22/11/2014
I love this time of year for the great releases, although I have no time to play all, let alone review them 🙂 Since COD: Advanced Warfare here’s what has been running on my machines: Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 I had romantic memories of when PES6 was by far the best football game on the XBOX. This crown is now well beyond Konomai’s reach, sitting snuggly on EA’s FIFA mullet.…
19/11/2014
Mozilla, EFF And Others Band Together To Provide Free SSL Certificates
07/11/2014
2 divergent launch titles for this weekend, and I have other geek projects that I want to devote time to… but first the games! So the first xbox title is the long awaited first in the new series, Activision’s Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. I loved the campaigns of Modern Warfare, more than Treyarch’s Black Ops, plus in this version I’ve heard there are Zombie’s. Call of Duty Advanced Warfare…
02/11/2014
My Hubsan x4 has been grounded for the past few weeks, as at full throttle only the front would lift from the ground. After shredding all of the propellers, after hairy landings on the deck, no real heavy impacts… except the one incident with the apple tree, I ordered more from Banggood. The free delivery won me over, plus they deliver, where Amazon won’t tread 🙂 The new props arrive;…
02/11/2014
The Internet Archive Now Lets You Play 900+ Classic Arcade Games In Your Browser Retro fans need this link: Internet Arcade A great source of all the classics, and so much easier than downloading each MAME ROM 🙂 The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games…
02/11/2014
After a day of racing cars around virtual tracks on the xbox I needed something a little different, so today I have the pleasure of playing 2 diverse Japanese titles: Natural Doctrine Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn I’ve heard nothing of either, so looking forward to hopefully a pleasant surprise. Natural Doctrine cheesy lines galore, with disjointed conversations, and not a clue what the plot may be with usual JPRG character…
01/11/2014
Grid Autosport Black edition vs Forza Horizon 2 No comparison – that’s the brutal truth when pitting Grid Autosport against its rivals. It boasts a polish, an attention to the raw thrill of competitive motorsport, that elevates it above the merely flashy contenders. This isn’t blind loyalty speaking; I cut my teeth on racing sims, from TOCA’s legendary circuits to Forza’s early bids for Gran Turismo’s crown. Even spending Christmas…
29/10/2014
I’m a couple of chapters into Capcom’s Remember Me – an urban cyberpunk Lara Croft adventure, movie like FMV, William Gibson’s tomorrow’s technology, combat of Batman and Assassins Creed, with its own touch of remix… and then we have the cool finishing move ‘overloads’, that reminds me of Bayonetta’s wicked weave Modern day Paris is stunning, reminiscent of a Final Fantasy city blended with Hong Kong; the only thing it’s…
27/10/2014
While I’m enjoying a kick about, and been scared the shit out of, 2 more xbox 360 games have been passed onto me today, that I’ve been meaning to pick up for a while: Remember Me The place is Neo-Paris. The year is 2084. Personal memories are now digitised, bought, sold and traded. The last vestiges of privacy and intimacy have been swept away in what appears to be a…
26/10/2014
So after a few gym sessions last week, yoga this morning, I deserve some gaming time, and I’ve a few new varied titles to play with… including my back catalogue, I’ve been ticking off Watch Dogs missions. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Learn the story behind Borderlands 2’s villain, Handsome Jack, and his ascendance to power in this new game in the Borderlands series. Taking place between the original Borderlands and Borderlands…
26/10/2014
I had a crisis yesterday, spilling water over my workbench; saved the consoles and PC first, and my cheap keyboard took the brunt of it, showing its dislike for water by having continuous Ctrl. So today went shopping for a new input device. I was at first considering a decent mechanical keyboard, given the time I spend tapping away. Pros love the sound of the clicks responsive nature of the…
18/10/2014
Time to finish off some stories, before the pre xmas launch fest. There are a few on my list, I may not get through them all this weekend 😉 Here’s my list, in no particular order: Wolfenstein: The New Order An amazing story with cool nods back to the original, everything a FPS should be, with no gimmicks. [Rating: 4.5] The Last of Us Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Valiant…
16/10/2014
Yes, even the 2012 Nexus 7 will get updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop Android Central I hardly use my N7 online, so never seen much of a danger of using OFW. Fingers crossed there could be perfomace improvements, worse case I root it and drop on the quickest lit-weight CFW I can find
Since there is no longer a toggle button, users with only breadcrumbs will need to hit Ctrl+L to show the text-entry address bar (and Esc to go back to breadcrumbs) You can also hit the / key and it will show the address bar, but empty (well, except for it beginning with “/“), ready for you to type or paste an address (so if you want to copy the address…
14/10/2014
With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple…
13/10/2014
I only got into 0AD a couple of months back, and here’s a serious free update 🙂 Full details here: webupd8 Notable changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 17 “Quercus”: Major Core Combat Rebalance: if you send only one unit type to battle, it fares poorly against regiments of the same size that mix more than one type, e.g. melee and ranged units; technologies as a whole have been made more…
13/10/2014
I really enjoyed the previous installment of Far Cry. One of the few games, together with GTAV, and Tomb Raider, that have been compelliing enough to complete the story lines. Saying that, I’m making good progress into Diablo III, and I must go back and finish The Last of US, and Wolfenstein… anyway I digress, allow me to introduce you to Kyrat An introduction to the Lowlands of Kyrat. This…
06/10/2014
I’ve been happily using Cyanogenmod, without GAPPS, on my phone for quite a few months now, and have been more than happy finding none Google alternatives. That is until the last updates on my N7, and Google Voice looks to have appeared 🙂 I’ve been so envious of our cousins across the pond, who have had access for years, now the choice looks to be mine! I was so excited…
06/10/2014
I was playing about installing yet another Linux flavour via VirtualBox; CrunchBang. I’ve been a fan of Slackware for a while, so thought I’d give it a try. It was a pleasent surprise, it worked well from boot, with a nice installation script that gives the option to install all of the bells and whistles extras. It’s feels light, but in a lumbuntu sort of way; not short on functions,…