onsdag 26 februari 2014

Steam: Get the game "Thief Gold" for free!

The Japanese video game company Square Enix is currently having a promotion where gamers can download a free copy of Thief Gold (1999's updated version of the 1998 game Thief: The Dark Project by Looking Glass Studios) for Steam.

You can read more about how to get it on this link.

I can promise you that the instructions work. I'm currently downloading the game as I write this post.

A big thanks to you Razorcif at Loot Palace, for sharing this information with us!

söndag 23 februari 2014

Melodifestivalen 2014: Deltävling 4 i Örnsköldsvik

Kommer ni ihåg att jag skrev att deltävling 3 var den svagaste i årets "Mello"? Jag tar tillbaka det påståendet. Gårdagens deltävling tar hem detta "pris".

Jag såg fram emot Alcazars och Linda Bengtzings bidrag. Tyvärr åkte Bengtzing ut och Alcazars Blame it on the Disco känns bara som en ny variant av Stay the Night (Alcazars bidrag till Melodifestivalen 2009). Och personligen tycker jag att Stay the Night (som ni kan lyssna på i YouTube-klippet nedan) låter mycket bättre.


Humorn då? Tråkigt som vanligt. Jag kunde inte låta bli att le när jag såg Vargmust framföra deltävlingens "nionde bidrag". Annars var det inte mycket bättre än så.

lördag 22 februari 2014

The blog of Lord Greenleaf got 1000 pageviews!

On January 25th 2014, I started The blog of Lord Greenleaf.

Today, February 22th, I got more than 1000 pageviews thanks to EasyHits4U (EH4U)! Thank you EasyHits4U and thank you - both EH4U and non-EH4U visitors - for making this possible!

I got more than 1000 pageviews!

My blog gets approximately 20 visits a day. While it's not much, it's more than enough for me.

If you have a website, a blog or an online service of your own, I really recommend the traffic exchange service EasyHits4U. Although it does take time to browse through other websites in order to get visitors, it really pays off.

I like EH4U since it has a 1:1 exchange ratio (= visit a website, get a visitor) and you also get a $0.30 bonus for browsing through 1000 websites. If you want to earn more money than that, then you'll need referrals.

One other great thing with EH4U is that the service tracks how many people have visited your website. You can also create splash pages (simple webpages with little information about a service, website etc.) to promote it. As a free member, you can promote up to 15 websites (or blogs etc.) in total.

Please note that EH4U isn't meant to be a "Bux" site where you can earn money. EH4U is a traffic exchange after all!

onsdag 19 februari 2014

Create your free logo at Logotype Creator

Do you have a company, an association or a website where you need a logotype? Then Logotype Creator is the service you need.

It's very simple: First you type the name of your company etc. and then press the button "Generate Logo Now!" You'll now get a selection of different logos created for you. Some of them are free while others cost money.

This is my free generated logo:


The icon consists of many PacMan-like shapes which symbolise my great interests in games - something which this blog is mostly about. The font colour is green to match the green leaves. The font used for this logo is meant to match the "natural handwriting" which symbolises my opinions.

You should give Logotype Creator a try. It's very useful!

söndag 16 februari 2014

Invitation & referral codes

Are you interested in a game but need to find an invitation code to give you a small headstart? Then hopefully this post will help you. I'll update it continuously so please visit it from time to time!

Latest update: 16/02/14

Games (In alphabetical order):


Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances (Web, online strategy)
- https://www.tiberiumalliances.com/ref/TScZVjM8BMEpTaVZu3jyhg

Guardian Cross (iOS, online fantasy trading card game)
- DT47351

Infinite Crisis (PC, MOBA)
- https://www.infinitecrisis.com/en/account/registration?utm_source=98e10981-5500-e311-a320-bc305b234d58&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=IC_RAF
[Once you register, please follow the instructions thoroughly.]


Guardian Cross: Got two new Limited 5* cards!

This weekend I got two new Limited 5* cards in Guardian Cross!

The first one is Mighty Valentine Specter which I won in the Coliseum (PvP-battles):

The information page about Mighty Valentine Specter. (Screenshot taken by me)

The second one is Berith which I got by logging in 15 days in a row.

The information page about Berith. (Screenshot taken by me)

Like I wrote earlier, Guardian Cross is a great and easy online trading card game for Android- and iOS-devices, made by the Japanese video game company Square-Enix.

I love it very much since the illustrations are very beautiful, it's a Final Fantasy spin off, it reminds of Pokémon and it's very easy to play. If you're searching for a great game for your mobile phone, I highly reommend it.

Here is an invitation code (sadly only for the iOS-version) to get you started: DT47351

With the code you get a Super Rare card. I hope you'll enjoy the game as much as I do!

