I’ve a couple of ideas for simple games, and after doing a little research decided on giving Unity a try as a platform, and C# as a language. I was reluctant at first as I found I could only get it to work on Windows… in hindsight I could have probably used a Virtual Box, or even Wine, but there’s still time to change. Python was my first choice, although…
Shadow of the Colossus PS4
17/07/2017
I’m a huge fan of this game! Perhaps the deciding factor why I picked up a PS3 was to play the last remastered version. The locations and bosses are recognisable in the video below, it looks honest to the original. Will I pick it up? Shit yeah Will it go on a pile with the other unfinished titles?
street fighter ii animated movie
15/07/2017
A must see for any Street Fighter fans, a great summary of the characters back story, much better than the original live action movie… less said about that the better 🙂 https://youtu.be/Pc8AiMZ9pNc
useful crontab intro
15/07/2017
An intro to crontab with some interesting examples: blog.davidsingleton.org
July 17 tech projects and games
13/07/2017
I downloaded Sleeping Dogs for the PS4, 10 bucks for an awesome GotY title. Think I actually prefer the shooting / combat mechanics to GTAV Still haven’t given The Z a test drive I’ve been playing with one of my Raspberry Pi’s; have an headless installation of Raspian running: Jessie Lite. Currently setup a twitter feed (GamerGeekNews) from some of my favourite sites and am looking for other ideas. Here’re…
My Dark Souls 3 journey continued over a few sessions failed fighting Yhorm many times… as with any From boss, decided to have a look around worked through the Profaned Capital, and managed to collect Elonora and the Court Sorcerer’s Staff was killed while freeing Karla, so no dark sorcery for me on this play through, so I spent a pale tongue focusing on Str over Int only fighting Yhorm after I…
Swiftpoint The Z
13/06/2017
Today I received an awesome long awaited new toy that I backed from Kickstarter, a shiny special launch edition Swiftpoint Award Winning mouse The Z Features: –Full RGB lighting and a small customizable OLED screen (see image) –Gyroscope/accelerometer provides for joystick-like use –Force-sensitive clicking that can be customized in the software –Button variations to suite your preference –Feet for “joystick” and “tilting” functions Extras: –Large mouse mat –Machined aluminum cable…
June 17 games to eat up my time
10/06/2017
I’m not finding much time to game or write about it, my new hobby is parenthood :), still 3 new PS4 games to occupy my scarce gaming time Tekken 7 [81% Metacritic], and found it pretty much same same, nothing novel excpet for Akuma. Crazy that I get to play more Shoryuken with Tekken loaded than Street Fighter V’s shit net code. Wipeout Omega Collection [85% Metacritic] to get nostalgic…
May 17 Gaming
22/05/2017
This past week I’ve picked up Just Cause 3 again, and I can’t remember why I stopped playing… although I guess it was due to other games turning up. I’m enjoying the mindless destruction and playable controls, not involved in the story or plot, just liberating an Italian coastal zone. I’ve been playing with TuxGuitar: Sourceforge free, open source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing,…
The creators of PaRappa The Rapper and Gitaroo Man combine forces to mastermind an all-new, story-led, rhythm-action adventure. PaRappa The Rapper is one of my favourite all time games, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve purchased it 🙂 I so hope this kickstarter gets off the ground, please support: project rap rabbit working title & check this link for my philosophy on how to live life by PaRappa…
Elite Dangerous PS4 June 27 Launch
22/05/2017
Elite Dangerous PS4 June 27 Launch Deets curtesy of Destructoid: As you were probably expecting, on PS4, the base game ($30) and the Horizons season pass ($30) will be separate purchases (unless you want to buy them bundled together, which will be an option). On the same day, Frontier is also putting out a physical Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Considering that package contains the…
Details here from Arstechnica of what went down By the time I’d logged on in my timezone everything had already happened, but this event was a big motivation for me to get my ship up to some sort of standard, or at least begin the journey. By grinding a few lucrative trade loops, a couple of rare circuits, and building up a relationship with the engineer Felicity Farseer, I’ve accumulated…
April 17 updates
09/05/2017
Both Android and Ubuntu received official updates today 🙂 Made a clean install of Ubuntu 17.04, everything works well out of the box. Then there’s the compulsory: 17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.04 Was surprised at the size of the Android security patch at over 300 MB to version 7.1.2! All was well until a week later my phone bricked; I pulled it out of my pocket and…
Horizon Zero Dawn
27/03/2017
Horizon Zero Dawn is a PS4-exclusive action role playing game developed by Guerrilla Games, creators of the Killzone franchise. As Horizon Zero Dawn’s main protagonist Aloy, a skilled hunter, explore a vibrant and lush world inhabited by mysterious mechanized creatures. Embark on an emotional journey to unravel mysteries of tribal societies, ancient artifacts and advanced technologies that will determine the fate of this planet, and of life itself Metacritic: Horizon…
Rocksmith 2014
27/03/2017
The fastest way to learn guitar is now better than ever. Join over three million people who have learned to play guitar with the award-winning Rocksmith® method. Plug any real guitar or bass with a 1/4 inch jack directly into your PC or Mac and you’ll learn to play in just 60 days. With Rocksmith you can learn everything from single notes to chords and advanced techniques, all at your…
Ghost Recon?: ? Wildlands
27/03/2017
Summary: Taking place a few years into the future, Ghost Recon Wildlands empowers players to lead a team of Ghosts, a four-player U.S. Elite Special Operations unit, on a covert mission to destroy the Santa Blanca drug cartel, an underworld force and growing global threat within Ubisoft’s imagining of a beautiful, yet dangerous Bolivia. With hundreds of villages and well-known landmarks, local legends and various factions and regions, players venture…
DigitalOcean pre installs Let’s Encrypt
07/03/2017
Awesome EFF’s Let’s Encrypt is pre-installed on the DigitalOcean droplet I’ve setup, A rating for the gamer-geek-news.com domain 🙂 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=gamer-geek-news.com Update: still working on the DNS, A rating for this one though 🙂 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.gamer-geek-news.com
So long and thanks for all the fish
07/03/2017
Been busy with games (Nioh) and Raspberyy Pi projects, and post deets when I have the opportunity, but currently my mission is moving 🙂 I’ve been with this host for sometime, with no issues, actully awesome customer service, but feel it’s time to play elsewhere. Currently testing DigitalOcean, although have also contemplated Google Cloud and Amazon. I’ve created a droplet on a LAMP stack with WordPress installed, I may look…
The Thargoids have arrived
19/01/2017
No posts lately as I heard that the Thargoids have arrived in Elite:Dangerous last Friday 🙂 How has this caused my hiatus? I rushed out and picked up a new graphics card (Radeon RX 480) and a 256 Gig Samsung SSD so I could play the game with ease. That’s when the trouble began! I found I couldn’t migrate Win7 easily off a partition on a 2TB HD to the…
from Ubuntu to Debian
06/01/2017
Yesterday I did something that I’ve been considering for a while; I burned my installation of Ubuntu and installed Debian. I’ve been a long time fan of Ubuntu, since before the Unity days, I stuck with the Canonical distro through the Amazon debacle, and the community as been awesome and supportive over the years, and I have loyalty to them. Although yesterday the KDE plasma installation started having issues, as ever with…