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21 Jun 2006

Miniclip wins Webby Award – I get to go to New York

A couple of weeks ago I was taken to New York for the 10th annual Webby Awards. Miniclip, the company I work for, had won the peoples voice award for gaming and the boss was kind enough to invite me...
09 Jun 2006

Movie Review – Confetti

It’s a bit late now but a couple of weekends ago my girlfriend and I went to see a new Brit flick, Confetti, at the cinema.Like Spinal Tap and, more recently, The Office – Confetti (FWIW Tim, Martin Freeman, from...
07 Jun 2006

Movie Roundup – May 06

Star Wars – Clone Wars – Series 2Not the movie but the cartoon series. Saw the first series a while ago and, whilst I thought it was ok, wasn’t overly impressed. The main problem was a lack of narrative –...
20 May 2006

Review : Shadow of the Colossus

I’d been looking forward to Shadow of the Colossus for some time, and on the 17th of February 2006 it was finally released in the UK.For the uneducated, Shadow of the Colossus is the follow up (but not a sequel...
16 May 2006

New Super Mario Brothers

I am almost as excited about this as I am about the new Zelda game (almost, but not quite). New Super Mario Brothers wallpaper Head on over to the official, New Super Mario Brothers, website to get all the info...
14 May 2006

E3 2006 hi-lights

This was definitely Nintendo’s year at E3. They wiped the floor with everyone, having the most compelling games and most innovative hardware.I’ve already done a very brief summary of the 3 big conferences over at the 9rules blog but I...
13 May 2006

Mission Impossible 3

Went to the cinema the other day to see Mission Impossible 3.Unfortunately I can’t decide whether I liked it or not. There was lots of action, some of it quite cool, and it was a lot more emotional than previous...
04 May 2006

Movie Roundup – April 06

Analyze ThisOne for the ‘Not what I expected’ pile. I know it was loved when released but for me it underperformed. Didn’t help that I was ill when I was watching it, which meant that I couldn’t concentrate properly.William Shakespeare’s...
23 Apr 2006

Regulus – WordPress Theme version 2.1.2

A small update with a few new features. The reason for this post, rather than updating the last post, is that I now consider Regulus complete. Barring any show stopping bugs there will be no new updates to Regulus, it’s...
11 Apr 2006

Regulus – WordPress Theme version 2.1

It’s been a while since I updated Regulus but with the recent release of widgets I had to do something.The success of Regulus has gone beyond my wildest expectations, and I really appreciate all the support and feedback I have...
05 Apr 2006

Movie Roundup – March 06

SerenitySerenity is a spin off movie from the cult tv show Firefly. The show only lasted one series, and I haven’t seen a single episode, however the producer, Joss Whedon, also worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer one of the...
15 Mar 2006

Prototype number 1

I’ve been very busy recently so the dev diary has been the thing that takes a back seat (again). Also I have never liked releasing things this early in case people aren’t impressed/ interested, or simply because I don’t want...
05 Mar 2006

Movie Roundup – February 06

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindJim Carrey… in a serious movie… whatever next? Ok, he’s done some straighter less comedic stuff before, but this is the most serious I’ve ever seen Jim Carey act and he pulls it off rather...
15 Feb 2006

Off with their Huds (video game huds that is)

An interesting article about in game interfaces and how they’re slowly dieing out. First, it’s important to answer the question, ‘What is a HUD?’ A HUD is simply a collection of persistent on screen elements whose purpose is to indicate...
13 Feb 2006

I’m O.K – video game violence

In my last post I mentioned me having my own opinions on the whole “video games are murder simulators” debate. Well I thought I’d run through them briefly – and also point you to a new video game made specifically...
04 Feb 2006

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...
30 Jan 2006

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...
27 Jan 2006

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...
14 Jan 2006

Dev Diary : Design

Well – I got a little behind with my dev diary. First Regulus became rather more popular than I expected, and then EbayEd sunk without a trace (FWIW I never expected it to be popular – it IS rather limited...
08 Jan 2006

Prince of Persia – Two Thrones

I’m a huge fan of Prince of Persia, Sands of Time. It was a visual feast using glowing pastels colours to bring the magic of an Arabian adventure to life. There was a story that was told mainly through the...

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