I completed Super Mario Galaxy 2 this week, and although it was very good, it was very, very easy. Easier than the first game (so far at least – I’m on 82 stars). It wasn’t so much disappointing than unexpected, as all the reviews have suggested it’s actually substantially harder. Anyway, it got me thinking about difficult games, and how they don’t make them any more. Yeah, there are hard games, but compared to difficult 8-bit titles? Pff. Walkovers. All …
I was trying to navigate round the Dell website today to find information on, then spec up, a particular model of PC. At every turn, on every page load, and every time I let go of the mouse for 7 seconds, this appeared: I kept clicking “No Thanks”, but a page change or reload and it was back. This annoyed me a bit. Well, a lot. So I decided to chat with them. Here’s the transcript (with the “Dell Expert”‘s …
On Peppa Pig the other day, Peppa and George were playing their favourite computer game – Happy Mrs Chicken. It looked amazing. So, imagine how excited I was when I found it actually existed! Yes, you too can play Happy Mrs Chicken in the comfort of your own home! Gasp! Simply go to the Peppa Pig site, click Games, click Happy Mrs Chicken, and enjoy!
I’ve decided (just like that, obviously) to migrate my entire lofi-gaming site over to WordPress. Well, most of it. There are a few bits that will remain as Fabulous deKay PHP, but the vast majority of pages will see the move. Why? Because most of my site is never updated. I don’t get the time to fiddle with PHP and having a CMS instead makes updating much quicker and more likely to happen. It also means I can do it …
Have you ever bought anything from Deal Extreme? They’re the internet’s premier provider of shoddy Chinese tat. And quality Chinese tat, of course. Sometimes there are things I need to buy, and they’re the only place I can find it cheap, but then I end up adding other useless junk to the shopping basket while I’m there. A couple of weeks ago, my cheap-and-shoddy iPhone dock (bought from Deal Extreme) died, so I needed another. So back on the site …
If, like us, you have WebMarshal, and it’s tied to an SQL Server Express database, you may find it sometimes just… breaks. You’ll get eventlog messages like “3003: Failed to write session to database” and “PRIMARY filegroup is full” and “Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.DomainFileLog’”. Chances are, your database is full. The Express version of SQL Server 2005 is nice because it’s free, but it does limit database sizes to just 4GB. This may sound huge, but for …
A couple of weeks ago, we took receipt of a shiny new iPad at work. And I’ve been testing it. And it is very shiny. Did I mention it was shiny? Because it is. Very. The haters are quick to point out that it’s just a big iPod Touch. Which it is, only that’s missing the point. Other haters (or the same ones) say it’s very expensive. Which (again) it is, and (again), that’s missing the point too. Others too …
I was sent a Wii SD Card this week (actually, three), and last night got to try one out. So, here is a review. Yes, a review of a piece of plastic and silicon the size of a postage stamp! Amazing. The first thing you’ll notice is that, unlike most SD cards, the SanDisk for Wii card is white. Like the Wii. Little known fact: the Wii itself, its power supply, the SD card shaped. Check yours – I’m right! …
I pretty much ignored the original Mass Effect on release, but somehow acquired it anyway (then forgot I’d done so). Then, when the sequel came out, it sparked interest in the first game. How lucky for me, then, it was on my shelf all along! I played through it earlier this year, then a month ago I got the sequel for my birthday. I hope to play it soon, once BioShock 2 and Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Zelda: Twilight …
What with today being Father’s Day and everything, I got a present from my daughter – Super Mario Galaxy 2! Although she seemed to want to keep it for herself and kept running off with it. When I tried to play it, however, things went wrong. As is always the case with Wii games now, I install them to my USB hard drive and run them from there. So I opened up the USB Loader and put the disc in. …
To celebrate Germany’s defeat at the hands of a (surprised) Serbia this afternoon, why not sit back and enjoy a couple of games of Match Day II, the Spectrum’s best football game? Well, aside from Football Manager, of course, but that has Kevin Toms on the cover. Anyway!
WordPress 3.0 is out! I’ve dangerously upgraded my blog to match, and everything seems to be working fine. It only took about 12 seconds, which was impressive. Anyway, if things are borked, this’ll be why. Please let me know!
