An old school-friend of mine who has a background in graphic design (and pretty much all things visually creative) has recently gone freelance. If anyone needs any rebranding, logos designed or if you just want to check out some really very lovely images, get in contact with Michael at Pixeldaddy.
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I wish I could blog about the new Xbox 360 dashboard right now. I got onto the beta programme last month, but now I’m kinda wishing I hadn’t. It needs to update at least twice a week, and I’ve still not got used to the new layout. Ah well, everyone will have it soon, so we’ll all be in the same boat. Posted from WordPress for Windows Phone I’ve finally gotten around to updating my Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 7.5 (codename: Mango), only a month after it came out… Why have I not updated sooner? I got the notification that the update was available for my phone about a week ago… What’s been eating at my time? Batman: Arkham City. Such a good game, so empowering. Anything else new to report? Yeah, I’ve decided upon a change of career, or at least a side-career capable of adding to my monthly income. Website design and developing applications for Windows Phones… I’m not a total novice when it comes to design, but I’ve never done anything from the ground up, it’s only ever been tweaks of stylesheets here, edits of templates there, so it should be interesting. And as for creating apps… Well, I’ve heard WP7 is easy to develop for, and Microsoft are great at supporting creativity. What’s the worst that can happen? Anyway, I can’t sit on this screen for too long as my phone is updating as we speak, I wanna go babysit it, make sure everything goes ok. Although the thing is, I’ve not been Mango’d. I’m just trying to be. I keep forcing the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update onto my phone, but all I’m getting is the Omnia bug. Again. I guess I’ll wait until Orange officially release it to me, and it pops up “An update for your phone is ready”, then I shouldn’t have driver issues. Fucking drivers. I’m back down to just under 16 stone after piling on half a stone on holiday. It wasn’t too hard actually (being active helps), I thought it’d take longer. I finished Transformers: War For Cybertron. The class I was looking forward to, Scientist, turned out to not be as good as I’d hoped. Ah well. I was hoping to fly in, dispatch someone with my Shotgun, then zoom off again, but it never worked out like that. Soldier was ok, bit of a powerhouse but ultimately too slow for my liking. Scout was good fun: turning invisible and sneaking around, or sniping bitches from miles away. The Leader class was probably my favourite. Buffs, homing mines, lots of residual-damage causing gadgets, and decent weaponry. Good stuff. Still, Scientist was good for the discovery I made. King Of The Hill style games gave out way more points per-minute than straight up Slayer games, and as a jet I could swoosh in, let off a Shockwave and spawn a turret, capture the node, then dash out again. In games where other people had that idea, you could just spend the entire game chasing opposing nodes, building up insane amounts of EXP. Good game, I enjoyed it. I also finished my 60th Xbox game, Ionball EX, on my phone. It wasn’t that great. Enjoyable as far as Arkanoid clones go, but nothing special. Next post I write will be about Vanquish. I’ve finished it already (on Hard, no less), but there are still a few Achievements to mop up, and some collectables to be shot. It’s really good fun, and was a bargain £12 from Asda.
Unsolved: Why won’t it let me upload images, dammit? None of the posts on the first page of Waves have images on them whatsoever, it looks so bland! I will contact our hosts, they are very understanding and helpful when it comes to things like this. I’ll have a ramble about what I’m currently playing while I’m here: Carrying on the Transformers theme from Dark Of The Moon, I have been playing Transformers: War For Cybertron. It’s actually quite good. I didn’t like the demo, but the game was dirt cheap, and I wanted to play a game as a giant transformable robot, blowing up other giant transformable robots. And my, some of them are bloody giant – and I’m glad they never tacked Unicron on the end like that Transformers game on PS2. The Campaign is decent – it tells a good story, and the multiplayer (which takes a bit of getting used to) is great fun. The class based system works really well, and I love the art direction. Kinda takes the old G1 look and updates it so it’s a bit more like the Michael Bay films, but retains a little of the cartoonification. If that is a word. Check out the WFC Shockwave to the right here. Stylish. I’m currently working my way up the ranks of multiplayer after having polished off all the single-player Achievements. I will get all my classes up to 25 and unlock Prime mode! Edit: I contacted our hosts and they have magically fixed my uploading issue. They are so good to me. You know I said last week that my phone wasn’t updating? Well, it worked for no apparent reason just now – I didn’t change anything, it just worked. The system works, I embrace our Microsoft overlords, etc. Also, and I’m not sure if I should announce this (LIKE ANYONE READS THIS ANYWAY LOL), but Jasmine is gonna have a little brother or sister soon! My new niece/nephew is due on the 19th of December! So happy for David and Katie, so so happy right now! I completed my 50th Xbox game today, geoDefense, on my phone. It was a nice little game, but not as mentally taxing as some other tower defence style games. You could simply plow through most levels with as many fully upgraded regular gun turrets as you could cram into the arena. For the few levels that required a different approach, all you needed to do was erect a couple of turrets that slowed the creeps down, simple as that. All in all, gaming on my phone is really quite good fun. It’s like having a handheld Xbox, kind of. Well, I guess it is a portable Microsoft console, isn’t it? I’m totally loving my Windows phone, not just for the achievements. Having Facebook and Twitter and everything all available to me whenever I want them is just so convenient, and I love that it’s so easy to share photos. I’ve only got two problems with it. One is the lack of custom ringtones and alert tones (Jane has the Zelda: Ocarina of Time “puzzle partially solved” noise as her text alert tone – I’m so jealous), and I can’t seem to update the software on it. It tells me there’s an update ready, but I just can’t get it to work. I’ve given up on my TrueAchievement goal of getting an achievement completion ratio of 80%+… All these new games I’ve started on my phone and Xbox and barely touched… It’ll get there eventually as most of the remaining ones to go for are based on lengthy play, but there’s no point in making a rush for it. The race to 60k is still on though, and I’ve only recently really made a play for it thanks to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, Portal 2, Dead Space and numerous WP7 games. I’m currently at 57,000ish, and looking good for hitting the 60,000 before the year is out. I really need to write up my thoughts on all the great games I’ve played recently.  Todd is my favourite Evil Ex. Why? See title of post. So, I decided to investigate Zune Player on the ol’ Xbox 360. I rented Scott Pilgrim vs the World last week – I wasn’t sure if I’d like it enough to buy it (which turned out to be a massive understatement). Loved it, every second, so much so that I bought the two disc version on DVD (for the extras, which I just knew would be good) and I have now got the graphic novels which spawned the movie – got them on Amazon for under £25, bargain. Although there are some discrepancies between the comics and the film, it’s all good. I don’t feel Lisa would’ve added much to the film, and some moments that would’ve been missing have been switched to other characters, but yeah, all in all, they compliment each other well. I’ll go into more detail when I do a write up of the books, I think. So yeah, that was a success, but earlier today I rented Inception. By no means a bad movie, I enjoyed it very much, but I can’t quite understand why everyone I spoke to about it said “YOU MUST WATCH THIS AMAZING FILM”. It was ok. Still been playing Reach, but not to the extent I was – Fable III has knocked it from it’s perch a little. I still log on to do some Daily Challenges now and again, but it’s not my focus right now. I wasn’t sure of Fable III at first, but it has proven to be a nice game. The story is probably better than that of the second game – becoming King and doing Royal stuff is quite novel. Some of the quests were really great too. Although a fair few were near-identical to quests from the first two games, a few really pushed the boundaries and were so entertaining I actually forgot they were simple “kill all the bad guys” or “collect and return this item” quests. There are some things I dislike about it (not being able to target specific points on enemies – shooting the gun out of mercenaries hands was entertaining), but also things I do think are good additions (holding hands for one – actually taking someone by the hand and leading them to a place is easier than them following you and getting lost), but I think Chibi said it best: “One day, someone will make a great Fable game. But at this rate, it won’t be Lionhead”. I concur. Work is going well – Slowly but surely I am subtly re-organising things. I actually look forward to going in and making a difference, which is a good sign when it comes to your job, isn’t it? Hopefully we’ll get everything in alphabetical order eventually, and get it through to my fellow Colleagues that putting stock in alphabetical order is generally a good thing. Makes it easier to find for one thing, and it looks tidier too. Anyway, yeah, it’s going great. Hang on – I just remembered that Fable II was all about The Spire – Fable II wins in the story stakes. This was originally posted on GRcade by Zenigame, but for those of you who missed it, I’ve decided to reproduce it here.
I wondered why that guy was so very intent on tea-bagging and shooting my corpse! Shame he didn’t catch me in the next match I had – I went for 24 kills and 0 deaths and was pretty much a wall of death. |
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Resolved: I think I have finally solved the spambot issue on the forum. I have installed new countermeasures that will hopefully stop them dead in their tracks, but still allow new users to get through as long as they have a tiny understanding of what RF! is all about.
