June 8th, 2008 by rob hale
spent a much needed weekend away from Newcastle (and most importantly work) and stopped over at my parents to celebrate my Sisters birthday.
The weeks of overtime decided to take this time to clobber me on the back of the head and I spent most of it either asleep, napping or in some muggy state between the two.
However during my brief periods of conciousness I have done things:
Bought flOw from the Playstation store for my PSP. You remember flOw right? The funny little flash game from a couple of years ago… It’s interesting how I pretty much wrote off the PSP when the DS came out but I’ve spent far more time playing PSP games than anything on my DS. Also interesting how few of those games are actually in 3D. The only 3D game I own for PSP is Vice City Stories and I’ve barely touched it compared to Patapon and Loco Roco.
It’s very good and incredibly relaxing. You can’t really go wrong for a fiver.
Played yet more Age of Conan. I find I can’t settle on a class in this so I’ve got alot of characters around level 8/9 now and little inclination to go back to any of them.
Signed up to Twitter. It’s an interesting thing and all interesting things deserve support.
Got introduced to a band from Tokyo called BlindPlace.
Ate some of the best Chinese food I’ve ever tasted at Wing Wah in Harrogate.
The coming week holds yet more ominous tones of crunch and overtime. Yippee.
June 5th, 2008 by rob hale
So I hear that Blu-Ray has won the format wars.
It’s probably a very silly thing then to go around buying an HD-DVD drive for your Xbox.
Well not if they only cost £20 it isn’t!
Quite a few people in my office have all just bought HD-DVD drives from Gamestation as part of a deal (£30 for the drive and 3 Films). Which if you consider that the Universal Remote that is packaged with it costs £20 from the same store you’re basically getting an HD-DVD drive and 3 films for a tenner.
I don’t own a PS3. I have no intention to get one anytime soon and I can’t afford a dedicated Blu-Ray player (Cheapest one I could find on Amazon) and the discs themselves cost far more than HD-DVDs.
Sure no new titles may be released but when it comes to films I don’t already own then the HD versions are in some cases cheaper than the equivilent DVD Version.
So I’ve made the most of this and stocked up on some films I always meant to get on DVD but never did. In terms of filling the gap between now and when Blu-Ray actually becomes cheap enough to merit investing in a player I’m very content with my decision.
In fact if I ever meet somebody who has bought the blu-ray versions of films that aren’t exclusive to the format I will be inclined to laugh. It just seems like a massive waste of money.
Dead formats. I prefer them much more than living ones…
June 1st, 2008 by rob hale
I’ve not been able to do much due to massive impending deadlines.
However things I have done and would reccommend:
Bought Everyday Shooter on Steam (it’s very good).
Attempted to play Age of Conan. What I’ve played is great but it’s just come out at the wrong time. I got to level 8 and then haven’t had time to do much with it since. Boo!
Racked up achievements on E4. I personally prefer the original Every Extend but it was ridiculously hard to get good scores on. E4 is all about completely ridiculous high-scores and pretty much completely zoning out for 2 hours on a single game.
Read DMZ Volume 4. It’s much better than volume 3 which was pretty wishy-washy compared to the first two volumes and was far too short. Volume 4 deals with far more interesting subjects and Brian Wood seems to have acknowledged that Matty Roth just isn’t an interesting character in himself and resorts to using him as the story teller rather than the subject. It allows the book to explore it’s subject matter much better and I guess will ultimately allow the series to go into more interesting areas.
Anything else has slipped from my memory so couldn’t have been anygood.
May 16th, 2008 by rob hale
Breakpoint was a long time ago now but since I’m fiddling with my site I thought I would throw up a link to the winner of PC Demo: Masagin by Farbrausch/Neuro.
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May 16th, 2008 by rob hale
May 16th, 2008 by rob hale
Nothing to see here. Move along.
