I’m sat here watching a small spider wandering aimlessly across the surface of the wall in front of me… it’s kind of mesmerising. Normally I’d capture it and put it outside but it’s only a small little thing. After seeing some of it’s bigger cousins in Australia it doesn’t seem that much of a deal [...]
Yes, I think I might finally be getting somewhere…
Since leaving the Game Development industry a short while back I have to admit that I haven’t had much time to indulge in my still strong passion for computer and video games. Sad, I know. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that Lynda has no interest [...]
I watched the Silent Hill movie (released 2006) for the first time yesterday – you can check it here on IMDB and here on Wikipedia. I wasn’t too sure what to expect having heard mixed reviews; some good, some bad and from one extreme to the other. In all truth my expectations weren’t too high [...]
Having not played a decent PC game in quite a while I fired up Half Life 2 with a view to playing through it, and Episode 1, again. (No, I haven’t bought The Orange Box). Within in a minute or two of starting I was happily reminded of just how good this game actually is; [...]
No, no – don’t worry. I’m not going anywhere (unlucky for you). I’m still playing catch-up with my blog entries and this post’s title relates back to July 17th 2007…
Tuesday, 17th July 2007… my last day in work. Or rather, my last day in work as an omnipotent game programmer / code monkey. (Stop that [...]
Well… I’m sat here waiting whilst detailed maps of Western Europe are installed onto my TomTom One XL (yes, I decided to buy one as it will no doubt be useful to Lyn and I when we embark on the Honda Euro Tour in a handful of days time). Unfortunately it is taking a very [...]
A superb piece of machinima – where Halo meets Metroid, albeit with a twist towards the end. Only geeks, er, I mean videogame afficionado’s need apply… Click me.
In the past I have always used Microsoft Outlook for my various e-mail needs but recently decided to try Mozilla Thunderbird. There were a few reasons for this change:
We have migrated over to using Thunderbird in work
It’s cheaper (i.e. free)
It looks so much better, especially with a little tweaking and custom theme
Having been a fan [...]
Having been thoroughly impressed (at least that’s the impression I get) by the Xbox360 and the Xbox Live service I notice many friends have bitten the bullet and parted with their hard-earned to get their hands on the console. Following the purchase of the console comes the inevitable connectivity with Xbox Live. Once connected to [...]
How can such an innocent and simple task as setting up a home network and connecting to the Internet become so painful and time-consuming? How? Easy… all you need is a fantastic piece of hardware known as a Sponge Router. The Sponge Router does nothing more than sucks up any data packets it receives and [...]
Y’know, this game could be very, very good. I highly recommend you download the demo and give it a blast. It looks good, sounds good and (importantly) plays well. It might be a standard run ‘n’ gun affair at heart but, thanks to good level design and well implemented game mechanics, it would appear to [...]
Following the recent hot weather (and the fact that it actually lasted longer than 3 whole days) I noticed my PC was getting a little hot under the collar. Nothing too serious, but all the extra cooling fans were kicking in and the noise from the cooler on my graphics card was akin to sitting [...]
Plush they ain’t
Stupid, stupid name
Amazing!
Anyone for playing catch?
It’s still good
One for arcade beat em up fans…
Cracking game!
You are currently browsing the archives for the Gaming and Movies category.