Here's a gameplay video of Guardian Cross:




Try The Witcher 1 & 2 for free this weekend

Another weekend and another game which Steam lets its users try for free. This time we get to try the fantasy games The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, based on the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowki's series of fantasy short stories.

Normally I would try a Steam-game during the weekend and then review it in one of my "A weekend with..." posts, but this time I won't play any of the games. The reason is the large game size. The first game alone is about 16 GB which would approximately take 20 hours for me to download. And I can't just let my computer "go on" 24 hours a day, can I?

Here's the official trailer of the first game:




Melodifestivalen 2014: Deltävling 3 i Göteborg

Så... Vad tycker ni? Min favoritlåt Red (som framfördes av gruppen Eko) gick inte vidare till final utan istället hamnade på åttonde plats. Egentligen tycker jag att den tredje deltävlingen i Göteborg är den svagaste hittills i årets Melodifestival.

Red var den enda låt som jag hejade på. Ledsen Shirley Clamp, men ditt bidrag i år är inte lika bra som Min kärlek (2004) eller Att älska dig (2005).

Och så humorn... Den är urusel. Om det inte vore för komikern Björn Gustafsson skulle jag inte orka titta igenom den alls.

Jag är bara tvungen att lägga till detta inlägg med ett YouTube-klipp av Att älska dig.




lördag 15 februari 2014

GOG.com: Download Dungeon Keeper for free! (less than 15 hours left)

GOG.com is an online game store where players can buy old & classic games mostly from the 90s, like Duke Nukem 3D (1996), the King's Quest series (1984-1998) and The Incredible Machine (1993).

This weekend, GOG (which is the abbreviation of Good Old Games), is offering the game Dungeon Keeper (1997) for free! Dungeon Keeper also exists as a free-to-play mobile game for iOS and Android. But the mobile game has been heavily criticised because it's not faithful to the original and it uses too much micro-transactions. So if you want to play Dungeon Keeper as it was meant to be played, this is a golden opportunity to do so.

Since there are many people who want to get a free copy, you don't actually get a direct download link on GOG. After you have registered your copy, GOG will notify you when you can download it.

But even if you (or I) don't manage to get Dungeon Keeper, I still recommend GOG. When you start an account at GOG the first time, you'll get some PC games for free. My favourite is the 1994-game Beneath a Steel Sky which I'm playing at the moment. The game is created by the company behind the famous Broken Sword-series.

If you can't or don't find the classic game of your choice, you can always request it. If there are enough votes on your game, GOG will consider selling it. I think this is a great way to stay legal since it's difficult to know if abandonware is legal or not.

So hurry! You have less than 15 hours left to get your free copy of Dungeon Keeper! Get it now at GOG.com!


No, when you read this post, you have less than 15 hours left
to get your free copy of Dungeon Keeper on GOG.com.

måndag 10 februari 2014

Injustice: I finally got John Stewart!

At last, after replaying all of the four John Stewart Green Lantern Challenges and completing the fifth and final one, I won a golden John Stewart Green Lantern card! Now that I have acquired it, I can always return to the in-game shop later to buy extra cards in order to enhance John. One extra John Stewart-card costs 165,000 Power Credits (the in-game currency). If I still had time to replay all of the challenges again, this time with a higher difficulty, I could have gotten one more card.

Being a golden card, John Stewart is the strongest of all Green Lantern cards in Injustice: Gods Among Us for mobile phones. His second special attack - "Parallell Nature" - is a very powerful attack which is a combination of rapid swiping and aiming compared to other characters' special attacks (which are either activated by swiping, tapping or aiming on the touch screen).

If any of the characters in the player's team get very low health - they are protected by John's Emergency Barrier which makes them invulnarable for 8 seconds. This is very useful if both the opponent and the active hero/villain have low health. Sadly each character can only get benefit by the Emergency Barrier once per match.

If I have any complaints about the card, it would be that John Stewart isn't voiced by Phil LaMarr - his original voice actor from the Justice League animated series and the original console version of Injustice. Instead John is voiced by Adam Baldwin, the same actor who lends his voice to Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

Lantern John Stewart as seen in the shop. (Click to enlarge)

Updates to the blog

As some of you may have discovered last week, I've added Tags / Etiketter to the right of the blog. That, in order for you to browse through my posts easier and re-read the posts of your choice.

"Tags / Etiketter" work like Categories. So during the weekend I've browsed through all of the posts and re-tagged them. You'll discover that many of the posts belong to more categories than one.

I believe I'll update "Tags / Etiketter" continuously since there are still some topics which I haven't brought up yet on the blog. Food for example.

