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 …
I got a parcel in the post today. I thought it was going to be some Xbox 360 game and faceplate I won in a competition a few weeks ago, as I wasn’t expecting anything else (besides my 360, of course, but that was coming via UPS not Royal Fail). Anyway, somehow, I managed to guess what it was simply by rattling it. And what was it? This! It was a slightly belated birthday present from my sister. Told you …
Package Progress Location Date Local Time Description BARKING, GB 27/05/2009 21:03 DEPARTURE SCAN 27/05/2009 11:14 ARRIVAL SCAN BRUSSELS, BE 27/05/2009 6:57 DEPARTURE SCAN 27/05/2009 5:29 ARRIVAL SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 27/05/2009 2:49 DEPARTURE SCAN 27/05/2009 2:14 ARRIVAL SCAN FRANKFURT, DE 26/05/2009 23:43 DEPARTURE SCAN 26/05/2009 19:25 ORIGIN SCAN DE 26/05/2009 0:21 BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED Wow! Might be here tomorrow then!
This is excellent. If you don’t buy it, you need a kick in the teeth. It got very hard towards the end of the Aztec campaign, with one level in particular seemingly at stalemate for 20 minutes whilst both side just spammed units, until I decided this was never going to work and gave up. Next go seemed much easier, although I did finish the first objective much more quickly. Now, I’m onto the second level of the Chinese (or …
I’ve managed to play this every day, bar one, so far, which is pretty good going. I’m taking it slower than in previous versions, but already I’ve managed to pay off my first mortgage and almost half of my second. Bunnie came and visited my house yesterday. She said it was a bit sparse (I have virtually no furniture) and gave me three stars. The cow. I’ve also joined Redd’s club, which I know is a bad idea as I …
I finished the first case, which yes, was pretty short. It didn’t really explain a lot about Phoenix and Trucy, but I expect later cases will do that. Now I’m onto the second case, and have done all the pre-trial investigations, and am cross-examining the witness, who is a stuck-up student. I think he did it. Maybe.