Made a reasonable profit on turnips this week – around 60,000 bells. Some of that I held back for the next lot, but most of the returned investment went on my mortgage. I’ve planted an orchard this week too, meaning every few days I have a big pile of money to harvest. Oh, and Rod the mouse moved in on Thursday, presumably to replace Drift.
Yesterday morning, I downloaded the Big Surf add-on for Burnout Paradise. This afternoon, I completed everything it had to offer. Which was actually more than it would appear from that timescale. I got a good 6 hours out of it, finding the smashes, billboards and mega-jumps, as well as completing all the new events. Strangely, I really wanted to 100% it, whereas with the main game, I wasn’t so interested. Perhaps the smaller area just made it seem more feasible …
What should she do? Found this video on a British Heart Foundation “emergency life support skills” DVD. Is it wrong that the (added, obviously) punchline is the first thing I thought of when I watched it?
I have actually been playing this for 20 minutes or so almost every day since I got it almost a month ago, but as is the laid back way of the game, not a huge amount actually happens. In the last week, I made very little selling turnips (around 5,000 bells in total, I think) and Drift has moved out. Most of the remaining animals have taken to wearing my designed shirt though – ace!
Got over the difficulties I was having with this previously, and then stormed through most of the remaining levels. I think there’s only one left now!
I’ve finally got round to adding a pile more games to my museum section. And, having stuck them all in the database and scanned them all, I realised I have another pile on my desk. Oh well. They can wait. Amongst the games added today includes the not-played-yet and probably-not-great Rise of the Argonauts by Codemasters, which is notable because I won it in a competition a few weeks ago, along with a matching Xbox 360 faceplate. So much for …
What I like about this, is that not only do I get an huge cash sum, but I bag myself a gen-you-wine Nigerian woman into the bargain! See also the amazing nonsense about my file (marked X!) and the released disk (painted RED!). From: ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć janejames08@gmail.com Subject: ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć Jame J Date: ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć 5 June 2009 14:20:52 BST To: ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć Undisclosed recipients: ; Reply-To: ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć janejames01@hotmail.co.uk I am Miss Jane James.. a computer scientist with central bank of Nigeria. I am …
Overall, I was a bit disappointed that there weren’t more proper new games at E3 this year. There were plenty of good games, but most have either been known about for ages, or were sequels. So, what I’m looking forward to:
I don’t have a PS3, but if I did, this would interest me. I loved Crackdown, and it seems to have a similar sort of feel to it. The blurb: In the aftermath of an urban disaster, an everyday guy finds himself with extraordinary powers. What he does with them is up to you. Welcome to inFamous, the sensational new title for PLAYSTATION¬¨?Ü3 If society collapsed tomorrow and you found yourself with unique powers that could either help people or …
Flew through the remaining 20 or so events needed in order to get my Burnout Licence. Most of them were Road Rage events, which are by far the easiest (unless you count the drive-slow “cheat” for Marked Man). A few were stunt runs. Now I can, if I want, go for a Burnout Elite Licence. I don’t really think I can be bothered, as it’s just a repeat of all the previous events again, only slightly harder. I did have …
I’ve not had time to update this week, but, unusually, I’ve managed to play a fair amount. Apollo Justice (DS)Still plowing through the second case. I’ve started cross-examining the accused’s girlfriend. I think I know what the story is, and who did it, and why. Hurrah! Animal Crossing (Wii)Same as it ever is, really. Played for about 20 minutes each day, just pottering round Cheese; a bit of fishing, some fossil collecting, weeding, chatting to the other residents, and that …
Nintendo have gotten wise to naughty Animal Crossing players trying to change the town residents’ catchphrases to rude words. Unfortunately, this gives rise to something equally humourous: Of course you can’t enter it. That sort of thing isn’t allowed in Nintendoland!
I think with Issue 03, our retro issue, we really hit the big time. The ugvm site got slashdotted, the bandwidth costs spiralled to ¬¨¬£244 for just one weekend, and we were swamped with emails. Mostly complaints about Tim saying interaction fiction was dead, which he didn’t quite say, but still – the publicity took us to over 10,000 subscribers. 10,000! Thats more than many print-based magazines! [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=090519132232-8fafbec832be47149b8cd797e636fcc0 docname=ugvm03 username=deKay loadinginfotext=ugvm%20Issue%2003 width=420 height=297 unit=px] EDIT: Oh, and …
It’s back! Hurrah! And, to my surprise, it works. Sadly, not everything is perfect with it now, but I can manage. Firstly, the clips that hold the faceplate on have been bent so the top of the faceplate is a few millimetres proud of the rest of the 360’s case. Secondly, I’ve had to re-download about half of my XBLA games as they’d reverted to trial versions (when logged in as another user). Why only about half of them, I …