What I've been playing this week

Hello

Here we are, nearly at the end of June 2015. It's amazing how the weeks seem to fly by sometimes.

This week I've been mostly playing Hearthstone (iPad & PC), Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (WiiU) and Alphabear (Android).

In Hearthstone I've been playing Ranked mode to get myself up to level 20 for to win the monthly event card back. I've also been playing Tavern Brawl which was a new mode released about a month ago. This mode has a new rule set each week eg. adding bananas to each players hands, or giving you a strong deck based on the class you choose. This keeps the mode fresh and allows players to dip in and out of it as they want. For anybody interested in Hearthstone I heartily recommend the HearthCore Podcast. The hosts have a nice conversational style as well as a good knowledge of the game.

I have 140+ hours clocked up in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. It is easily my most played game of the last 2 years, if not ever (I had 100+ hours on Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii). I am still doing quests, upgrading my weapons and armour and trying to push on to the next level (this is just in the offline mode, I've still a lot more time to put into the online quests). A fantastic game that still has a good online following.

Alphabear is a cute looking word making game where you use bears to boost your points. I'm just playing the free version as it's an easy pick up and play for 5 mins a couple of times a day.

I had hoped to put some more time into LA Noire this week, but when I sat down on Saturday night and tried to launch it from Steam it would not work. After an hour or so of validating files, uninstalling and reinstalling, and checking the forums I gave up. During the week I looked online again for a solution and found some users saying to disable antivirus while playing. I tested it last night and it does actually work. Not ideal but at least the game is working again. I'll hopefully spend a few hours in LA this weekend.

If you are reading this please leave a comment and let me know what you've been playing.

Stuart