UPDATE: Closing date is May 1st! Rock out with Ultimate Band – the new music video game that allows you to build a band or jam alone to become the ultimate rock performer! Experience the rush of rock stardom in story mode. Advance your music career and popularity from playing in a neighbourhood garage to performing in front of an international audience at a world famous venue. Only then will you be able to call yourself a true legend of …
I bought this a couple of weeks ago when it was on offer, but it’s only at the weekend that I had a chance to play it. I had enjoyed the demo previously, but 1600 points was a bit too much to pay for one episode of a game when I had loads of other games to play. 800 points, though, is a bargain. The story so far: is nuts. I didn’t really expect anything else, though. I’ve already cleared …
Here’s a game a wrote for the Game Boy Advance a few years ago. It’s a port of Duncan MacDonald’s seminal masterpiece of the same name (minus the Advance at the end, of course).¬¨‚Ć You’ll need a Game Boy Advance emulator, or some sort of GBA flash card or something if you want to play it! Download it here!
Well, I did say that online was the main bit of Outrun, didn’t I? “Completed”, in case you’re wondering, entailed this: completing every Goal from A-E, and the 15 Stage mode, all on Normal difficulty. Yeah, a bit short, but never mind. I did try some time trials, but there’s no way on earth I’ll ever manage to get the achievements for them. 4:30 to reach a goal? My fastest time, with no mess-ups, crashes, and very little off-roading, was …
Can you see Lassie in this knot of wood? Every time I go to the barbers it’s there, staring at me, in the wood panelling.
It’s Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast! Only not quite! For 800 points on Xbox Live Arcade! What is ace: It’s FUN. Like the older versions. It’s also SHINY. What is not ace: There’s less there in the previous games. It has Arcade mode and Heat Attack mode, but no mission mode or anything. What is a real killer: online mode, the main point of the game, is broken. It’s all too easy to get the BSOD – where the track …
Erm, right. That was a bit short, wasn’t it? Yeah, so I have 11 of the 12 races left, and some of the gang warfare stuff, but I’ve done everything else. And it took me about 8 hours. I’m sure I read somewhere that The Lost and Damned expansion was supposed to provide “around 35 hours” extra gameplay. If so, I’d love to know where it was. Not that it really matters as I enjoyed it all anyway. At first …
I started playing this a bit before the weekend, then played it again for a couple of hours again today. So far, I’ve been enjoying it, but it isn’t quite working for me yet. There’s nothing wrong with it, as such, it’s just not as much fun as “proper” GTA IV was. Johnny is, in appearance at least, a carbon copy of Nico, and all his biker chums appear to be the same and I don’t remember who is who. …
Before going away for the weekend, I downloaded all the weekly puzzles since the last time I played it (back in January, I think). Over the weekend, I completed them all. Well, all bar one. You have to find the net of a die in a load of die faces. And it is impossible. Fact.
It would appear that Mirror’s Edge is somewhat shorter than I was expecting. There’s only 9 chapters, and aside from a couple of bits that I was obviously doing the wrong way (a car park and the security servers bits), it wasn’t that hard either – even though I was playing it on Normal and refusing to use guns. That isn’t to say it’s bad – far from it. It’s just over a bit soon, that’s all. I only paid …
Just a catch-up and verdict on a couple of films I’ve seen recently: My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) Silly, but funny, film about a socially awkward superhero who falls for someone who helps her out, only to become ridiculously jealous of his co-worker. Eddie Izzard is the best character, as always. Verdict: 3/5 The Truman Show (1998) Remember when Jim Carrey used to be good? Ideally cast here as a star of his own Big Brother type TV show, only he …
Who wouldn’t want popular videogames parodied in the form of 80s-style LCD handhelds? Squibs Arcade is a set of such things for WiiWare, taking off GTA, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty and many more. And it looks AMAZING. Look: Ace, no?¬¨‚Ć More here.
We got a Graze box today. It’s a delivery of three lots of fruit, nuts, seeds, dried stuff, and that sort of thing. And very nice it was too! The idea is you order these boxes, and they pick stuff you like (or want to try) to go in them. They then deliver them in time for lunch. Anyway, with our box we got a code to share with others to net them a free box too!¬¨‚Ć Normally, they’re ¬¨¬£2.99, …
Isn’t is amazing how, having posted on a forum just a week ago asking if it was possible to stream music from my Mac to my phone over the internet, that I stumble across Subsonic? OK, so it isn’t click-and-work simple to get up and running. And, I can’t actually get it to stream to my phone (yet) – but I can stream to computers, browse my library, create playlists and so on! Other issues so far include being unable …
I thought this for £13 was a bargain from Asda the other day. Until I saw it for £9.98 in Blockbuster this weekend. Oh well. After milking Lego Batman for everything it had, I moved onto Mirror’s Edge. It’s really good too, if somewhat hard and disorientating. It isn’t making me feel sick (like many have found), it’s just I get lost easily and even though there’s a button to look at where you’re supposed to go, that doesn’t help. …