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Archive for February 2006

Games are good for you

A new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable.

Barely a day goes by when video games, generally Grand Theft Auto, are blamed for something evil. But that doesn't mean they are bad. I have my own views on the whole "video games are murder simulators" debate, and maybe I'll write them up one ...

The Hoff and Pepsi

Thumbnail : The Hoff and Pepsi

I found out today the the Hoff is doing some promo work for Pepsi Australia.

You can see what he's up to on the Hoff micro site

Oh - and just as a little extra. Apparently David is planning to bring back baywatch. Should be interesting.

FFVII: Advent Children dated

Final Fantasy Advent Children now has a UK release date. Hoorah

Final Fantasy : Spirits Within looked stunning, but it suffered from the uncanny valley effect, and a rather convoluted confusing story. The new film has used a more cartoony/ manga style sidestepping the whole realism aspect, and giving the possibility of more exagerrated action.

I'm looking forward to it.

Brokeback to the Future – A work of genius

Some people have far to much time on their hands, but in this case I'll let them off.

Brokeback to the Future, i'll never think of Doc Brown the same way again.

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Adsense

The more observant amongst you will have noticed that I have recently added Adsense ads to Binary Moon. What you most likely won't have noticed, unless you checked out Bubble Blitz online, is that I've also added them to Binary Sun.

Why Binary Moon?

I'm not overly keen on advertising but I thought I would try them out. To keep things nice the ads on Binary Moon will only be visible in certain places.

If you are on a post with ...

The making of Shadow of the Colossus

A very interesting article on the developement of Shadow of the Colossus - the PS2 game that is due to come out in England in a couple of weeks. The article is very technically oriented so if you're not into game development it probably won't be of interest, but anyone who is interested - there are quite a few cool techniques that you may be able to 'borrow' from.

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I have been working on the internet since 1998, and working with computers even longer. I am a hardcore Nintendo fanboy and have owned most of their consoles at one stage or another.

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