02/04/2013
[rating:3] I have early memories of dropping 10p bits, the size of wagon wheels into old arcade machines as a child. before the days of Outrun or Afterburner, this was the dogs bollocks… although back then I doubt I knew what bollocks were & I’m sure I wasn’t au fe with The Sex Pistols. So today I found a PS3 remake of this nostalgic beauty. I doubted it would hold…
02/04/2013
[rating:3] I know I hadn’t always found R-Type as difficult as the Delta experience, & today I came across the predecessors R-Types (both 1 and 2!) So you can load in heaps of credits & then start the game, I like the arcade touch. The first thing that hit me was the siren noise, swear I’ve heard exactly the same on several phones at work 🙂 The game isn’t simple,…
01/04/2013
Memory fading? I read a cool blog entry by Gerard Campbell: Game Junkie this week: Are games harder or is it just me? The focus of it being that he had to downscale the difficulty from normal to easy to complete the latest Bioshock instalment. I tried to procure a copy of the said game today, with no luck; I came back with another sniper shooter… but that’s a different…
01/04/2013
Here’s the Guradian‘s yearly April fool. There have been some classic ones over the years, think the imagination has run a little dry? Or is it that people now look for them, that they seem obvious?
[rating:3.5] The title that’s taking up the bulk of my play time this weekend is quite a novelty, Solar 2. I’d never heard of the prequel, and only stumbled across this game by accident. I wish I had it last week for beach time. This game is based on physics, first you begin as a lump of rock floating in space, an asteroid. By slamming into surrounding rocks your rock…
31/03/2013
Happy long weekend people Mine has mostly entailed laying about the house, drinking duty free vodka & playing Solar2 and R-Type, sure Bill would approve 🙂
I’ve been on a (digital) desert island for a week, wi-fi was available, but I opted out. I had a cache of apps to play with, my SO had her Kindle Paper White, but I went old school, reading a tome she gifted me for chrimbo; Ben Elton’s, Two Brothers As a long time reader & fan of Elton, this was a treat. The signature style, as in a Tarantino…
22/03/2013
Google ditch Reader & give us Keep! More I think about it, the more I think that Reader was another fact finding exercise. On a happier note, I finished Portal 2 today. A masterpiece, and a great example that games don’t need to be epic length.
21/03/2013
I can’t believe this site: App BackUp Android apk files to download, how can they possibly get away with it?
17/03/2013
I’ve discovered Stackexchange gaming arquade, while searching for an Ingress invite… leaving a link here as I think I’ll be going back 🙂 Currently downloading an update for Portal 2, can’t believe I’ve left it so long to play as I really enjoyed the original. Update: wow up to chapter 6, can’t believe the game as been out for so long & I’ve managed to avoid spoilers 🙂 The humour…
16/03/2013
Not sure if Ingress is a data sourcing mechanism, or simply an augmented reality title waiting to happen? Whatever, I sent in my application for the beta today & it’s on Play Cool article describing it here: cnet On my smartphone, I was capturing portals and linking them to far-flung places; in the real world, I was a guy standing on a corner dodging people heading back to the office…
16/03/2013
At the arse end of the 90’s, before we had streaming tunes, certainly videos over the interwebs, this video was circulated on a PS1 magazine demo disk. On a 486, I was running with speeds of 48 kbps, if I was lucky, paying AOL by the minute, on top of the phone charges. I’d just been introduced to Gnapster – the fore runner of torrents. & a mate was selling…
16/03/2013
Insightful article fron the Guardina: Google Reader RSS feed aggregator to be retired News that service will be taken down sparks online petitions and protest site & on the back of this I’ve been having a look what my host gives me, in the way of RSS tools. I’ve been playing briefly with Simple Pie, here’s my most used feed from the Guardian Will you miss Google Reader? Guardian poll…
14/03/2013
I’ve recently picked up a Nexus 7, and am very impressed with with the experience. As fast as the Nexus 4, with more speed and graphic detail than you need. But what I’m really enjoying about this, is that I’m typing these words on an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, that I bought for my wife 2 years ago, has been little used, & I’ve envied since. So I get the performance…
09/03/2013
[rating:3] I have vague memories of playing a japanese copy of the original Okami. I had no instructions, not a clue what the game was about, and didn’t even know the real name of the game… think I was referring to it as ‘paint brush wolf’ at the time 🙂 Now I get to play the HD re-make! The addition of English subtitles reveals the godly ancient plot, that’s cool.…
07/03/2013
Saving this as I know I”ll need to refer to the mount instructions You are unable to just plug in your Nexus 4 in Linux but it is very easy to mount and unmount to move data to/from your sdcard. This is one option that will allow you to utilize Nautilis (or any other file browser) to copy files to/from your Nexus 4. This is written for Ubuntu, but should…
01/03/2013
Crysis 3, the greatest thing to come out of an EA studio for years. Yeah the game is impressive, but a digital manual? Genius!
24/02/2013
So there’s a popular meme, like many others, that is over used on the web [Redditors I’m looking at you]; One does not simply walk into Mordor. The phrase “One does not simply walk into Mordor” originates from a scene in Peter Jackson’s 2001 film adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.[1] In the scene, the Council of Elrond reveals that an evil ring…
24/02/2013
After the 4.2.2 update Swype no longer enters spaces between words in Chrome. Not a game spoiler, Google still searches for what I enter, it’s just not easy to read.
23/02/2013
You’ve gotta I can’t believe I haven’t seen or heard of this before! Although I don’t truthfully believe that I’m the target demographic 🙂 Here’s the intro of the Japanese Parappa the Rapper TV anime (is it anime cartoon, or just anime?) I’m off to look for the series with sub-titles Found it…