#Minecraft Boo

• Explore a scary new realm! A brand new hell world for fast travel. Portal in, move ten meters, portal out, and you're hundreds of meters away.
• Fight scary new monsters! Actually difficult this time around.
• Experience scarier depths! The deeper you are, the brighter it has to be to stay safe.
• Be scared of the dark! Torches will die after a while. Use flint and steel to reignite, or place lanterns that last forever.
• Catch scary fish! Or possibly just regular fish.
• Scare other players online! Less bugs, more implemented features.
• Carve scary jack-o-lanterns! Pumpkins can also be worn as totally useless helmets.
• Keep track of the scary time! A craftable watch lets you know when it's safe to emerge from the caves.
• AND MORE! Biomes. More music. Better sounds.
• Coming october 31, 2010 http://www.minecraft.net/boo/

So, this explains where I've been... #Minecraft

That's more hours in a single day than I spend during an entire month on most games.  Yep, I'm addicted.

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Yes, I'm playing Minecraft.

4 Civ IV Annoyances Fixed 5 ways in Civ V

I've had a few days to play around with the Civilization V demo now and I've found a few of the annoyances of Civ IV removed.

1. Religion. Religion was just an annoyance in Civ IV for most players and of benefit only to the hardcore. Religion added more onto an already bloated management screen for a player's cities. Conceptually solid, but not much fun in practice.

1. Civ 5 fixes this by simply removing religion in favor of a revamped Social Policies skill tree familiar to anyone that has played an RPG in the last decade.

2. Stacked units. Some Civ fans love stacked units and others hate them. I'm firmly in the hate category. It made it impossible to strategically plan a war as a player's stack or stacks could never sufficiently defend a landmass. Choke-points and bottlenecks were non-existent. Not to mention the headache that it was to manage stacked units.

2. Civ V features one unit per tile gameplay.

3. Too many units. It was amazing how many units that could be built in Civ IV. Micro-management of these forces of war was never-ending, leading to long turn times.

3. Civ V dials the total number of units way down making each unit far more important as they occupy a hex all by themselves. Also some resources are strategic in nature and limit the number of troops of a certain type a Civ can field. For example: a Civ with one iron resource can only have one iron-based unit.

4. Squares.

4. I really didn't realize squares bothered me until I played Civ V with it's magnificent hexes. Then I thought about all of the best board games I play: Settlers of Catan, Battle Lore, etc. They all have hex boards!

5. Finally, Civ V puts the smackdown on a lot of other annoyances by simply having a better UI; one that is clear and easy to understand on almost every single screen.

Civ5 Demo has me covered

Just a quick note during the busiest work weeks of my life to say that the Civilization V demo is all I need right now.  It's amazing how much it offers for the price of FREE.

Get your own copy of the demo via Steam.