Archive | November, 2008

Day of the Triffids makes a return

“Day of the Triffids” is a great classic British Sci-fi mini-series. The BBC have remade the concept a number of times but this one done in 1981 is by far the best. Everyone knows the concept. Meteors rain down over the planet blinding everyone who watches them. Then the planet is over run with man [...]

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Achievement Unlocked

Not going to get in the habit of doing this every month (would be annoying) but just nice to see a month from launch things are still rolling along nicely, I’ve really enjoyed working on the blog so far and look forward to posting/designing allot more over the next year.

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The Season of Games – Part 2

Mini followup to my first post. The Season of Games continues, 20 days later and I’ve finished one game (quite an achievement for me) and started to play two more. Fallout 3 – (Completed) Was the first game of the season and I enjoyed it allot, very immersive experience with allot of really nice idea’s [...]

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Nintendo does me over once more

I have been a fan of Nintendo for a long time. Ever since I was lucky enough to get an original two screen Donkey Kong pocket LCD game. I missed the NES because I was busy cutting my teeth on the ZX Spectrum and Atari ST. But I can still clearly remember Christmas day 1992. [...]

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The IT Crowd – Series 3 – This Friday

Series 3 of the “The IT Crowd” starts this Friday, Channel 4, 22:00.  If you have never seen “The IT Crowd” you are missing out a great show from one the creators of “Father Ted”. In a stroke a genius, if you look at the channel 4 web site for the show, you will notice [...]

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Guitar Hero World Tour (GH4)

While I don’t own Guitar Hero World Tour, I know a man who does. Pre-ordered from play and got the full set including the free Guitar Hero 2 wired controller (nice).  Anway I’ve had a long enough play through to have a good judgement on the game. We canned it over the weekend and have [...]

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Watching the watchman

I am looking forward to seeing this film. I am out of touch with comics, I think living in the UK means its much harder to actually get them. Let alone follow the trends (but that is because I am out-of-the-loop). But everything I have seen from Alan Moore is astounding. I know he hates [...]

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Left 4 Dead – I would leave it that way

Last night I finally got to play “Left 4 Dead”, a game that I have been waiting almost a year to play. The premise is simple. You and a group of three others are stranded in a city over run with zombies. But not just zombies all manner of other evil incarnations built around the [...]

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M$ X-box 360 Auto Renewal Rip Off

Here’s the long winded tale of how I saved money on my 360 renewal. Hopefully you can learn to do this the EASY way unlike my way which was definitely the irritating way… So here’s what happened: MISTAKE #1 – I did not change my payment type MISTAKE #2 – My credit card expired MISTAKE [...]

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R2 wants a snack

Rough sketch I drew for some reason, thought I might as well share it.

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