A weekend with Borderlands 2

During the weekend (07/02/14-09/02/14), Steam lets its members try Borderlands 2 (by 2K Games) for free. I found out about it during late Saturday, and after waiting more than 8 hours to download and install the game I finally got a chance to try it out - even if I could only play it for 1-2 hours.

In short, Borderlands 2 can be described as a FPS (= first person shooter) game with RPG-elements (= role playing game). 4 players can play together online in the story campaign.

Borderlands 2 takes place on a planet called Pandora, where a Vault (with alien technology) has been opened and a valuable mineral has been spread all over the planet as a result. The Hyperion Corporation, lead by the antagonist Handsome Jack, tries to find this mineral and "civilise" the savage planet with an iron fist. Many people travel to the planet in order to find the mineral, and they're hence called "Vault Hunters".

The story starts with four Vault Hunters travel on a train which gets destroyed by the Handsome Jack. Left for dead, the protagonists are found by a robot named Claptrap who decides to lead them to the city of Sanctuary. In the city, an anti-Hyperion resistance group is gathering to revolt against the terror of Handsome Jack. The voyage to Sanctuary isn't easy since the route is filled with bandits and mercenaries working for Handsome Jack, and monstrous beasts.

The graphics are cell-shaded, so it feels like watching a cartoon. I don't know how to comment on the humour presented in the game, but the game - due to its violent content (among others) - is definitely not recommended for younger players (compared to Sanctum 2). The ESRB gave it an M-rating.

Similar to a MMORPG (= massive multiplayer online role playing game), the player can't really "die" during the missions. Once defeated, the player gets a chance to recover by defeating an opponent. If the player fails to do so, he/she will respawn at a spawn point spread across the level he/she is in.

Borderlands 2 offers the player a chance to explore Pandora, something which I appreciate a lot. But I'm not into games with M-ratings so I might not buy it for a while.

Here is the "Doomsday" trailer of the game:




söndag 9 februari 2014

Tankar om Melodifestivalens andra deltävling i Linköping, 8 februari 2014

Igår under Melodifestivalens andra deltävling gick Sanna Nielsen och gruppen Panetoz vidare till final, medan Martin Stenmarck och JEM gick till Andra Chansen.

Personligen hade jag hoppats på att Martin Stenmarck skulle gå vidare till final. Tyvärr Panetoz, er låt "Efter solsken" är inget för mig. Men grattis ändå!

Angående programledarna tycker jag mer om deras presentation under denna deltävling än förra veckans. Jag hoppas att de fortsätter på detta sätt under resten av musiktävlingen.

lördag 8 februari 2014

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi

The Winter Olympics started yesterday, on February 7th 2014, in Sochi. Did you watch the Opening Ceremony? While the Ceremony was epic, one thing caught many viewers' attention, including mine:


Unfortunately I can't post any images from the Winter Olympics since I don't have the copyright and the permission to do so. Instead I'll use various YouTube-clips taken from the sporting event. There may be a risk that the video clip above will be removed from YouTube. I used another video before to show the stubborn Olympic ring, but that one was removed.

By the way, I earned $0.30 after visiting 1000 sites in total with EasyHits4U yesterday. It's nothing really. It's just a fun bonus.

tisdag 4 februari 2014

Guardian Cross: Won Great Impundulu!

Those who have visited my lenses on Squidoo may remember my article about Square-Enix's trading card game, Guardian Cross. I'll upload a new review about the game later on this blog, but now to the news of today.

As usual I participated in the game's Elite Coliseum last week. I got a B+ rating and won a Bronze Limited 5* card: Great Impundulu!


The message where I learn of my Coliseum Reward.

Great Impundulu's information page.

Guardian Cross is one of the few free-to-play mobile games which I really like. I've played the game almost everyday since late 2012. I like it very much since it's easy to play and other players won't attack you unless you participate in the Coliseum (player vs player battles). Not only that, a few Final Fantasy bosses appear in the game as Guardians (the cards which you must catch and use during battles).

If you're interested in Guardian Cross, here's my invitation code: DT47351 (iOS only)

The invitation code can only be used once when you create an account the first time (in order to play the game). Using the code will give you a super rare 4* card. I really recommend you to give Guardian Cross a chance. If you don't like it, you can always remove it easily.

söndag 2 februari 2014

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter should have married Hermione Granger?

Alright... It seems J.K. Rowling wanted Harry and Hermione to become a couple and get married at the end of the Harry Potter book series, according to the articles found on Swedish Metro and Toronto Sun.

To be honest with you, I still don't like how everything turned out in the end. Although Voldemort was finally destroyed in the final book, many characters who I loved throught the series never made it to the end.

