Football Manager 2013 is the newest version of the most beloved manager game in the world. Here you can take controll of your favorite club, or you can start with an unkown team and lead them to glory.

The series tough started out beeing called Championship Manager and the first version of the game was developed in the bedroom by two brothers called Paul and Oliver Collyer in 1992. Electronic Arts were offered to publish the game but the rejected the offer, something they probably regret today. Because after a slow but steady start the game exploded in popularity and were in a few years it became one of the fastest selling pc games. 

Since they were rejected by E.A the brothers started their own company called Sports Interactive but was published under Eidos and have had tremendous succes. The game is season based and it comes a new game each year following the previous season in the football world. But in 03/04 season Sports Interactive were split from Eidos, that in my opinion happend because the game was becoming to popular and both studios wanted higher royalties for the game. So it all accumulated in Sports Interactive leaving Eidos and joined the ranks under SEGA. 

This ment that they had to leave the name Championship Manager behind so in 2005 Football Manager was born. And they have not looked back creating and adding more new features each year, the game has exploded in popularity even tough Eidos untill last year came out with versions of CM. FM won the battle of the fans and have mounted itself in the top of the manager based games ladder. 

But the new game Football Manager 2013 have just come out for about a month and it is reciewing glowing reviews from many different respected game magazines all over the world. 
It got almost the highest grade in Dagbladet and got the highest grade in VG:

http://www.pressfire.no/anmeldelser/PC/6042/Football-Manager-2013
http://www.vg.no/spill/artikkel.php?artid=10047982

And it is justified I have only bagged about 20-30 hours of gameplay and boy it is like candy for a football fan like me. I am currently controlling Rosenborg in the Norwegian Premier Division and I am leading the table after 12 played games. Bagging in 8 victories 3 Draws and 1 loss i am in leading position to win the leauge, I hope! 

But all the new features are great and more intricate than ever, like for an example your assistant manager is getting smarter and he got more possibilities like in game feedback and he can help you with more tasks that you maby dont want to do. I am still not used to the new setup of the HUD because i am to used to the setup in FM12 and it is alot of changes to the game HUD so even for a seasoned player like me (who have played the series since CM98) it is a challenge to learn the new setup. But I do it with joy and great determination to lead my team to victory in the leauge. 

So if you want endless amount of fun playing a game who is challenging you every day go buy your version today and take over your favorite team and lead them to glory!

Steam link:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/207890/

Mount and blade Warband is my personal favourite game of all time!!

The basics of the game is about gathering companions and armies and uniting the lands under one ruler, YOU :), but there is alot more to do and experience than that.

But lets get down to the history of the game, the story takes place in the land of Calradia which are ruled by six kings in six different kingdoms. You got:
Kingdom of Swaidia - King Harlaus.
Kingdom of Nords - King Graveth.
Kingdom of Rhodoks - King Yaroglek.
Kingdom of Vaegirs - King Ragnar.
Khergit Khanate - Sanjar Khan
Sarranid Sultanate - Sultan Hakim

So the tension in the lands are fragile at best and it is constantly war between the kings to keep or to expand their kingdoms. And as u can see from the map bellow the world is massive.

You start the game creating a new adventurer who will start you on your epic journey to unite the lands of Calradia. So when you are setting up your charachter you will be given some choices of what you have been doing with your life growing up in Calradia. You will get choices from being a noble person to being a thief, so you choose what suits your needs. So when you have created your character you will be given a choice of which capitol you wish to start at (I always start in Praven, the capitol on Kingdom of Swaidia).

Then the game starts and you instantly get in a fight with a bandit in the capitol, when you have defeated your oppnent a merchant will aproach you and give you your first quest of the game. The first fight and first quest is the game's little tutorial of how the game works and operates. After you have completed this you can start exploring the world, but you need to be wary because there are alots of bandits, thiefs and deserters roaming the land picking fights with you if they feel that they can beat you. 

So a good start would be to gather a little army at your side, you can reqruit villagers from the many villages that are in Calradia. But you must also check the taverns in every major city because here you can find valuable companions that will follow you into battle and help you to succeed in your goal to unite all of the kingdoms. 

I almost always gather a strong enough army and just attack a kingdom and claiming a throne that way. But that is a scary way, because if you havent claimed rulership in Calradia all of the other kings will instantly see you as a huge threat and declare war on you and they will march with their armies on the town/castle you have taken. So to be safe start early to send out your companions to spread the word about your claimant wishes of a throne, and you will slow but steady increase your rulerships rights and the other kings will be more wary about starting a war with you then. And when you have become a king you can appoint your companions to Lords by giving them a village, castle or a town to rule. They will start gathering their own armies that will fight under your banner.

But there are a lot of ways to get money and power to build you up in this world. This is what is so intriguing about the game, the endless way's to get noticed and get power is still jawdropping to me and I must admit I have not tried all of the possibilities yet. But I play the game a lot and still finds new things to do even now. So what you choose to do is up to you, but this is a game that will haunt you for a long time, and the hours just flies by and suddenly the morning sun have gone and it is night :).

The game mechanics is also stunning, from running around on  the world map with a little person/horse to when you engage in a fight or enter a city, the game creates a beautiful world. Ok the graphics are not up to Skyrim or other beatiful worlds standard but what Mount and Blade got is for me a beatiful package of a game!. And the fight mechanics is one of a kind, horseback fighting or on foot were you meet on gigantic landscapes for epic battles vs huge armies (if you know how to set max people allowed in a fight in the M&B wordfile, this you can look up on the net). Great castle sieges were you must lead your men up either a ladder or a siegetower to engage the army on the walls of great castle's and city's who rain arrows down on you. It is simply mind blowing!!. 

There is also possibilities for multiplayer battles if you would like to trie that, I have not tried this as much but i know there is a ok sized community for it out there so check it out.

And it is a lots of great unofficial expansions ready to be downloaded, which creates even more to explore and experience. It is also a official expansion called Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars. But here you can use guns, and for me that destroys a little of the magic, but hey someone could find it fun.

There is of course alot to the game that I have not mentioned that is waiting for you to experience. So get on your horse and ride out into the great world of Calradia and become a legend.

If you would like to check it out:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/48700/

Is a indie puzzle game i came over in the summer when Steam had its summer sale.The basic story to the game is that machines have come to life and taken over the world and it is up to the creator and inventor of the machines to save the day.

I must say that I am really intrigued about how clever it was. I especially liked the passive use of the water minions to solve different problems on your way. So the 5-6 hours it takes to complete the game is worth every penny that I spent on it.

If you are interested go check it out on Steam in the link bellow. And enjoy :)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/108500/

Hey everyone! My name is Bjørn Andre B. Hansen and I am a student from Norway. I am currently studying to become a game programmer at Hamar University College, it is a three year bachelor and i am currntly considering taking a master aswell when i am done.

This is going to be my gameblog where i will post my thoughts and experiences about different games that i will try. So hang on and i will post three fast blog splashes because i have been kinda busy  in my other class at the moment so ive missed a couple of weeks worth of blogging :)