I just got the piece of gaming news I’ve gotten so far in my life:
Lucasarts is releasing a special edition of the best adventure game of all time (Monkey Island 2: Lechuck’s Revenge) this summer 
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Monkey Island 2 – Lechuck’s Revenge
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Trekwar cargo system
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Today I mostly finished the Trekwar Cargo system, so now it’s possible to collect resources and bring them back to your starsystems.
Also included 4 images from the design and implementation of the UI:
Read full devblog post at trekwar.org
A new Hobby
Sunday, February 21st, 2010I’ve recently started a new hobby, which involves tiny plastic beads 
Everyone used to make stuff with “Hama Perler” when they were kids, but now that I’m grown up, it’s actually way more fun.
I’m currently making all the main characters from Monkey Island 2 (Just Guybrush and Stan so far), but Elaine, Herman Toothrot, Lemon head and the others aren’t far behind.
I’ll be adding pictures of the stuff I make on this picasa album
Trekwar sensor system
Thursday, February 18th, 2010I haven’t had much time working on Trekwar lately, but I’ve recently made a prototype of the sensor system:
I’ll have to add this, as well as fog of war when I’m done with the fleet management tools which are almost ready.
Star Trek Online update
Sunday, February 14th, 2010So, beta is over, and I’ve made it to Commander level (not had much time to play). So far the game is pretty fun, but I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve hit endgame.
So meanwhile I’ll post my two favorite bugs from the beta:
Ground avatar in space instead of spaceship
and of course.. The eyes popping out while doing the dance emote
Star Trek Online Open Beta
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Yay, tomorrow Star Trek Online goes into open beta
I’ve played around a bit in the closed beta, and so far I’m impressed, the space combat is fun and action packed, and the Ground combat is a bit like World of Warcraft, only more action, more interesting quests (no grinding, while waiting for drops) and the Fleet actions (Large open instances) were pretty awesome
I’ll miss my Andorian captain, who was wiped with all the other closed beta characters today:(
Star Trek Online
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009After years of following the development, Star Trek Online is finally in closed beta, and the game is on track for a early 2010 release
The cryptic character creator will allow you to invent new species for the game, and I might go for something like this:
Or if that is not possible my character will be Andorian (assuming this fits well with a tactical/dps character). I’m in the “guild” called “12th fleet”, and we are now the second largest guild on the STO forum. So if you want to play with the pro’s, head over to http://www.12th-fleet.com
The Secret of Monkey Island
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
In addition to the brand new game, a remake of the original Secret of Monkey Island with better graphics/audio will be released on Steam in 7 hours from now. I’m really looking forward to this as the graphics in the original is not really great and does not compare well to Monkey Island 2 (which still looks great)
I guess this is the summer of the Monkey, which is AWESOME
Update – June 20th
Now I finally played trough the whole thing, and it was great!
The new graphics/effects/music/speech really made it much more playable than the original version, which really has started to show signs of old age with pretty gloomy and ugly graphics.
The game only cost 9€ on Steam.. I would gladly pay 30€ for a similar remake of Monkey Island 2 which is 5 times better than the first one, but I think I might start playing the second game now anyway, since the graphics there are way better than the original Secret of Monkey Island.
Tales of Monkey Island
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009The latest Monkey Island game called “Tales of Monkey Island” came out about a week ago. The game is divided up into 5 episodes, and one episode will be released monthly by telltale games.
I am a HUGE Monkey Island fan, and have played all the game several times, but I was somewhat skeptical of this new game. I had previously tried the Wallace & Gromit and the Sam’n'Max game from Telltale games and I hated them (both were the demos on steam).. Did not like them.. The controls were awkward and I did not like the game engine at all. The stories also did not seem very good.
Luckily after playing for 10 minutes I was glad to know that the first episode of the game “Launch of the screaming narwhal” was nothing like this.
The gameplay was fun, but maybe a bit to easy (used a little under 4 hours on it) compared to the other games. I like the environment, the atmosphere and the gameplay. It really feels like a Monkey Island game and is definitely worthy of the Monkey Island name
Comic Contest
Friday, April 24th, 2009Cryptic Studios announced a “Create a comic” contest for Startrek online, with the chance to win a beta key.
My chances are pretty much 0,003%, but still, here’s my contribution to the contest:
(click for larger version)