It’s Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast! Only not quite! For 800 points on Xbox Live Arcade! What is ace: It’s FUN. Like the older versions. It’s also SHINY. What is not ace: There’s less there in the previous games. It has Arcade mode and Heat Attack mode, but no mission mode or anything. What is a real killer: online mode, the main point of the game, is broken. It’s all too easy to get the BSOD – where the track …
Erm, right. That was a bit short, wasn’t it? Yeah, so I have 11 of the 12 races left, and some of the gang warfare stuff, but I’ve done everything else. And it took me about 8 hours. I’m sure I read somewhere that The Lost and Damned expansion was supposed to provide “around 35 hours” extra gameplay. If so, I’d love to know where it was. Not that it really matters as I enjoyed it all anyway. At first …
I started playing this a bit before the weekend, then played it again for a couple of hours again today. So far, I’ve been enjoying it, but it isn’t quite working for me yet. There’s nothing wrong with it, as such, it’s just not as much fun as “proper” GTA IV was. Johnny is, in appearance at least, a carbon copy of Nico, and all his biker chums appear to be the same and I don’t remember who is who. …
Before going away for the weekend, I downloaded all the weekly puzzles since the last time I played it (back in January, I think). Over the weekend, I completed them all. Well, all bar one. You have to find the net of a die in a load of die faces. And it is impossible. Fact.
It would appear that Mirror’s Edge is somewhat shorter than I was expecting. There’s only 9 chapters, and aside from a couple of bits that I was obviously doing the wrong way (a car park and the security servers bits), it wasn’t that hard either – even though I was playing it on Normal and refusing to use guns. That isn’t to say it’s bad – far from it. It’s just over a bit soon, that’s all. I only paid …
Just a catch-up and verdict on a couple of films I’ve seen recently: My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) Silly, but funny, film about a socially awkward superhero who falls for someone who helps her out, only to become ridiculously jealous of his co-worker. Eddie Izzard is the best character, as always. Verdict: 3/5 The Truman Show (1998) Remember when Jim Carrey used to be good? Ideally cast here as a star of his own Big Brother type TV show, only he …
Who wouldn’t want popular videogames parodied in the form of 80s-style LCD handhelds? Squibs Arcade is a set of such things for WiiWare, taking off GTA, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty and many more. And it looks AMAZING. Look: Ace, no?¬¨‚Ć More here.
We got a Graze box today. It’s a delivery of three lots of fruit, nuts, seeds, dried stuff, and that sort of thing. And very nice it was too! The idea is you order these boxes, and they pick stuff you like (or want to try) to go in them. They then deliver them in time for lunch. Anyway, with our box we got a code to share with others to net them a free box too!¬¨‚Ć Normally, they’re ¬¨¬£2.99, …
Isn’t is amazing how, having posted on a forum just a week ago asking if it was possible to stream music from my Mac to my phone over the internet, that I stumble across Subsonic? OK, so it isn’t click-and-work simple to get up and running. And, I can’t actually get it to stream to my phone (yet) – but I can stream to computers, browse my library, create playlists and so on! Other issues so far include being unable …
I thought this for £13 was a bargain from Asda the other day. Until I saw it for £9.98 in Blockbuster this weekend. Oh well. After milking Lego Batman for everything it had, I moved onto Mirror’s Edge. It’s really good too, if somewhat hard and disorientating. It isn’t making me feel sick (like many have found), it’s just I get lost easily and even though there’s a button to look at where you’re supposed to go, that doesn’t help. …
100% completed! Hurrah! This week I’ve been pecking at the remaining minikits, which for some reason were mostly on the Penguin levels – both hero and villain. The last minikit I got was by far the most difficult in the game. Harder than the whole of the rest of the game put together (erm, even though the rest of the game was very, very easy…). You have to slide down an icy slope, through 5 gates. Only you can’t jump, …
A policeman came and knocked on my door today. He wanted to ask me a few questions. He asked if I was [my name], and I said yes. Then he asked if I had anything to do with [local football club]. Obviously not! It was very odd. Apparently, there was an incident at said club yesterday, and they needed to question someone else who has my (pretty uncommon, especially locally) name, but I’m the only person in Norfolk with my …
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This morning I sent an email to everyone at work: To: All Staff Subject: Paying for internet access after Easter As you’re aware, money is tight next year. To make things worse, our school internet connection costs have increased – mainly because we are now metered, and have to pay-per-site rather than per-month. It’s a bit like having Pay As You Go rather than a monthly contract on your mobile. In consultation with a working party of staff, it has …