TOG - The Older Gamers

Sitting here with my 2yr old daughter reclining on my knee. She's chomping through apple slices and watching Peppa Pig on one half of the screen while I'm browsing TOG on the other half.

Perfect Saturday morning.

`Zee

I know, not a revelation by any stretch but today I experienced it first-hand. How? I hear you asking. Well, it all started about four months ago when I bought an Xbox 360...

I was excited, shiny new Xbox all hooked up, ready to go and only needing an Xbox Live Gold account to finish it off. While US$10.95 sounds like a small sum, I have an understanding with my wife that I can only have one online subscription of any kind at one time. Seeing how I kicked WoW to the kerb a while back,...

She's nine months old!

Yesterday I picked them up from the hospital and brought them home, and today I wake up to realise she's nearly 1! I can deny it all I want but she's like a mushroom after a summer rain.

Every day I get home from work and she's doing something else I hadn't seen her do before. When we play, she climbs all over me, crawls everywhere and tries to eat everything!...shoes, rug, couch or toys, nothing escapes her. Feeding her is the funniest thing...

For the past few months my work has been quite busy and due to the travel time to and fro work, I leave when the sun is up and get home. This means I get home just in time to bath my daughter and spend 10-15mins with her before she feeds and goes to sleep. If I'm lucky, when I wake up in the morning, she wakes up at the same time and I get maybe 5mins with her.
During the weekend, I've been trying to relax as much as I can after a long week and I've been taking quite a bit of time away...

The Setting
I play Call of Duty 4 as my main game, and I play in two squads, Wotan in the GameArena Ladder and Zeus in the CyberGamer Ladder. Last night I played in a CG ladder match with Zeus in which we were defending our spot on the ladder. The challenger was evo. a clan that we scrim against on a somewhat regular basis - they win more than they lose against us.

CG Ladder is Search & Destroy style, with 5 players on each team, where one team has to plant the bomb and...