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No More Darwinians

Donncha O Caoimh — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:21:14 +0000

Oh well, Darwinia was one of my favourite purchases of 2011 but Introversion are done with Darwinia however. Thanks Gnomeslair for the link.

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Humble Bundle on Android

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:57:37 +0000

The latest Humble Bundle is out and features Android as well as Windows/Linux and Mac versions of the following games: World of Goo, EDGE, Osmos and Anomaly Warzone Earth.

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Please hack me I need it!

Donncha O Caoimh — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:33:34 +0000

Just one of the many kids on ps3 who message me asking for Modern Warfare 2 hacks.

10th prestige hack anyone? There’s a ready market of players who want to cheat their way to the top!

BTW – the new WordPress app for Android kicks ass!

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Ghosts ‘n Goblins is much easier..

Donncha O Caoimh — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:26:47 +0000

Games are a hell of a lot easier when they’re trained! Ghosts ‘n Goblins was one of the first games I dived into to see how it worked back in the day. Earlier I played a remix of it’s soundtrack and fired up the game afterwards. I remembered it was hard but compared to games today it’s a demon!

Luckily it was trained and my son and I had an enjoyable half hour shooting the baddies and jumping from platform to platform. I wish the compatible joysticks from back then had more than one button, left/right and up to diagonal jump is a PITA!

In case you’re wondering, a trained game is where the game has been hacked and various cheats added. Usually a fancy intro with swirling graphics and music is added at the start and the group that has hacked the game give you the option of adding infinite lives, time, invulnerability or whatever suits the games. Practically every C64 game you’ll find online has these features now.

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Can’t login to Games for Windows Live?

Donncha O Caoimh — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:33:33 +0000

I changed my Xbox Live password recently and found I couldn’t login to GFWL this evening. “No problem”, I thought. Just change the password to my new one.

No, I can’t change the password. I can select the password field. It’s active, I can move the cursor back and forward but I can’t type or delete the * characters.

Luckily it was a simple, if non obvious, fix to get around this. Uncheck the “Save my e-mail address and password” and “Sign me in automatically” checkboxes. Now you can select the password field and change it. Don’t forget to “remember” the password again..

Yes, Games for Windows Live is a POS.

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Skyrim’s Whiterun built in Minecraft

Donncha O Caoimh — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:14:23 +0000

Are there Skyrim fans in the house? Sure there are! You’ll recognise the town of Whiterun in the video above, all built in Minecraft. It looks pretty good too! Download link for the map in the description of the video!

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Syndicate on Thursday

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:09:36 +0000

One of my favourite Amiga games of the 90′s was Syndicate. The PC version will be available on GOG.com from next Thursday. Great little shooter, go buy it! (via)

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Ancient DOS Games – Star Wars: X-Wing

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:53:32 +0000

I think this game is the reason I bought a joystick for my PC. I still have that joystick (or maybe it’s the second one I bought) up in the attic but I haven’t used it this century yet and I don’t have a PC with a joystick port/parallel port any more! Remember the joys of calibrating your device so your game was simply playable? You young ‘uns with your Xbox 360 controllers have it easy these days! I never understood why joysticks had to be so fiddly on PC when they just worked on the 8 and 16 bit machines.

This game ran in 320×200 pixels and 256 colours. I do remember when that was and impressive screen resolution. (via)

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I think I may be done with Battlefield 3

Donncha O Caoimh — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:51:19 +0000

It’s the game that many people upgraded their PCs for but Battlefield 3 isn’t the darling that Bad Company 2 was, at least for me and the guys I play with.

Expectations were high for this game. The trailers promised massively destructible environments and so much more but the final game did not live up to the hype. I guess it couldn’t really, could it? We were expecting a game that would be the second coming of Christ in gaming terms, weren’t we? If Jesus played any game, he’d choose Battlefield 3. Now I think he’d probably pick up Skyrim and go adventuring by himself wielding swords and magic fireballs to defeat his foes!

I played Bad Company 2 since early 2010. It wasn’t always a rosy relationship (remember C4 on the MCOM stations?) but it took over a year for me to become as apathetic towards it as I am about Battlefield 3 now. The latter game only came out in September! Veterans of PC gaming gush about Battlefield 2. Do you feel the same about Battlefield 3?

I’ve let my Xbox Live subscription lapse, and I’ll probably trade in the Xbox version of BF3 for store credit. I’ll still jump into a game (on PS3) if anyone wants but the heady excitement of the early days has already worn off.

There is a ray of light, for me at least. I’ve rediscovered single player gaming. Skyrim kept me distracted for a few hours over the Christmas holidays but it’s Saints Row the Third that is my favourite game of 2011. There is so much silly and creative fun and idiocy in that game that it’s a pleasure to play. It’s even better coop!

Closely following that game, I have to admit the many hours I put into Darwinia were a pleasure too. Such a simple game but the story gripped me – help a developer rid his computer generated world of viruses! Loved that.

Catch you all in Killing Floor, L4D2, or most likely anything but Battlefield 3…

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Your favourite iOS and Android Games in Real Life!

Donncha O Caoimh — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:57:20 +0000

Cut The Rope, Airport Mania, Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies all feature in a new music video by HeyGeronimoMusic. My favourite part is the dog in the Cut the Rope scenes but the Plants vs Zombies bits come close!

Great fun!

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