I vaguely remember back in the 80’s as Rubik cubes were popular, the miners were striking, and Thatcher was invading the Falklands the height of technology was a keyring that would beep in response to a whistle. This technology has been brought into the modern age with a cool little blue-tooth device named a Tile From the site: Never lose anything again Are your things always running off? Not on…

SFV Story mode

09/07/2016

I’ve been so underwhelmed with Street Fighter V from launch, and the new characters plus story mode haven’t been enough to improve it. The game searching is far too long, and the lag is appalling. Something has gone wrong when a previous version is a more playable balanced game

Installing Overwatch on the PS4 ps4 first contact @ 90.61%, don’t know what to expect, except what I’ve picked up from the brief tutorial… here are class tips I found from the PSN blog Bastion Don’t stay deployed in Sentry Configuration in one location for too long, or your enemy will adapt and gain the upper hand. D.Va If you use Self-Destruct after activating Boosters, D.Va ejects—but her mech continues…

I’m 30 hours into Dark Souls 3 … my favourite From title to date! The game is as challenging as the other souls series, except the bonfires seem to be a little closer together… it’s still a fantastic feeling of accomplishment to unlock the next safe haven, the battles against the curious epic sized bosses are tough until you pick up the pattern of attack. although while ember’d up multiple…

Dark Souls 3

16/04/2016

Really must post more often, but family obligations and limited screen time get in the way… who am I kidding, I locked myself out with uber secure connections via Yubikey 🙂 So Dark Souls 3, the only title that’s credible to drag me away from Street Fighter V Wow, From have outdone themselves, finding a fine balance between challenge and playability, taking the essence from the earlier Dark Souls series,…

There were a couple of games I’d seen before; a teacher booting up a 5 1/4 inch disk of Elite being the most memorable [this is how long ago it was, none decimal measurements in fractions], on a BBC Micro However the first game I had the privilege of playing, and becoming a trial, was Thrust Thrust is a 1986 computer game released on most home computers. The perspective is…

So Street Fighter V has finally arrived, and I’ve been playing as many matches as possible since launch 🙂 So the important post launch questions: is it worthy of the pre-launch hype, is it an unfinished product, how does x platform matches work? Is Street Fighter V worthy of the pre-launch hype? It is no secret that I’m a long time Street Fighter fan boy, so my opinion here may…

While reading the wiki on Street Fighter iv, fact checking for my last post, I foiund this hidden gem unknown to me: Street Fighter iv Android version On January 5, 2012, a version of the game called Street Fighter IV HD was released for LG’s Android-powered Nitro HD and Optimus LTE phones.[46][14] On December 30, 2012, the exclusivity was dropped and the game was re-released on Google Play, this time…

The Nexus 5X has been my primary handset now for a couple of months, I am loving the speed of the device and 4G, but there’s something I’ve been missing, and that’s super user access. My history of rooting Nexus devices is documented on this blog back to the Nexus 1, and touch wood I haven’t had any issues in the past… except losing data once in a while. Rule…

There are more and more articles regarding Street Fighter 5 as we get closer to the February 16th launch date ‘Street Fighter V’ will feature the series’ first full story mode – engadget The free update will arrive in June and will bridge the gap between past ‘Street Fighter’ games. the new single-player campaign will be released in June as free downloadable content for anyone who buys Street Fighter V.…

Android Police: Facebook Is Adding Tor Support To The Android App. Engadget: Facebook on Android gives you privacy through Tor. The Guardian: Facebook adds Android app support for anonymity service Tor. So from what I understand all this will allow is FaceBook to be accessed via an onion domain. Is this a good / bad thing? Pro Given the FB user base size, this may encourage more individuals to use…

I’ve not been posting as often as I’d like due to the Android WordPress app not connecting… that’s another post. What I have been doing over the last couple of days is dropping any stories that I like to Google Keep. This has to be the one mobile app that I find the most useful; from shopping, book, movie, games, and to-do lists, to inspirations, notes, and shit I must…

Google’s new algorithm will make Chrome run much faster Chrome is about to load web pages a lot faster than you’ve experienced up until now. Thanks to a new compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google introduced last September, Chrome will be able to compress data up to 26 percent more than its existing compression engine, Zopfli, which is an impressive jump. Sounds cool, but will this allow for more Google…