Last week, there was an update for the 360. It was supposedly innocuous, simply providing the groundwork for some features not yet accessible. It wasn’t supposed to do anything to the system. Except, of course, for me. I can now no longer access the Marketplace. Joy! I can sign in and out of Live, send and receive messages, play games online, and all that – but the Marketplace is just… gone. I can still download stuff, by going to xbox.com …
No idea why I started playing this today, but I did install it on my Wii’s hard drive. I was unable to play it for a long time as there wasn’t enough space on my Wii for the save file, although that problem has been resolved now. Didn’t bother with the Subspace Emmisary missions, instead playing single player arcade mode (which I completed with Ike) and some of the challenges and minigames. It is good, but I don’t feel like …
I’ve added 37 more games to the Museum! I’ve not updated it in quite a while, and I still have to scan a few covers for some of those games added, but the majority are Xbox Live Arcade/Wii Ware/iPhone downloaded titles, so have no covers to scan. I’m up to 1719 games now. That’s a lot of games.
Thankfully, having completed chapter 1 last weekend, I didn’t have to wait long for chapter 2 – it was out on WiiWare yesterday! Played it a bit last night, than completed it this morning. Like chapter 1 it’s a bit short, but then it is a chapter, not a full game. It was great, anyway. A little harder than the first one, as I got stuck a couple of times, but it was just as good.
I’ve had this for ages, but never really got round to playing it. However, I installed it on my Wii’s hard drive at the weekend so have played it a bit this week. First of all, it’s violent. Very violent. But it’s so stylised and over the top that it doesn’t feel so bad when you play. It’s not exactly cartoon violence, but it’s certainly not realistic. The gameplay didn’t gel with me at first. The controls felt clumsy, and …
I had an AMAZING idea this morning. You know kettles, right? They’re great, aren’t they? Thing is, you don’t know how long they take to boil – unless you time it or something. Imagine if they had a computer-style progress bar on them! Wouldn’t that be fantastic? You’d never more have to guess how long left before you have a coffee! You’d know if you still had time to nip to the loo or not! You’d be able to manage …
Today brings the release of ZXGamer -a ¬¨¬£1.19 ZX Spectrum emulator for the iPhone! It currently plays only three games (included) – Batty, Cyclone and Exolon, and it runs a bit slow at the moment, but it’s a start! iPhone 3GS only, at the moment. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from deKay’s posterous
I just installed this on my Wii. I don’t know why. I hate it. Posted via email from deKay’s posterous
I downloaded this WiiWare game a while ago, but only got round to playing it yesterday. And then completed it today. Yeah, it’s pretty short. But then, it’s by Telltale Games – who did the Strong Bad games I’d played previously – so I wasn’t really surprised. It was pretty good too. Reports on the Wii version had it down as a horrible jerky mess with broken audio and crap graphics, mainly due to the compression necessary to squeeze it …
I had an unusual query this week. A member of staff wanted to create a line graph that showed the chart position of a song over a number of weeks.¬¨‚Ć It’s an easy thing to do – two columns in the spreadsheet, one for “Week” and one for “Position”. Problem is, in a chart, the low numbers are at the top and the high numbers are at the bottom, so the graph comes out upside-down. You can’t just make the …
The main reason being, of course, to simply grab my own name on it. This could be considered a test post. Here’s a picture of a shop that doesn’t exist any more: Posted via email from dekay’s posterous
Over the summer at work, we changed the way staff profiles are stored on the network. Having finally got around the “redirected Application Data breaks Internet Explorer” problem (see here for my fix) in Windows XP, we rolled it out to all users. And all was well. Until they brought their laptops back from the break, and we found they then can’t run various programs or access certain things when not connected to the network. This is because the laptop …
Well, I did in the end as I didn’t have a choice. I read it carefully. Very carefully.
There’s a game on Xbox Live Arcade Indie Games called “I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1” With that spelling and probably that capitalisation. It’s a twin-stick, multiplayer shooter. With zombies in it (in case you hadn’t realised). And it’s pretty good. But… the soundtrack makes it OUTSTANDING. See for yourself: