Friday 29 April 2011

The Film To Watch This Week?

Thor.

Kenneth Branagh has managed to not only do the story of Thor justice, but has created probably the best Marvel movie released so far.

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Portal 2, Done

Still the Easter holidays, so updates at the moment are a little lacking.

I did manage to finish Portal 2 last night though.

Friday 22 April 2011

Mortal Kombat!!!!!!

Fear not, I haven’t abandoned the blog.

It is currently the Easter holidays at the moment, and I’m quite frankly, im exhausted from work.
Easter to me means 2 things, Firstly I get to eat an enormous amount of chocolate, I have a very sweet tooth, secondly it also means that soon the summer movie's will be hitting the big screens, It is the opening of Thor 3D this week.. and i am very, very happy to be getting that in.

Monday 18 April 2011

Thor Is Almost Upon Us!

With Marvel's next movie "Thor" quickly heading our way, Empire has posted their review online, and it actually got a pretty good write up

This Week I Shall Be Buying...

Of the games released this Friday, Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat (9th in the series), I can honestly say.. Mortal Kombat will be the one game I buy this week.

I'll be frank... I hate Portal.

Saturday 16 April 2011

Mega Drive Mission Update.

Success!! I have managed to track down, and buy a Mega Drive 2 from eBay.

A working Mega Drive 2, 2 control pads (one normal 3 button, and one six button, the ones that came out when Street Fighter 2 appeared on the Mega Drive) plus 9 cartridges:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Tengen Dragons Revenge
Desert Strike
Disney Castle of illusion
Quackshot cartridge
Zoop cartridge
Arcade's Greatest Hits (includes Joust, Robotron, Defender, Sinistar & Defender II)
Mega Games 1 cartridge (includes World Cup Italia 90, Super Hang-on, Columns)

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Raining, Full Cinema, And OAP's Watching a Film

Well the weathers taken a turn for the worse today, and to be truthful I'm quite happy with it.

Contract Killer iPhone/iPad Game Review

Well, we have another iPhone/iPad app from Glu Games.

As well as the mediocre “Big Time Gangsta ”, there is also “Contract Killer”..

Really basic story overview, you play a contract killer, hitman, guy with a sniper rifle, taking out criminals who are “too dangerous to see the inside of a courtroom”. For some reason after your first mission the General, apparently he is your boss, becomes unhappy with you and takes you off his Christmas card list...

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Bye Bye Flip Camera's

I've just read over at the BBC news website that Cisco System's are shutting down their Flip video camera business

iPhone App: Replay

I love to have a rummage around the App store on my iPhone, occasionally I find something fun and interesting, more often than not though it's just a load of rubbish.

Carboot Sales, Retro Gaming, eBay, And My Childhood

While walking about a car boot sale on the seafront yesterday before work I found a stall, hardly surprising.. the place was full of them. But this stall was different, in between the large assortment of dolls, Thomas the tank engine trains, and the large amount of action figures that I recognised from my childhood, I found a box.

Sunday 10 April 2011

Sunny Days, and Mii Plaza Visitors

Well it is another sunny day, in the south west of England we are having a mini heatwave, and it's interesting to see that people are still coming into the cinema.

Friday 8 April 2011

No Augmented Reality Cards For My 3DS. I Want This!!

Most People that know me, know of my love for “stupid” T-shirts, mainly game related, and occasionally funny to people who don't have that much of a clue about video games.

I'm very tempted to add this one to the collection

Thursday 7 April 2011

Improve The Way DS Games Look on 3DS

I decided to give Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars a bit of a break today, I’m still getting annoyed with getting to the end of a mission and failing due to the untimely death of one team member.

I decided to fire up Sim City DS, who can honestly say they don’t love a bit of Sim City now and then?.

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars

Dear Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars for the 3DS,

Would it of been too much trouble adding a mid mission save point to your missions?

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Big Time Gangsta, iPhone review

I'm currently playing Big Time Gangsta from Glu games, much like mafia wars, or any of the other time consuming games on Facebook. Big Time Gangsta puts you in the shoes of a fresh out of jail "yoof" with the aim of reclaiming the "hood". In simple terms your goal is to take over the city.

LEGO Portal Sentry Gun

Do you have a mountain of LEGO? Put that mountain to use by building...
Your very own Portal sentry gun!!

Also I  have set-up an Amazon store Here.

Categories for Xbox 360, PS3 and Nintendo 3DS, I've found that Amazon can be a little steep with the prices but occasionally you can find a bargain.


Water Cooled Wii???

I've seen some interesting case modifications for consoles over the years, but never one for the Wii that wasn’t a simple paint job... until now

Public Service Announcement: Sony Under Hacker Attack

A short message for now,

Just noticing a few sites are reporting on Sony's Playstation servers being attacked by a hacker group, so if anyone was wondering why they were having trouble signing in and playing on your PS3's... there's the answer


Monday 4 April 2011

Next Few Weeks Looking Slow

I get paid from the cinema this Friday, and as always I've decided to hop onto the www.gamefaqs.com website and check the games releases for the next 4 weeks.

To be honest it doesn’t look great...

Nintendo 3DS, Day 2

I've spent some more time playing about with my 3DS today.

The built-in pedometer is telling me that I've walked over 3,000 steps since yesterday, and I've earned 10 play coins, play coins are used to purchase wanderers and puzzle pieces for the mini games in Mii Plaza.
That amount of steps does feel a little low, but I have been driven about for a good chunk of the day

Face Raiders is a lot of fun, using the camera to take a picture of someone's face and then shooting balls at the tidal wave of faces trying to kiss you is entertaining, spinning about in one spot will make you dizzy though and remember to make sure you have enough room to spin about without knocking into anyone or anything 

I'll admit I a little eager to receive my first Streetpass notification, Streetpass is the 3DS's way of communicating with another 3DS when it's in sleep mode, when you shut the lid it goes into sleep mode and when you next open it up it springs back to whatever you were doing before.

With Streetpass you can collect other Mii's for your plaza and get them to appear in some games, the Mii's originate from the Wii, they are the little avatars you create and appear in most of the fitness and sports games. 

I think I will need some more games though, Ghost Recon is fun but I will need something else to play to keep me from getting bored 

Saturday 2 April 2011

I Fell To Temptation

I did it, I went and bought myself a Nintendo 3DS (in Cosmos Black.. how many types of black are there any way?)

I'm pretty impressed with it, my only criticism is that the dock could be a little bit sturdier as it just seems a little bit flimsy to me. I've spent the last couple of hours playing about with the camera and the app's, again only one small niggle as it keeps identifying me as a baby boy... I'm almost 29, cant it see the receding hairline?

I chose a good day to get it as well, GAME had just changed their bundle offers £224.99 and a choice of a free game. I chose Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, a strategy game similar to Advance Wars on the Gameboy Advance and DS, granted it is not the best for showing the 3D off to your friends but... well I like strategy games, I could of gone and chose Street Fighter 4 3D Edition but to me that is more of a play for 10 minutes and then your done, admittedly I did almost buy Nintendogs + Cats but then remember I was 28, and male.. although I'm still fighting temptation

Friday 1 April 2011