Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (Demo) (3DS)

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Final Fantasy games don’t interest me much any more. They lost their way back at Final Fantasy VII, and most spinoffs like the Crystal Chronicles games have left me indifferent. Aside from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, of course. And that Chocobo game for the DS. Er, anyway. As a result, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this Guitar Hero-ish screen tapping rhythm game featuring music from Final Fantasy games, none of which I’m likely to recognise. Thankfully, it was …

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (Demo) (3DS)

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I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game. I recently bought the DS Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (worst title ever) game, but haven’t played it. After the DDD demo, I don’t think I’ll bother. It was terrible. The voice acting, the controls, the stupid Jet Set Radio style rail grinding, the camera which insists on pointing in exactly the wrong way at all times, and the seemingly complex fighting system (that appeared to be a bit like that in Eternal …

Games I’ve Been Playing Recently

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Yes! It’s another lazy game-play-roundup-post! You know you love them! Oh, and before I get into that, a little bit of housekeeping: I’ve added my Raptr feed to the sidebar. Exciting! Skyrim (360) Somehow I got sidetracked from what I presume is the last quest in the Thieves Guild plotline (it’s easy to do – I talk to everyone and most people give me quests, so I’ve over 60 open now)  and ended up finding some more dwarven ruins en-route …

Injecting Windows Updates into install WIM files via MDT

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For a while now we’ve been deploying Windows 7 on the network using the Microsoft Deployment Toolbox, and it generally works well. However, some of the images we deploy are now about a year old, and a year is a long time in the wonderful world of Microsoft Critical And Security Updates, and so having deployed a new PC there’s still a good hour’s worth of install-reboot-install-reboot-install “fun” with the updates. I decided it was time to start rolling the …

Skyrim (360)

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Played this a LOT over the weekend. And don’t feel like I’ve actually progressed much at all. Sure, I’ve got the Eyes of Whatsit from the dwarven ruins, and killed the guy who betrayed everyone, but aside from taking some things I’d picked up along the way to various people to finish some side quests, that seems to be all. Why it took so long, I don’t know. Stats fans! I’m about 38 hours in, on level 21. Hurrah!

My first Arduino project – Pulse

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OK, so it’s not really a project. And the circuit is just that used in the ARDX manual for CIRC-07. But the program is mine! It’s not very exciting, but then I expect first projects rarely are. If you can’t tell from the video, the LED pulses and the two buttons control the speed of the pulse. int ledPin = 9; int inputPin1 = 3; int inputPin2 = 2; int val = 0; void setup() { pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); pinMode(inputPin1, INPUT); …

Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS)

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Went through another couple of levels, embarrassingly only on intensity 2.4. They were quite easy though, with my new Pudgy Palm of Awezom Power. Its range is a bit feeble though, so I had to change my attack style to suit. It seems there’s a whole second set of achievements for the game too, having unlocked a new page of them today. Only have about 15% of them overall! After that I went and played the first level again – this time …

Skyrim (360)

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After a week or so away, it was back to the Thieves Guild to carry on that questline. I’d just reached Goldenglow, and wiped out everything there. After that, it was off to the Honningbrew Meadery for rat-and-spider killings for fun and profit. Oh, and poisoning the captain of the guard. What roffles. Upon returning to Maven Black-Briar to inform her I’d done her deeds, I bumped into a guy at the pub she was in. He challenged me to …

Skyrim Louis Letrush bug

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After stealing a horse for Louis Letrush many hours ago in Skyrim, I noticed half-a-Louis near the stables outside Whiterun. He seemed to be stuck in the ground. It was odd, sure, but this sort of thing is reasonably common in games like this. However, a few hours later I was walking past Whiterun again, and, well – watch.

Lego Star Wars III (360)

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So it turns out that I didn’t return to Skyrim immediately, instead installing this. I have no knowledge of the Clone Wars cartoon, and all I know about the Star Wars 1 to 3 films came from Lego Star Wars II, so I’m going in blind. Not that you need to know anything about the setting in order to play Lego games. You just mash X. I’ve finished the first 5 levels. I don’t know how many levels there are, …

Nintendo Promises New Pokemon 3DS Games amid a World Championship Craze

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(Guest post by Nintendo) In the beginning of the year, Nintendo promised new Pokemon games and several interesting developments for all fans of the 3DS Nintendo console. Meanwhile, the Pokemon World Championships craze is on the rise due to the expected finale of the event in Hawaii, which will take place during the summer. New Pokemon Games: Two new Pokemon developments are expected in the autumn of 2012, Nintendo announced in an official press release. These will complement the upcoming …

Portal 2 (360): COMPLETED!

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Well, it’s about time I completed something! Having lots of games on the go kind of drops the amount of time you spend on each so you don’t really progress in them much. However, the main thing I’ve played for the last week has been Portal 2, and, not being especially long, meant completion was pretty much inevitable. I liked the new gels, especially the conversion gel (painting an entire room with it so every surface becomes portal-able was awesome), and …

Portal 2 (360)

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Hmm. This “sticking to a few games and just playing those” thing is working well, I see. Portal 2 arrived last week, so I had to play it. I was going to wait until after Skyrim, but you know how these things are. It is, as expected, awesome. Particularly Wheatley, who is just Stephen Merchant in robot form. Not just his voice (obviously, since it’s him doing it), but the “character” Stephen generally plays too. GlaDOS is great too, as …