Fillum review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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Based on a comic series I’ve never seen, the film groups fictional characters from popular 19th century literature together as a sort of Victorian Justice League. Naturally, they have enemies who are also fictional characters from popular 19th century literature. Evil enemies who want to cause a war then profit from it by selling technology and science to the opposing factions! Considering the film is set in 1899, the number of 20th century inventions littering it seem out of place …

Super Demotastic Game Demo Roundup (360)

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Since Fallout 3 and A Kingdom for Keflings, I’ve not really made a proper start on any other games. I’ve downloaded a played a fair few demos this week, however: Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?Apparently not, as I failed at £25,000. Even though my 5th Grader helper didn’t get the answer either, so therefore she was as thick as me. The question was about baseball, so it isn’t surprising I didn’t know what the answer was. And what …

Lethal gases don’t work weekends

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Yesterday, our carbon monoxide monitor broke. I rang British Gas, and, since it was still under warranty, they told me to ring the manufacturer for a free replacement. So I did. Unfortunately, although the replacement would indeed be free, we’d have to send it back, wait a bit, and then they’d send it back repaired (or replaced). The woman on the phone said it was possible that the Christmas post might mean we wouldn’t receive it until the new year. …

Dell software piracy

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Today at work, I took delivery of a shiny new Dell Mac mini Studio Hybrid. I booted it up, and was confronted with this: That’s nice, isn’t it? I’m accused of being a criminal before I’ve even started using the thing. Amazing! So I clicked “Go online and resolve now”, which took me to this message: I’m not surprised it was invalid. I haven’t typed anything yet – it’s not given me the option!¬¨‚Ć I tried typing a “different” product …

Engage!

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Today was our final planned trip to see the midwife before the baby is due. We’ve got another appointment for a few days after its due date just in case it hasn’t arrived by then, but all being well today was the last one. And pretty much everything was OK. The heartbeat and size and all that was as expected. We were also told that the baby’s head was now 3/5ths engaged. Hence the picture of Picard up there doing …

Sonic Unleashed Demo (360)

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Oh Sega, how I once loved thee. Your happy Sonic games with their speed and platformingness and fun. Why hast thou forsaken me with this swill? Sonic Unleashed, like other recent Sonic games, is crap. Well, the demo is crap at least. Really crap. And there isn’t even a werehog stage to play, and the werehog stages haven’t exactly been top of reviewers’ lists of Ace Things About Sonic Unleashed. It’s like they took all the worst bits of all …

A Kingdom for Keflings (360): COMPLETED!

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Well, there’s no ending as such, but you get a message saying you’ve built a castle and now all that remains is to customise your kingdom. Since customising it doesn’t achieve anything, and I’ve now got all the single-player (and one of the multiplayer) achievements, I can call this “done”. Seven and a half hours of stress-free, dangerless gaming. Yay!

A Kingdom for Keflings (360)

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I played a demo of this a couple of weeks ago, and quite enjoyed it. I didn’t bother buying it though, as Fallout 3 was the only game in existence at the time. Today, I stumped up the points for it and spend about 4 or 5 hours on it. It’s lovely! It’s a bit like Settlers, and a bit like Doshin the Giant. Sort of. You (or in this case, me – it uses the 360’s Miis) order villagers …

Cubello (Wii)

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I’m sort of enjoying it. Sort of. The way the colours are often too similar puts me off a bit, and the way when you have just one colour of block remaining (and yet the game throws other colours at you that you can’t use) is really annoying, but it’s fun. I think. I played through 1-B to 1-F, and then 2-B today. Some were harder than others, but only in that I struggled at the end and often died. …

Pit Crew Panic!

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So this would normally be on my Gaming Diary, but it’s a little different and marks both the first proper use of my new camcorder, and the first time I’ve uploaded a video to YouTube. I give you, then, a video of me playing Pit Crew Panic! on the Wii.¬¨‚Ć Oh Lord.

Pit Crew Panic! (Wii)

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I think this video I made more than explains the game: If it doesn’t, then I don’t know what more I can say. I am, however, more than a little confused as to why there are just 6 different things to fix, when the trailers show way more. You seem to accumulate “cog points” (or something), but I can’t find a use for them. I thought perhaps they’d unlock stages, but no. Two player versus (“Abnormal”) mode is quite good …