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• Sign up for Extra Life 2010 – Be a gaming hero

  Over the last two years charity gaming event Extra Life has raised over $300,000 for Children’s Hospitals and the fight against Cancer. In 2009 my friend Alick told me all about the event and together with a small group of friends Team Meerkat was born. We’ve pledged to help out every year, and I’ll let you know how you can too.

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• RCT3 Custom Map: Pirate Cove

  Following right on from my first RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 custom map post yesterday, Fluffy Mountain, is the next map named Pirate Cove. The wedding and it’s associated planning have had some posts backed up, so now you get two new custom maps in one weekend!

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• RCT3 Custom Map: Fluffy Mountain

  Last year I published a number of Sim City 4 maps and while I love the game, the experience was waning on me. I jumped over to another of my all time faves Galactic Civilization II and posted some of my custom ship packs, then I set out to find more custom content I could make. That’s when I thought of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3.

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• Valve has taken an important first step, now we need to follow through

  This week Valve, the creator of the legendary Half Life series of games has been releasing some teaser images hinting that it’s Steam platform may soon be on the way to an Apple computer near you. This is an important first step for the gaming community as a whole, one in which we the gamers need to follow through on.

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• Follow Reishika Shepard’s progress

  It’s been a few days since the release of Mass Effect 2, my collectors edition and I are going to have some fun -when we can find the time, to play it through. I’ll be using xFire -much like I do with other games, to keep a visual log of my progress and events in the story.

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• New Eden Bay Area: custom Sim City 4 map

  This large custom region is built entirely from circles placed in shades of gray, together the effect ends up creating an almost real landscape.

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• Extra Life charity event this weekend

  This weekend is the Extra Life event. That’s right, it’s time for some 24 hour charity gaming action!

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• Galactic Civilization II: Ships of the Reileian Exchange

  After the fun I had creating the Battle Fleet Gothic set of Galactic Civilization II ships I decided to create a new civilization with it’s ship style based loosely on another quite popular Sci-Fi IP.

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• Galactic Civilization II: Battle Fleet Gothic

  Yes I still can’t get enough of GalCivII, it’s my favorite space strategy game right now and it was made better when they released version 2.0 late last year (2008). With that 2.0 update came a new standalone ship creator and it’s that creator I’ve been playing with again.

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• Galactic Civilization II 2.0 ship designer

  Wherein Paul plays with Galactic Civilization II 2.0 standalone ship designer. Shows off some designs and gets really happy.

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• Sim City 4 play session – Sunspear

  Including play session screen shots from my first custom map and musings on forgetting the best way to layout cities in Sim City 4.

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