It was cloudy, dreary and rainy outside today, but the best thing about a flight simulator is that you can choose to ignore the real weather if you want to. Certainly you can set FSX to pull down and then update current meteorological conditions, but then who wants to fly in rainy weather when they […]
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Natal – the next Machinima tool
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Gaming, Production
I literally minutes ago was thinking of Machinima production – I’ve been trying to plot out some sort of Sims3 series for a while now. My problem with Sims3 though is that it has a lot of restrictions when it comes to filming. Sims3 is a very closed environment, although it’s a lot better now […]
Had enough of Tomb Raider: Underworld
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Gaming
Well I wasn’t impressed with Underworld much besides the visual quality of the game. Underworld is stunning in its visual detail and lighting and overall environmental design. If I could just watch the whole game being played I would – I’d pop the popcorn and sit back to watch the story unfold in the various […]
Tags:fail·ps3·tomb raider
Red Bull Air Racing in Home
January 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Gaming
Logged into Home today to check out the new content, namely the Red Bull island that let you pilot three different-skinned Extra 300 aircraft around a race course, just like they do in real life. The controls are basic and the flight model is arcady, but it’s not supposed to be a flight sim. There’s […]
More Tomb Raider thoughts
January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gaming
As I suspected, the gunplay in Tomb Raider is nowhere near the level that Uncharted managed to acheive. You pretty much lock on and shoot at stuff, and it seems you have a limited range in which you can deal out damage as well. You can switch between targets, and Lara will even divide her […]
Tags:tomb raider·uncharted
First Foray into Tomb Raider
January 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gaming
So I’ve never played a Tomb Raider game before, mainly because I was never much of a platformer gamer back in the day. I liked my strategy games and flight simulators mainly. The only FPS game I’ve ever really liked (and really played) for the computer is Deus Ex (of course on console that would […]
Tags:ps3·tomb raider
It had to happen sometime…
December 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Gaming
So Xmas Eve I logged into Playstation Home because it had been updated to v1.5, which restored voice chat (thankfully only to private areas like clubs and personal spaces). I had forgotten to bring down my bluetooth keyboard that I use for my computer, so I found a nice quiet spot in the Central Plaza, […]
Playstation Home – my experience so far
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Gaming
Home? What? So Playstation Home has officially been out for a week now. It’s basically an over-hyped Second Life for the PS3 console, and when I say over-hyped, I mean over-hyped. This thing has been in development for years and everytime someone asks Sony what it’s all about they say “the next big thing” or […]
Adventures in Freeburn Online
November 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Gaming
So I’ve been hooked lately on Burnout: Paradise’s online game mode Freeburn, and the Challenges that they have for you to accomplish. With 1-7 other players you have to complete a task either individually (like each getting 500 yards of drift) or as a team (like jumping over each other using ramps). Individual challenges usually […]
Tags:burnout paradise·ps3
Just a quickie…
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Gaming
I got to 70% again for the second time on The Devil Went Down to Georgia (expert). Just wanted to record the event for posterity’s sake. If I had activated Star Power instead of toughing out a note-bashing section, I prob could have made it a few percent further, however I was trying to save […]
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