Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
10/29/2014
I’m a couple of chapters into Capcom’s Remember Me – an urban cyberpunk Lara Croft adventure, movie like FMV, William Gibson’s tomorrow’s technology, combat of Batman and Assassins Creed, with its own touch of remix… and then we have the cool finishing move ‘overloads’, that reminds me of Bayonetta’s wicked weave Modern day Paris is stunning, reminiscent of a Final Fantasy city blended with Hong Kong; the only thing it’s…
07/12/2014
I find it hard to believe that I have never tried this before! I find enterring lengthy text messages via joystick into XBOX LIve timely. Today I plugged in a keyboard I have been using with a Raspberry Pi into the XBOX to see if it would work. Wonders of technology, keyboard typing without the need for drivers! Not sure of how long the nolvelty will last before I revert…
Typical that Microsoft begin to give away free games after I quit my Gold subscription. The main reason I quit paying out was that they had given nothing away in the ~8 years I’d had an account… ah the irony. May have to sign back up? I enjoyed the outer World hyper realsim of SR:3, and sure the multiplayer game will be well manned now evey Gold member has a…
12/20/2013
As much as I love the functionality of the xbox 360 kinnect, and there have been some cool games, I don’t use it too often. So I got thinking about what would be an effective use for this sophisticated bit of kit. My first thought was as an alternative cursor controller. And being the 21st century, and having google available at my fingertips, I found that someone had done the…
I’m having fun with 2 more xbox live arcade titles… I seem to be spending more time on the xbox after I cancelled my 7 year subscription 🙂 The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile This mono (except for blood splurts and falling coins) shaded 2D side scrolling hack and slash is a great challenge; with a variety of weapons and moves plus end of level monstrous bad guys to tick ever box…
09/15/2013
Developers suggest performance differences are “significant and obvious” PS4 ‘noticeably faster’ than Xbox One, sources claim Console war will ‘reinvigorate’ flagging industry, says Sony boss Sony preparing against PS4 post-launch sell-out Japan PS4 to launch in 2014 Sony’s PlayStation 4 is significantly faster than the Xbox One, according to development sources speaking to Edge. Despite Microsoft’s effort to close the gap as much as possible before release, Edge claims that…
07/14/2013
I was looking to pick up an arcade cabinet from the Kiwi equivalent of Ebay, Trade ME There are some great deals available, but rather than spend the best part of a grand, I thought I would see what I could put together within Ubuntu. I know that the re-make of the cabinets run Mame games, I’m not stranger to the emulator, I even run it on my PS3, so…
06/18/2013
I don’t know how I missed this on launch… or after spending a little time playing with it today, I may have deleted it on launch and forgot about it 🙂 There are only 2 reasons I boot up my xbox, for Street Fighter and kinect games. And after burning off a bit of sweat on sports titles this afternoon, I started messing about with the voice prompts. One thing…
09/08/2012
I’ve both Dawnguard & Hearthfire installed, I’m finishing off the vamp missions, maxing our my vamp skill tree, before I plan to turn back to lupine. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed my time as a blood sucking creature of the night, but I find the dark lord far too overpowered. Twice in the last 24hrs I’ve been trying to fast travel & both times the game hangs on the…
Have I got some cool shit to show. I took the fusion table I’d made with the list of xbox titles, and I’ve cut the data by different descriptions on a couple of network charts. Did I mention the tables are interactive? Have a play, see what you think xbox titles by developer & genre Note to self: 10/09/16 – Rebuild this for PS4 🙂