Month: August, 2009
Movie Review: Moon
It’s taken absolutely forever for this Movie to start showing in a Cinema near me, but it was absolutely worth the wait! Spoilers within.
Kablammooooo!
Something went a little wrong Saturday morning with the server, and after 2 days of rest everything appears to be back now(thanks to Andy!). Sods law it was the sites busiest week since i’ve started tracking! Fairly uneventful weekend apart from that, a little more Virtual On progress which i’ll post about properly tonight, really [...]
Saltaire Boathouse… it’s back!
Last April, I blogged about the tragic fire which wrecked one of Saltaires classic buildings and left it’s future in doubt. Well not anymore, it reopened today!
Virtual On Twin Stick Project – Worklog 1
Slow and steady progress this week as I was up being sick from 5am yesterday and spent the rest of the day feeling sorry for myself. What I have done is break open my component parts and have a good nose around…
Fallout 3 Addon Retrospective
With all 5 Fallout 3 addons downloaded and played through, I thought i’d write a little bit about each addon for my personal game of the decade. Obviously this article will contain minor spoilers and plot points.
Virtual On Twin Stick Project – BEGIN
Ever since Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram was announced for Xbox 360 i’ve thought it would be really cool to make my own twin sticks – especially when the Hori sticks were announced to cost $300! I milled around online and in shops looking for old 2-axis 2-button joysticks which could work, but without any other real [...]
Microsoft, destroyer of trees
When I cracked open the awesome red Xbox 360 pad + play and charge kit Rich and Alice bought me for my birthday I was greeted by 9(count em, nine!) instruction manuals in various languages. Instead of localising the booklets for each country or better still just doing ikea-style visual guides Microsoft seem to think [...]
Birthday Fun
Yesterday was my 26th birthday (i’m starting to feel old!) and Emma took me on the Steam train at Keighley and Worth Valley Railway! Despite Keighley itself being a bit of a dive, the station is really well kept with loads of classic adverts, signs and fittings.
Pic-a-day(at least) from instagram
