Land Of Chaos Online (LOCO)

Today a friend of mine (Ana) convinced me to start playing this game with her... I used to play other alaplaya games with her and a group of friends, such as Fantasy Tennis (something like a tennis version of Pangya) or Florencia (MMORPG)... 

This time, its a new game called Land of Chaos Online (LOCO), a RTS (Real Time Strategy), the objective is to destroy the enemy's base before they destroy yours... It is very confusing at first (I haven't got the hang of it yet) because of the enormous ammount of possibilities. However, it is a very beautiful game and you can chose from different characters to fight with and its free. Here is its trailer:

Alan Wake, Scribblenauts, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

3 new games arrived at home yesterday! Alan wake, that I have been trying to buy since its launch in May, but hasn't been able to (many other games coming out, then it got out of stock, etc,), Scribblenauts, which I found very interesting and fun the first time I played it, but never bought it... Untill now! The last one is Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, another game from the Ace Attorney series, now featuring Miles Edgeworth!

In darkness, fight with light

When the wife of the best-selling writer Alan Wake disappears on their vacation, his search turns up pages from a thriller he doesn’t even remember writing. A dark presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save the woman he loves. 

Part action game, part psychological thriller, Alan Wake is a pulse-pounding thrill ride.

Gamespot: 8.5

IGN: 9.0

GameTrailers: 8.6

Metacritic: 8.3

What will you write?

Help Maxwell reach the Starite by solving each challenge. Write any object you can think of and watch it come to life. Try another word and watch an entirely different solution unfold. With your stylus and imagination, the possibilities are endless!

Gamespot: 8.0

IGN: 8.7

GameTrailers: 8.6

Metacritic: 7.9

The truth shall set you free!

Fill the shoes of famous prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, as Ace Attorney moves from the courtroom to the crime scene! Investigate, collect evidence, and solve intricately tangled mysteries to reach the ultimate truth. 

Gamespot: 8.0

IGN: 7.6

GameTrailers: 8.6

Metacritic: 7.8

Raptr and Gamespot

The newest page from my blog: Play and Believe!

As I have done with the others, I would like to start this one talking about the social website specialized in games... This one I found more difficult to decide. There are a lot of them, but then I could after a while choose for one two sites... They are Gamespot and Raptr.

The only reason I keep using both of them is because they are complementary... In both you can have your games listings, of course, as well as your profile page, your friends, blog, etc. You can rate your games, review them, and so on. However, I find that Gamespot has a bigger archieve of games, news interviews, etc. So whenever I am looking for information reaggarding games is where I look for... It has an easy search engine... Moreover, Gamespot has its own achievements and levels, that you earn or level up as you use the website and its properties, which let's face it, is pretty nice, isn't it?. On the other hand, Raptr is the only one that links with your gaming IDs live, and for that, it links better with Facebook and Twitter, updating automatically (if you wish) your statuses as "playing XX" if you are connected, for example to Live when playing in your Xbox or to Steam when playing in your PC. Through this same feature it is able to automatically add a new game from these platforms as you play them, not being necessary to manually add these new games to your listings... The final conclusion as to why using both: they connect to each other. Gamespot is only able to import your achievements listing from every platform that is not the Gamespot itself (Xbox, PC, etc.) by searching through your Raptr profile. Both have iPhone applicatives, but in Gamespot's there is only its game database and not your profile... 

Don't try to decide which one to use. Use both. XD

PS: I know there are several other good gaming websites such as IGN (closer do Gamespot) and Playfire (closer to Raptr). But then again, I tried using all of them, and I still go with the Gamespot-Raptr combo. They are the only ones that connect with each other and are completed by doing so...