Archive for 'Games'
Team Fortress 2: Meet the Scout
by Chris on April 19th, 2008 @ 2:02 pm - Tag (Games) No Comments. 21 Views
Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, I hurt people.
The comedy and timing is spot on as with all of Valve’s “Meet the…” series. The animation and quality of directing is excellent and i would literally kill to have a weekly show produced.
12 Days to go till GTA IV
by Chris on April 16th, 2008 @ 11:00 pm - Tag (Games) 3 Comments. 242 Views
Only 12 days to go till Grand Theft Auto IV hits the street. Below is the UK tv trailer…i will be awall for the entire week of the 29th 
There’s an interesting article over on eurogamer.net about how well GTA IV could sell.
Zero Gear - Go Kart Mayhem
by Chris on March 11th, 2008 @ 2:33 am - Tag (Friends, Games) 2 Comments. 893 Views
An old core friend of mine (David ‘Zaphod’ Marsh) is working on go kart racing game called Zero Gear. It’s shaping up to be a very pretty looking game. I can only hope that i get my grubby mitts on it soon to see if it plays as good as it looks and knowing Zaphod it will.
Check out some of the latest screen shots and videos at NimbleBit.
Incoming Transmission…
by Chris on January 14th, 2008 @ 6:32 pm - Tag (Games, Life) 3 Comments. 787 Views
I’m coming to you live from the boggy shores of Zangarmarsh in Outland and i must say it’s a war zone down here kids.
Yep, that’s right you’ve lost me to the world which is Warcraft…again. Over the Xmas and the new year with a lot of down time during the day i log back into my account and got the bug again 
. I’m making an effort to limit my play time, so normal service should resume. If you fancy joining me in some PVP you can find me on Khadgar. My main characters name is Axera.
I’m going to try and make regular post from now on. 
New Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer
by Chris on December 6th, 2007 @ 9:09 pm - Tag (Games) 1 Comment. 1,266 Views
GTA IV:
Motorbikes…check
Choppers…check
Uncensored violence and kick ass soundtrack…check
Call of Duty 4 Servers Galore
by Chris on December 4th, 2007 @ 12:19 am - Tag (Games) No Comments. 125 Views
I’m testing out what might be a better and cheaper CoD4 server, also it has Vent…which i think i will let CJ look after :P.
CoD4 = 217.163.30.22:28960
Private slots setup for mapcorians, give me a shout for the password.
Call of Duty 4 Server
by Chris on November 27th, 2007 @ 3:06 pm - Tag (Games) No Comments. 71 Views
Yosh, I’ve fallen in love with CoD4 multiplayer so much i’ve sorted out a dedicated server. Some come play with me
217.146.84.84:28930
irc.gamesurge.net #mapcore
Sex Pistols GuitarHero III UK Launch
by Chris on November 26th, 2007 @ 1:20 pm - Tag (Games) No Comments. 42 Views
Footage i took at the Guitar Hero 3 launch party press conference with Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols.
Does anyone know how you can upload video longer then 10 mins to YouTube? Not so keen on google video.
Slackering off
by Chris on November 26th, 2007 @ 1:11 pm - Tag (Games, Life) 2 Comments. 0 Views
So I’ve been slacking off recently with updating my blog. Most of my evenings have been taken up with building my new computer, which i might add is now complete. It’s a beast that I’ve fittingly named ‘Hellish Moose’, specs below.
Case - Zalman GT1000
Cool - Zalman Reserator XT (D-Tek Block)
PSU – Galaxy 850W
Screen - Dell 2407WFP-HC
Mobo - Evga A1
CPU - QX6850
GPU - Evga 8800GTX BP
RAM - Quad2X4096-8500C5DF
HDD - 2xRaptorX 150gb (in Raid0)
SPU - X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
3DMark06 – 13,350 (no oc)
So naturally with a spanking new computer i bought a load of new system demanding PC games. Of course Crysis was first on my list to see how badly it would bring my computer to it’s knees, also UT3 for some chaotic fun and then CoD4…and here the problems start.
Steam as of late has done a fantastic job of impressing me. The launch of Orange box was smooth, the addition of community features was fantastic. So with that in mind i purchased CoD4 over steam. It download an ran perfectly…for the first two days, then i was hit with the most informative error message…EVER. “This game is currently unavailable”, sorry come again?! This isn’t a MMO, nore does CoD4 have an online profile, so why can’t i play a game that sitting on my hard drive.
There were many solutions going around to fix the problem but nothing definitive. In the end changing the language to french then back to English worked for me, can’t tell you why but it did. So it ran once again, then Punk Buster updated and now see’s Steam’s overlay as a hack, Punk Busters advice…Turn it off. Awesome integration there guys. Then Punk Buster moaned about Kaspersky blocking one or more of it’s connections. Again Punk Busters advice…turn it off. Yes I’m really going to do that.
I finally figured out that the only thing interfering with Punk Busters was the Proactive Defense program for the registry. So i just have to remember to disable that when playing CoD4, or not play on Punk Buster enabled servers which are few and far between. Not ideal but it’s a quick fix to play such an awesome game.
I just hope Punk Buster and Steam communicate a bit more with each other to solve this problem quickly and create a system of testing for future updates.
Mazy.net: The Phantom Halo Menace?
by Chris on October 28th, 2007 @ 3:32 pm - Tag (Friends, Games) 1 Comment. 220 Views
Mazy has posted a rather interesting comparison between ‘HALO’ and ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’. It’s a bizarre one, but some of the likeness are uncanny…specially the Gungan and Jackal Shields.
You can read the full article here.