Slashdot Cyanogenmod 10.1 After owning my N1 for a few weeks I’d rooted it amd installed Cyanogenmod. I loved what it allowed me to do with my phone, beyond the generic Android OS. By N1 has been boxed up for a couple of months… well actually used as a dev test phone for a work app, and I’m more than happy with 4.2.2 on the N4 and N7. If I…
life is but a Journey
11/05/2013
[rating:2] Bonza! I’ve finally acquired a copy of Journey this evening. I’m enjoying the space, and the non verbal narrative reminds me of the games (ICO, Shadow of the Colossus ) that brought me to the PS3 I’m really absorbed by the look and feel… but it just doesn’t hold my attention. Or maybe not if I take this critical response at face value 1/4To3 Update I’m finding the lack…
CoolROM.com Mobile
11/05/2013
http://m.coolrom.com/ I’ve been hunting for ROMs on my Android, a friend showing a box shot of the retro shoot ’em up classic Super Fantasy Zone motivated me 🙂 This site is a fantastic repository of classic titles that deserve to be replayed and not fall into obscurity [rating:4]
Lost with Lara
09/05/2013
[rating:4.5] if you like video games, you will enjoy this. As a long time avid gamer it seems crazy that I’ve never played a Tomb Raider title before. I understand the premise, think I may have even watched a film, not that it was memorable. But in a way I’m quite happy to have left it until now, this Square Enix version of Tomb Raider is as close to a…
A far cry beyond the sequel
08/05/2013
[rating:3] I played the last Far Cry iteration on the 360, or rather I started it, and was bored easily. I’m only an hour or so into the third version on the PS3, and am enjoying it… come back soon to see if that lasts
PS3 formatted all saved data
06/05/2013
Bugger, I must not have turned off my PS3 correctly last night! I booted it up this evening to try Far Cry 3, Rogero wouldn’t load, apparently corrupted files. No more MultiMan!… time to upgrade to MM 4.14 me thinks, bugger I’ve lost all of my saves though. [rating:0]
Terraria
04/05/2013
[rating:2] As a break from GTA, I’ve installed Terraria on the PS3. I’m working my way through the tutorial, I can see this taking up a big chunk of my gaming time. Off to see if I can play it on Android 🙂 Edit: Apparently you can!
5 year old game still looking good
04/05/2013
[rating:4] As a big fan of Rockstar I am getting excited with the new screen shots of GTA V, and thought I’d visit Liberty City again to reminisce. I picked up a US xbox 360, before the PAL machines were affordable, so I journeyed through NiKo’s story on a NTSC version of the game. That box red ringed a long time ago, and I didn’t want to buy another copy…
Final Fantasy XIV to launch in summer
02/05/2013
I finally have a PC that I can play MMOs on. Eve wasn’t for me, I’ve loved each Final Fantasy game I’ve played more than the last… let’s just hope the price is right. gameplanet.co.nz Final-Fantasy XIV to launch in summer
I was having a trip down memory lane, listening to some old songs that occupied the airwaves, when I was back at school. After a bit of S’Express and Technotronic, I came across this timeless classic by the JAMS aka KLF Then that reminded me of the book they wrote: The Manual: (how to Have a Number One the Easy Way) This unparalleled expose of the pop-music scene is the…
beginners bash scripts
30/04/2013
Bash Scripting useful Unix commands Destructions of where to save a shell file to call it from a command line did I mention I was a n00b at shell scripts 🙂 Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 50 Linux Commands And here’s my first simple script ‘alter’, saved in my /bin directory. #!/bin/bash FILENAME=”$1″ sudo cp ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.old gksudo gedit ${FILENAME} From the CLI type: alter filename a copy is then taken of…
spoiled for choice with choice titles
27/04/2013
After finally completing Bioshock Infinite (wow the plot explanation of the ending!), I’ve been spoiled for choice, here’s an update of new games (for me) I’ve been playing, all on the PS3. Injustice: Gods Among Us [rating:3] Nice Mortal komat based engine, with DC heros and villans. Love the balance between simple and advanced… easy to exeute the moves, a challenge to string a combo together. Best story in a…
Mohammed Ali interview
21/04/2013
The fight is ok, Ali played Forman big time, would have loved to have heard what Ali was whispering in his ear 🙂 There’s an amazing interview with Ali after the Foreman fight, worth watching.
Skyrim: Easy way beyond level 81
21/04/2013
Reading on the Bethesda Blog that the Skyrim team were moving on to their next projects, but there was one last gift to the community, Skyrim patch 1.9 [rating:4] Heaps of bug fixes, but it was the new features that motivated me to load up my last save point: Legendary difficulty setting Legendary Skills – Skills of 100 can be made Legendary. This will reset the skill to 15, return…
Authorization
21/04/2013
http://xkcd.com/1200/ I post xkcd far too often, but this one made me smile more than most 🙂
my largest Ingress field to date
20/04/2013
Link established! Field established +4117 mind units & with the same click level’d up to 4
Ubuntu Gnome
20/04/2013
[rating:4] I’ve been using linux for quite a few years, and Ubuntu has been my main distro, gnome my favourite flavour. Like any relationship we’ve had our ups and downs. It didn’t start off well, setting up wi-fi was a nightmare in the early days, but then along came Unity. Now don’t get me wrong, Unity isn’t a game stopper, I’m using it now on 12.04 as I find it…
it’s football not soccer
15/04/2013
… that’s why the authoritative body is named FIFA [Fédération Internationale de Football Association] I haven’t played a footy game in years, think Konami‘s PES 4 was the last one that held my attention, mainly due to the league we had at lunchtime on an XBOX 🙂 Green Street Hooligans, was recommenced to me a while ago. A cool story of the two big London Firms, West Ham and Millwall,…
blister pack solution
14/04/2013
Genius, no more deep cuts for me when trying to open new toys, knew I’d heard of some safe method 🙂