That guy on the left looks like he can't believe what console can do these days! Awesome!
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Bullshot
Bullshot: A screenshot that's been edited, usually Photoshopped.
Photoshop: Am not gonna bother explaining what this is. If you don't know, you're on the wrong blog :p
Now, some game publishers have been known to send out Bullshots every now and then. Just a few "little" changes, to make the game look a bit better, or shinier, etc etc.
EA recently sent out this "screenshot" of their upcoming NBA 08 title. But, it most definitely is a Bullshot. Why? Have a good look at it (click to enlarge) and tell me if you've spotted it.
If you can't see it, I've put the answer in the comments ;)
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Oh.My.God.
I have just finished playing the Bioshock demo. Out on Xbox Live this am, the servers were so hammered that it took me 13 hours to download the 1.35gig demo, something that normally takes about 40 minutes.
And man was it worth it! Bioshock is a shooter, a FPS to be exact. Bringing nothing new to the table whatsoever: Guns, Magic (or genetics as it calls it), even hacking devices and turrets is old territory. What it does have though is AMAZING atmosphere! It recreates a 60's utopia like nothing before it, really giving the underwater city a feeling that it was once a great place. Now turned in to hell. Everything has character, every single detail in the game has been meticulously crafted. And nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has been overlooked. I spent ages reading the posters and adverts from when people lived in Rapture.
Add to that the great graphics (Unreal Engine 3), and really good sound (period music, freaky sounds, conversations overheard, people muttering to themselves, and of course the "little sisters" babbling or singing nursery rhymes while they suck the blood out of a corpse-all VERY unsettling!) and this is a game that has the potential of being the best shooter, setting a landmark for all future games.
Half Life 2 move over. Your time as best FPS is over. Bioshock is here to stay.
Full game out 24/08/07 (PC/360). Get it. You owe it to yourselves.
And man was it worth it! Bioshock is a shooter, a FPS to be exact. Bringing nothing new to the table whatsoever: Guns, Magic (or genetics as it calls it), even hacking devices and turrets is old territory. What it does have though is AMAZING atmosphere! It recreates a 60's utopia like nothing before it, really giving the underwater city a feeling that it was once a great place. Now turned in to hell. Everything has character, every single detail in the game has been meticulously crafted. And nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has been overlooked. I spent ages reading the posters and adverts from when people lived in Rapture.
Add to that the great graphics (Unreal Engine 3), and really good sound (period music, freaky sounds, conversations overheard, people muttering to themselves, and of course the "little sisters" babbling or singing nursery rhymes while they suck the blood out of a corpse-all VERY unsettling!) and this is a game that has the potential of being the best shooter, setting a landmark for all future games.
Half Life 2 move over. Your time as best FPS is over. Bioshock is here to stay.
Full game out 24/08/07 (PC/360). Get it. You owe it to yourselves.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
YouGamers
I was doing my usual web trawl just now, and someone on a forum had posted about YouGamers. A site owned by Futuremark, YouGamers looks like a clumsy run-of-the-mill gaming site, with the usual news/previews etc etc.
What makes it very unique (and useful) is that it focuses on PC gaming, and contains something called the Game-O-Meter. A Futuremark ActiveX plugin that measures your system and compares it to a game's minimum specs, and recommended specs.
Very useful stuff, all you gotta do is find a game, and then check your system. If you're doing it for the first time you'll have to let Explorer install the ActiveX plugin, otherwise after under a minute you'll get a metre showing you how your system compares to the game. Clever.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Vista hotfixes now available!
Leaked from MS, 2 hotfixes are now available for Vista. Mind you, you can't get them through Windows Update, but you'll have to download them yourselves from MS.
The first is a "performance fix", which does lots of nonsecurity related bug squashes, one of which apparantly resolves a video-game crashing thingie.
The other is a "reliability fix", whatever that means.
Most importantly though, the damn bug that let Vista take ages copying a file from one volume to another while it was "Calculating time remaining" has been fixed! To copy a small file to a USB pen for example would stall while it was calculating, now this has FINALLY been sorted. And yes, I've tried it and it's all fine now!!
Go get your knickers in a twist over here.
Now, who's for some frag-khana?
The first is a "performance fix", which does lots of nonsecurity related bug squashes, one of which apparantly resolves a video-game crashing thingie.
The other is a "reliability fix", whatever that means.
Most importantly though, the damn bug that let Vista take ages copying a file from one volume to another while it was "Calculating time remaining" has been fixed! To copy a small file to a USB pen for example would stall while it was calculating, now this has FINALLY been sorted. And yes, I've tried it and it's all fine now!!
Go get your knickers in a twist over here.
Now, who's for some frag-khana?
Monday, August 06, 2007
Q3A Celebration!
Somehow yesterday we managed to set a world breaking FIVE (!!) players all together in Quake 3.
Yes, that's right, me, Haniboy, Nile Warp, Blue Blood, and Fuji all got together for a fragfest.
To celebrate that we all managed to get connected first time around (miracle?!) we did a little totem-pole. Fuji at the base, SoB in the middle, and Nile in the COOLEST pose you'll ever see in a Quake game.
Rock on more games!!
