Monday, 07 July 2008. Gaming
More than a decade after Lara Croft made her console debut, Tomb Raider Anniversary is a remake of that original game. For some reason, I’d never played a Tomb Raider game prior to getting the Wii version, so to me all of this was brand new.
According to PlayStation 3 Magazine “Players should expect a minimum of 15 hours of gameplay, significantly longer than Legend.” Well, the game has given me about five months of infrequent playing, which is either an indictment to just how bad I am at games, or it is a testament to how long and hard this game is. You be the judge, I should note that I referred to a walkthrough on several occasions, and yet it still took me half the year to complete....
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Thursday, 03 July 2008. Film
Last year, I started to keep a record on Flickr of all the films I watched. This was inspired by the insanely active movie watcher Peter Noster
I had planned to blog about this over Christmas/New Year, but due to the fact that I was working all over the festive period I forgot all about it until now.
I’ve broken the film list into three parts, complete with brief Kermodian style reviews....
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008. Film
To kick off, I’m not a huge fan of the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It’s not that I don’t like the films, I just would far rather sit down and watch The Mummy. The is probably my childhood fascination with Egypt showing through, but I obviously appreciate the legacy of Indiana on the adventure movies that have followed in the 20 years after the last instalment. That said, along with my Indy loving girlfriend we trooped off to the cinema, for about two hours of fedora and whip, tomb raiding fun.
Spoilers after the jump.
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Friday, 06 June 2008. Gaming
ScummVM have been promising to support the 'Tinsel' engine, as used by Discworld 1 and 2. Since October 2005 they have reportedly got the rights to go ahead with it and are currently awaiting receipt of the engine source code, however three years down the line and no joy... so I look elsewhere.
WilcosWorld.co.uk March 2008...
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Monday, 02 June 2008. Film
The Blender Institute has just released the follow-up to the 2006 'open source' movie Elephants Dream, entitled Big Buck Bunny.
The short 3D animated movie is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit "Big Buck", whos woodland paradise is spoiled by three forrest dwelling bullies. Big Buck becomes a kinda Rabbit Rambo and prepares for comical revenge!...
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After I mentioned yesterday that I’d turned commenting off, I was alerted by Michael C. Harris regarding his Habari Disqus plugin that puts Disqus comments on to posts that have no existing comments. So I’ve put Disqus back on for the forceable future.
Also, the ‘RSS feed bug’ apparently isn’t technically a bug, or indeed to do with RSS at all... it is an Atom feed. Either-way, personally I don’t think the feed should be updated every-time a post is edited, only the first time it is published, or if the most recent post is edited. But such is the way with projects like Habari, I will either need to learn far more about PHP and try and change it myself... or stop complaining to the already overworked guys who have produced a really marvelous blogging platform....
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