As for the shipping... When I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I thought Draco Malfoy was harbouring secret feelings for Hermione. And when it later turned out that he wasn't as bad as people thought he was, I did think of him getting married with Hermione. That was until J.K. Rowling denied that theory.

What do you think? Should Harry have married Hermione instead of Ginny? I honestly don't know. Ginny deserves Harry, but I'm not satisfied with how the stories developed in the later books. They somehow felt rushed.

Here's an interesting video with 101 reasons to why Harry and Hermione should be together. The video was made and uploaded on February 19th 2012, long before J.K. Rowling was interviewed by Emma Watson in the mentioned articles.


Breaking news: Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away

Philip Seymour Hoffman
in Cannes 2002 promoting
the movie Punch-Drunk
Love. (Wikimedia Commons)
Shortly after publishing my previous post about Green Lantern John Stewart, I read a notice on Swedish Metro that actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away. At the moment there's very little information about the actor's death, only that he was found in his flat in New York City.

I must admit that I haven't seen many of his movies. The first time I saw him was in Mission Impossible III where he played the villain Owen Davian. The last time I saw him was in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Rest in peace Mr. Hoffman, and thank you very much for the interpretation of your movie characters!

Here's the trailer to Mission Impossible III showing Owen Davian's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) threat against the protagonist Ethan Hunt:


Injustice: I have to restart John Stewart Green Lantern Challenge?!

Those of you who play the mobile versions of Injustice: Gods Among Us, know that NetherRealms every so often holds events where the players can win a rare golden card to his/her deck by completing five challenges.

The announcement of John Stewart Challange Mode in
the iOS-version of Injustice: Gods Among us.
During this event which started on January 23th 2014, the players can win a Green Lantern John Stewart golden card. I've played Injustice everyday and completed four of them. But today a dreadful thing happened: My progress has been deleted and now I have to replay the challenges all over again!

How could this happen? The only explanation I can think of is that the app must to be connected to the Internet at all times. So if you want to play the normal missions offline, turn the Internet off and start the game: You'll get the message that the "Previous challenge has expired". And when you turn the Internet back on, the app will think that you're starting a brand new session of the Challenges!

*Sigh* There's nothing else I can do but to replay the challenges again. I have reached the third challenge and I have only 7 days left. We'll see if I can make it in time. I can't play 24/7 everyday during the coming week can I?

Here is a YouTube-video showing the gameplay of Green Lantern John Stewart in the iOS-version of Injustice:


The blog of Lord Greenleaf - now on Google!

I joined Blogger on January 25th and submitted my blog to Bloggportalen.se on January 28th. Today I've discovered that my blog can be found on Google! Woohoo!


When I was active on Squidoo, my lenses weren't even visible on Google. I'm very glad that I joined Blogger. Squidoo is just a waste of time.

Remember folks, avoid Squidoo at all costs! That website is not worth your time and effort!

Sherlock Season 3 on SVT

After the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen in Malmö, SVT (Sveriges Television = Sweden's Television, the Swedish national public TV broadcaster) aired the first episode of Sherlock season 3 ("The Empty Hearse"). The rest of season 3 will be aired on February 8th and 15th at 9.30 PM Swedish time.


SVT has also reprised season 1 and 2 earlier during January. As usual I follow the series with great interest and look already forward to season 4.

lördag 1 februari 2014

Ellen Benediktson - en av finalisterna i Melodifestivalen 2014

Precis som alltid följde jag livesändningen av årets första deltävling av Melodifestivalen i Malmö. Vad kan jag säga? Det var väntat att Yohio skulle gå till final, men oväntat att Elena Paparizou skulle hamna i Andra chansen. Jag trodde att hon skulle bli Malmös andra finalist.

Den andra finalisten blev istället debutanten Ellen Benediktson med sin låt "Songbird". Jag anser att hon förtjänar den finalplatsen. Hon sjunger sin ballad med känsla. Tyvärr finns det ingen officiellt videoklipp av hennes sång på nätet ännu. Och även om det finns YouTube-klipp redan nu, kommer de säkert snabbt att tas bort av SVT.

Tyvärr är jag inte lika nöjd med årets programvärdar. Deras "humor" var inte alls rolig! Jag föredrar faktiskt Gina Dirawi och Danny Saucedo som programvärdar. Vem minns inte deras parodi på Prinsessan Madeleines och Chris O'Neills tillkännagivande om deras bröllop?



Happy New Year 2014 of the Horse!

To all of you who celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Horse, 恭喜發財 (Gongxi facai)!

Here is a famous Chinese New Year song, Cai Shen Dao. It's quite funny!


Sorry for the bad sound quality. But I couldn't any other better video.