I found myself imprisoned at work today. It’s the holidays, so very few people are in anyway. A guy from BT was coming in to do some work on our internet connection, so I had to go and meet him at the front door as none of the receptionists were in. Fairly recently, they installed a security door behind the main door, so there’s a sort of porchway now. I opened the security door (there’s a push button release on …
Miner Dig Deep is a great Xbox Live Community game – 200 points (about ¬¨¬£1.50) for addictive OCD digging gameplay. Over on the Xbox Live forums, there’s a guy called Chad Bling who would appear to be just slightly in love with the game. And he’s just slightly unhinged. As you can see in this video where he spoils the ending of the game for everyone: It’s only a game, Chad!
What a great Community Game. It really was a lot lie Diggers, but easier to control and with less resource management. I won’t spoil the end, but basically all you have to do to win is dig to a certain depth and find… something. It ws quite addictive, and the must-collect-everything gameplay was OCD heaven. And for what was what – £1.50? – an absolute bargain.
My first purchased Community Game! Some guy on rllmuk was going on about it, and he made it sound like Diggers, a game I used to play on the Acorn. Having played the trial of it for a while, I realised that it was, in fact, quite a lot like Diggers. You don’t control diggers like Lemmings, instead having direct control over a single miner. However, most of the other bits of the game are there – mine for ore, …
It would appear that the entire Anchorage simulation within Fallout 3 is only about 4 hours long in total. That’s not really a bad thing as such, it’s just I was hoping it might be a little bit longer. Having said that, I enjoyed it despite it not really feeling like Fallout 3 much. It was very linear, heavy on the shooting, and completely different in terms of ammo and health management. Looking forward to the other two planned extra …
Here’s a fun game we’ve been playing at work this week. Never mind Xbox 360 achievements or PS3 trophies – it’s all about getting green piecharts on Windows Services Update Server!
After a few weeks of uming and ahing about whether I wanted to buy a Tower Defence clone for my iPod, I caved in and bought it. I do have a tendency to get addicted to such games, but I didn’t think the iPod was up to it. But it is. Oh yes. The controls are a little fiddly, but aside from that it’s a perfectly capable and hugely addictive game. The basic Tower Defence unit types are swapped for …
Yes! It’s back to Fallout 3! There was a new expansion recently, called Operation Anchorage, and with Lego Indiana Jones completed, I decided to make a start on it. Once in the game, you get a message saying there’s a radio signal from the Brotherhood Outcasts, and a new marker on the map. Once there, you help them out for a bit, then you’re put in a computer simulator (like the Tranquillity Lane ones), and take part in a recreation …
And it’s all over! Today I obtained 100% completed, as well as the remaining achievements. And very good it all was too – especially for the OCD-inclined gamer.
In my quest to completely complete Lego Indiana Jones, I somehow managed to collect 11 artifact pieces on one of the levels.  Even though there are only 10. How?
The other day, with all the snow, I walked across this field. There had been snow on the ground for a full 24 or more hours, and yet somehow none of the kids who live in the estate have bothered to even walk in the snow, let alone build a snowman. Tch.
Finally! Apple have a MacBook mini! A 9-inch screened, netbook-style laptop! Perfect! OK, so they haven’t really. What I actually have here is a normally lovely-but-OS-X-less Dell Inspiron mini 9, with OS X installed on it. Leopard, in fact. It was very easy to do, as well. I just followed the instructions here.
A student came and asked me: “My teacher said she needs a pink and blue toner for her printer” “Pink and blue? Together?” “Yes” “Spots or stripes?” “I don’t know – should I go and ask?”
No, not the news readers, although they qualify anyway. No – I spotted this on the lunchtime news today: