Blizzard is going to release a three part comic about World of Warcraft: The sunwell Trilogy.

The first volume can be freely readed online here.

A fantastic 32 min documentary about the Final Fantasy series games, reviewing the evolution and most notable improvements of each one.

Thanks to Kozluk for showing me the video

I've discovered that one of the new features of Picasa is slideshows!

So, as the old blog had (but just with images, not complete galleries) before moving here, now each page view will show a random gallery of images.

Hope you like them!

The boy was amazed. He just found a square full of green, natural grass. He could believe it.

His parents always told him not to go there,  to the construction zone of the city,  because he could slip or fall and get hurt with a metal pipe or similar.

But he was not very good following orders, so he kept going there. He could spend hours, looking at the dozens of kilometers of entire residential areas being built, everything covered with white concrete. Even the wooden patches would get almost white because of the concrete dust.

Except for his small, green square.

How could the grass had survived there? In  his entire life, he only had seen grass at the recreational areas (most of them had artificial grass) and at the natu-parks, the small last remains of natural environments, sealed and carefully maintained as a living snapshot of the past, before mankind almost destroyed the planet.

But if there was grass under that piece of concrete, could it be in other places? Would it be possible then to bring back the Nature?

Another funny machinima video:

Ohhhh, today I've found Odin Sphere, a pretty PS2 2D action-RPG that will be released in weeks in USA.

The game is like an anime... graphics, music, voices, story... I hope it comes to Europe too (I thought God of War II was going to be my last PS2 game... I was wrong ;)

Here you are some screenshots and trailers about it:

This  last days have been quite busy ones... I've vastly improved my skills and changed my equipment, mostly thanks to tobal. But, as there are many histories, today I will tell all before tobal helped me.

I was having some fun in Gnomegeran killing troggs, when my equipment got a bit wrecked. I decided to go somewhere else and explore new lands, forge new friendships and learn about new cities and cultures. 


So I went to Booty Bay,  and said goodbye to the pirate goblins while waiting for the boat to arrive.


While travelling to the western kingdoms, inside the boat were two horde trolls, which delighted me with a local tribal dance, druid morphing into monster included.
 
As I arrived, I went for my local contact at Theramore, the owner of the lighthouse. He recommended me to speak with the local guards, to increase my  reputation with them.


There was a nearby outpost so I went into the swamps to reach it.


While crossing the swamps, I found a lonely house, with a man who asked for my help. He needed food, turtle shells and other stuff I could gather hunting local fauna.


So I began hunting red raptors.


And lots of big turtles. Around them were murloks, so the hunting was intense and took some  time.

 
I found some secret plans to spy Theramore in a dead explorer's body, and gave them to the outpost captain.


With the duty done, I explored the surroundings, finding an adbandoned mine, full of poisoning  spiders.


But with appreciated Iron vets... So I went deeper...

and deeper inside the mine. I found a spider queen  at the bottom, and killed it before more spiders could grow and infest the swamps.


Greeding for more minerals, I asked the local guards where could I find more vets. They  told me that crossing The Barrens were a canyon zone called Thousand Needles, known for having varied and abundant vets.


After arriving to Thousand Needles, and using an ancient elevator which took me inside the canyon, I spent days mining all kind of minerals, until my backpacks were almost full and I couldn't carry anymore.


I also had to fight not only Horde enemies, but wyverns, panters and earth elementals along the way.


Curiously, I found that one of the bifurcations of the canyon converged with a forest, and  had a small Night Elf explorer outpost, in  which I had finally some rest.


Once rested, I deeped into the forest, looking for a small island after it that the elves told me  about.


The mountains were still there, with huge falls, and very dense vegetation. The Sun was  almost fully covered above the tall trees.


I finally reached the coast, and found the island, so I swimmed to it.


The Night Elfs had built a small town, well guarded and just bothered about forest wolfs...


And some Naga monsters that had invaded some old ruins. I promised to help the town and went to kill as much of them as I could.


I did kill a lot of them, but they were so many I had to retreat. I was in need of further combat and skill training.

So I arranged a meeting with my friend tobal, and decided to cross Thousand Needles again, this time southwest to Tanaris.


One funny/curious thing I found in my journey was the goblin races* But as usual with goblin technology, the place was all full of junk, broken pieces and damaged "racer vehicles".

* Actually it's an easter egg to Star Wars: Episode I pod racing :)

Windows Vista has some problems running current games, so imagine "how well" it can run old MS-DOS titles (tip: forget about it ;)

The other day, remembering old games I didn't finished and I sould have, I remembered that I've played Ultima VIII far more than Ultima VII (yeah, I'm ashamed), so I searched for a solution to install it on my laptop (which runs Windows Vista now).

After some work, I found Exult, a marvelous open-source engine that runs both Ultima VII: The Black Gate and it's expansion Ultima VII: Part Two - Serpent Isle.
Apart from some tweaks, cheat modes/debug modes, new options and a few bug fixes, the most important feature is that it allows to run the game windowed and in almost every resolution.

So, if you wanna save Britannia as the Avatar in one of the best RPGs out there, give this a try ;)