Archive for January 2006
How do people play games?
An interesting experiment to see how people play video games. They used the NES version of Gradius to see what decisions people make whilst playing. The people who played this game are clearly very good at it (at least better than me) and the thing has been presented as a single video with all the players overlaid so that you can see who does what. It looks cool but I lost track of what was going on about five ...
Movie Roundup – January 06
The TerminalI wasn't expecting much from this, but simply because of Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg figured it was worth a try. The film itself was a quite nice enjoyable simple little movie. Apparently the film was inspired by Merhan Karimi Nasseri an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988 (apparently he is still there).
Catch Me If You CanAnother Tom Hanks ...
Bubble Blitz Online
Something I have wanted to do with Binary Sun for a while now is get some online games. The obvious solution would be to add some games made in Flash, but I don't like to do things the easy way.
So Bubble Blitz, a downloadable Exe game, is now playable in a browser - assuming of course you use Windows (a Mac version would be lovely though - I'm looking into sorting that out).
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Tron & Depeche Mode
I'm not a huge fan of Tron or Depeche Mode, but Michael at Binary Bonsai posted about a fan made video music video featuring footage from Tron with music provided by the band. It's quite cool, and I know a very big Depeche Mode fan who will at least find it interesting.
The only problem is that nowadays, when someone mentions Tron, I think of this.
Nintendo DS redesign
I got a Nintendo DS for Christmas (I'll talk about it later) but Nintendo are now talking about the redesigned version.
Yesterday they said we wouldn't see a redesign before E3, today they have released the first information, including images, of the Nintendo DS Lite - a redesigned DS.
Nintendo have gone very Apple with their recent designs (does anyone else thing the new console looks like the Revolution controller?) - I don't see that as a bad thing.
4 Things
I've been tagged by Phu over at ifElse so here's my list of 4 Things...
Four jobs that I've hadFlash Games & Web Developer 3d Artist Sales person in a record store Sales person in a pet shopFour movies I can watch over and overDonnie Darko Oldboy Lord of the Rings Star WarsFour places I have livedLondon London London Note: I've only ever lived in and around London, but I have lived in 3 different places within LondonFour TV shows I like to watchLost The ...Flowers for Jack
Many of us hate Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson hates all of us. Let's send pretty, pretty flowers to him.
Jack Thompson is fast making a name for himself as a prize pillock. He is a lawyer who attacks video games as 'Murder Simulators' and 'Sex Simulators'. I don't know about you but I would think murdering people for real is slightly different to murdering people in a game. I've never had sex in a video game but don't think ...
The Cult of the Mac
I recently turned to the dark side and got a Mac... well... an iPod Nano to be specific (so not a Mac at all then). It was actually my Christmas present from work and is quite a nice little mp3 player. However, having used it for a few weeks I have a few things to say (about Mac's in general).
InterfaceOne of the things you will hear absolutely everywhere, is all the ...
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