Archive For March, 2011
A few games I found recently while sorting through boxes at home: Quake 3 tin box, Linux edition. I wrote an article about this for the Irish Times a few years ago. Double Dragon, C64 version, I posted pictures of this before of course. Gyroscope, the first 5 1/4 disk based game I owned on [...]
The wonderful thing about PC games is the competition among online retailers and the lower than console prices charged for most games. While Xbox Live now has older full price games for download they’re usually given a premium price too. Steam and the other online PC game stores regularly have sales where even big name [...]
I’m downloading Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition from gog.com. I don’t expect it to have aged gracefully but I figure I got so much fun out of the shareware version many years ago that I should give the full game a go. It’s only $5.99 too!
Some gameplay from a few games the other night on my second PSN account, xeer2000. Played with David, Conor and Miquel and had a great time. Watch as I level up to level 2 and get about halfway to level 3!
Many moons ago I wrote about where my handle xeer came from. A planet in the classic 8-bit game Elite was called Xeer. Unknown to me, Xeer is also the polycentric legal system of Somalia! Back in 2003 someone asked to use my hotmail account of the same name but I declined and found out [...]
TyeWebb’s first Bad Company 2 commentary and it’s great. As a console player on PC he came across many of the same problems I had/have with the different control mechanics. He’s a lot further on in the game now and runs rings around me whenever we’re placed on different teams!
Yes well, I’d rather have some free gold but this budget shooter, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is free to play all weekend on PC. Fire up your Steam client and the game will download when you click the link in the news page. Or so I presume it will as I [...]
The Moriarty Tribunal cost the Irish tax payer more than 100 million Euro and all we got was a 2,400 page protected PDF. If you view the report’s PDF files you won’t be able to quote from it by selecting and copying text. You’ll have to manually type out anything you want to extract because [...]
The Amazon Appstore for Android opened today and apparently Apple are already suing them for confusing consumers with a name similar to their App Store. I wouldn’t really know because after downloading the Appstore app (beautifully simple procedure: click a link in an email/text to a .apk file) and logging into Amazon it refused to [...]
