Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
My application to be a City of Heroes advocate for Crossover Games has been accepted. This gives me access to various extra resources in an effort to get the game running perfectly under CxG. I downloaded the latest nightly build and had a quick session in City of ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on Crossover Games City of Heroes advocate
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
With City of Heroes working on my Mac thanks to Crossover Games I've been running around Paragon City as Sue Purr, tiger woman extraordinaire. But with random crashes of the game occurring frequently, causing me to have to relaunch the game maybe a dozen times per gaming session, I ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on Advocating City of Heroes
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Look out, criminal masterminds, Paragon City has a new protector! With the previously mentioned information that City of Heroes had a good chance of running on my Mac I bought the game to try out. It would let me explore and progress in a new world, as well ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on I'm Sue Purr, thanks for asking
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Having played some Mario Kart Wii recently I was mulling over other racing games I've played. I remember Diddy Kong Racing from the N64 fondly. I don't recall whether the game was released before Mario Kart 64 or not, but I had both of those two games and ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on Diddy Kong Racing retrospective
Monday, April 21st, 2008
It looks like City of Heroes/City of Villains has a good chance of running on my Mac under Crossover Games.
It may well be worth giving it a try myself soon, particularly as solo World of Warcraft is boring me silly.
Posted in Gaming | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
One of the Gemote brought Ghost Squad for the Wii along this weekend, and we all had a good four-player romp through the multi-player sections available. As an aside, one of the benefits of the previous generation of consoles that stored game data on memory cards instead of internal ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on Ghost Squad on the Wii
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I couldn't drag myself back in to Azeroth last night. A problem with playing on a US server from the UK is that weekday evenings coincide with when US friends are still at work. Without any friends to team up with I didn't have the will to run ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on More Mario Kart Wii
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I have found that starting to accelerate about half-way through the '2' count gives your kart or bike a boost at the start of Mario Kart Wii races.
Edit: the maximum boost may be achieved by starting to accelerate just after the '2' count zooms in from the front of the ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on Mario Kart Wii racing start
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I completed the first two cups of the 100 cc Grand Prix in Mario Kart Wii last night, although the second cup was only bronze. This unlocked the third cup for competition but I wasn't able to win that cup on my only attempt. I need more practice, that's ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on 100 cc Mario Kart Wii
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I popped in to London on Saturday to pick up a ticket for Blitzen Trapper, as well as a bunch of tickets for this year's Sci Fi London film festival, which thankfully looks far better than last year's disappointing schedule. I was able to get all the tickets that ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on Mario Kart Wii
