No Ingress invite?
04/04/2013
Neither has Hitler http://youtu.be/z_H1MZDDJoM
[rating:4] A kindly gent passed on to me an Ingress invite last night 🙂 I’m really stoked about it, and have had fun today hacking a few portals. I still think Ingress is one big fact finding tool for Google, although I’m just a tiny fish in a global pond, I’m still a little cautious… crazy eh? Ingress is an augmented reality massively multiplayer online video game created by NianticLabs@Google,…
favourite verticle scroller
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…
retro shoot-em ups
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,…
games getting more difficult?
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…
Guardian fools Goggles
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?
Street Fighter iv updates
01/04/2013
[rating:4] Article at SRK tells how over the next month Capcom are requesting suggestions from the SF gaming community, on changes they can make to characters and game play on the next game update. I hope they’re giving this one away free & we son’t have to shell out for a 4th revision of this SF incarnation! But the discussion at SRK is on more characters; so what can we…
[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…
the puzzle of Easter persists
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 🙂