up while playing with another Hero but I'm assuming they are.

So as you can imagine, the party gets longer and longer with the more Heroes you acquire. They do have health and you collect gems to help upgrade abilities along the way.

So if you didn't figure it out yet, this game is a small RPG. Only you never stop moving and kill everything on the screen to move on to the next level.

It's such a simple brilliant idea that they have come up with that I'm really enjoying it. I keep wanting to play it more and more. I've got a ways to go but I definitely want to unlock all the characters in the game.

Controlling your party with swiping which way you go really does make playing it more enjoyable. Just be careful to watch out for the slowly appearing enemies as I've numerously died from one spawning that I didn't see.

They do have an Arena section for online and I played it once but not sure how all the ranking will be. Some people already have some outlandish scores that I know I will never beat. I did create a clan name that all you have to do is type that name in and it looks like it puts you in that clan. Doesn't have any restrictions to keep people from joining anyone's clan. So if you want to join one, join mine for starting out, you can switch later very easily. Mine is called "Hobbits". That should be easy enough to remember.

Assassian's Creed 2

A friend bought me this game for my PS3 a long time ago and I never played it.  It took me two weeks to talk myself into playing the game and I finally started it last week.

It's definitely different than most games I've played.  One of the biggest things is the controller.  Starting out I really don't like the placement of how they make you press buttons to perform actions in the game.  Yes, I'll get use to it as I go along from repetition but I just hate they way they did it.  So that gives me a bad vibe for having to play through the entire game with that in mind.

Some of the buttons don't work but I think I have to learn more skills before I can really say it's not working as some things are starting to work where they didn't at first.  So I'll bring this up on my next post on the game I make.

The graphics are pretty descent but the white lines from the machine, which do remind you that it's not real, to me, takes away from the game some.  It's how they point things out, where to go and grab stuff from the white lines that look like it is computer made. It's pretty hard to find spots where you need to go as well. If its in the middle of the building, you might have to walk around the bottom to find the entrance, go on the roof and find it or a combo of climbing around just to get to the objective. I hope that gets better as I go along through the story.

I've only played it once so far for about 2 hours. Made it to the point of getting Assassins outfit and that's where I stopped.

Kingdom Rush Update on iPad

They released an update for Kingdom Rush on the iPad about 1-2 weeks ago.  This is still the best tower defense game I've ever played and always enjoy going back to it. 

In the new update they released a hard mode and two new boards to play on.  Glacial Heights and Ha'kraj Plateau.  Neither of which are easy to beat and it has taken me this entire time to beat them.

I started out playing the new maps and finally got 1 star in each of them.  I looked at the achievements and noticed one of the new ones was to beat the campaign on hard mode.  Since it had been awhile since I've actually played it, I started working on that.  I flew through hard mode.  It almost seemed too easy.  Was enjoyable going back through and beating the entire game again.

So then I went and started back to working on the new boards that released.  I focused on Glacial Heights first then went to Ha'kraj Plateau.  On both boards it took me using the gems in the game to buy a bomb that blows up everything on the screen to actually win them both.  They are very hard to beat but it is so much fun to play.

If you don't have this game, it's one you should really considering buying.  It's well worth the money.

Yu-Gi-Oh! on Xbox 360 is a Plus now

I was happy to see when they brought Yu-Gi-Oh! back to the Xbox 360 again but I never realized they added a Plus to it.  So I'm definitely a little late to the party posting about this but since I just found out, I gotta say something.

I loaded it up just the other day and had a huge update.  Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was so big.  I haven't played it since they released it back out so I knew it would have an update but didn't think it would be that big.

So it gets done and I go to play.  Win my first match and the cards that popped up, I was like, I don't have that card, I've never seen that card on here before.  I was confused.  Went through a few matches and realized the players decks had changed as well.  I was thrown off for sure.

So jumped online and sure enough, when they released it back out, they put out a bunch of new cards for it.  I might have all the achievements but now I have a reason to play it to earn more cards to make more decks to play with.  So I'm a little excited for that.

Now if I could just get one of my friends to buy it and start playing it, I know I'll always have someone to play it with.