The Steam Holiday Sale has just finished and I’ve managed to resist the majority of their very tempting offers. Out of the hundreds of games that I browsed (including publisher and genre packs), I only succumbed to two games – one I’ve been meaning to get for a while and another on the spur of the moment after seeing Jeff buy it.

I’d been meaning to buy Terraria for a long time, especially after watching TotalBiscuit and OMFGCata‘s hilariously brilliant Terraria collaboration series on YouTube, and bought it the first time I saw it go on the Daily Deals section on Steam. It should have been around £10 but it was on sale for only £3 so I thought it was a decent bargin; that was, until two days later it was even further reduced to £1.50. This was slightly annoying as I essentially lost £3 (I bought another copy for Josh too) but the majority of it goes to the developers so I don’t particularly mind as they’ve made a fantastic game and deserve the cash. All in all, Terraria is a great game and I recommend it to everybody. I’ve made some fantastic architectural feats which I’ll post as soon as I get back to Cambridge in a couple of weeks.

DEFCON was another game I purchased during the sale. I haven’t played it yet but by the looks of it, the game’s going to be good. I’ve seen a few reviews before and it’s not exactly a new game (in fact, it’s around 5 years old) so I splashed out £1.50. To be honest, I’ll probably forget all about it when I get back to my PC in Cambridge and it’ll probably just sit on the Steam games shelf with the other 31 out of 64 games that I’ve bought but never played.

Christmas Presents Set Up

I’ve just got back to my university flat and have been working to set up my new equipment. I got a new monitor, which resulted in me re-arranging my whole room again to make them both fit on the desk:

I’ve had a few coffees from my new Dolce Gusto coffee machine and they’re fantastic! Here’s a snap of it in action:

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Happy New Year 2012!

Happy new year everybody! Just finished watching the London firework display and set our paper lanterns off into the field:

But of course, most of the lanterns didn’t make it off the ground very far and were left smouldering on the ground or burning away in the field at the back of the house.

Have a happy, healthy new year everybody!