Community Ramblings

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Snow madness causes Game Server usage to significantly increase, mainly in part to massive increase in people being stranded at home. ...Read More

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Ubisoft, we love you

Ubisoft, we love you

Call me childish but the word assassin still makes me giggle like a little girl. Anyhow this is one of the games i was looking forward too, and pretty much everyone was waiting for this from the Ubisoft briefing.

The game will take place in the year 1486 in Venice, Italy during the Renaissance period.  The trailer shows off some truly breathtaking visuals, including some “tricks” up the new assassin’s sleeves.  On top of the knives… ...Read More

Monday, June 1st, 2009
What can we expect from 3.0?

What can we expect from 3.0?

Ever since the start of the internet there has been some sort of design to the way it looked. Have it be the green and black display of the 80s, through to the high powered graphic powers of the year 2009, you name it there was a design. Currently we’re in the second generation of web design, but what does that really mean? what does it mean that I’m using web 2.0? what can… ...Read More

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Ever went back to a old console? For the nostalgia value?

I did last night. Man, I’ve forgotten how fun the ps2 was. Forgot all the highs- Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Collousus, Jak and Daxter…

Probably just me on the last one.

Anywhos, the first thing I noticed on starting a quick* game of resi 4 was how alien the control pad was to me. Lost count of how many times I automatically reached for a mouse that wasn’t there and dropped the controller as a result.

My total amount of deaths at the… ...Read More

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Far Cry 2Every single time there is a game released, and its successful, you can bet your life savings the developers are thinking….. “well they loved that lets give them more”. And thus, we get sequels.
But are the developers really thinking that? Or is it more, well they loved that, lets milk them a bit more by giving them the same game, sugar-coated to look nicer and up the price by £20?
On the other hand though, I have to