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Link Dump – 11th October

Alastair — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:01:39 +0000

Glympse.com – The next step for geolocation apps?

Gimme robot – Begging bot wants your change.

Project space planes – Joel Veitch and Samsung combine science with marketing.

Revenge of the titans- Upcoming indie tower defender game.

NSFW - 3 pigs!

2 year old reviews God of War 3

Alastair — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:26:45 +0000

This is excellent, more mini-g! (oh and Sony? Please port GoW3 to the PC… pretty please?) QSD86RFJDUP8

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Hexagonal interactive OLED gaming tiles likely to cost a bundle

Alastair — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:27:10 +0000

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This would sure spruce up wednesday night gaming.

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The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Alastair — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Only +5 dex on a chestpiece… yeah right, come back when you L2P luv.

Pick the Perp

Alastair — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:03:22 +0000

This fun little site offers you a selection of mugshots and a crime and it’s your job to guess which perp was the accused from the lineup. Not easy at all really, though I had a little more luck by picking people in the orange jump suits when matching up for a serious crime. Thanks BoingBoing!

Zombies ate my Blog

Alastair — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:01:56 +0000

Some of you may have noticed a distinct lack of any blogging recently aside from the seemingly compulsory pic a day updates and frankly the last 2 have been a little ropey. Well this is all because I have literally been consumed by Zombies, Plants Vs Zombies to be precise. About 10 days ago Popcap games unleashed this hugely addictive tower defender game on to the world and I have to say that I immediately became a massive fan and have spent pretty much every spare momentI can charging through it at speed.

The idea is that of course, Zombies are attacking your house and you’ve got to fend them off wave after wave. The only weapons at your disposal are the plants you’ve been expertly growing and a few upgrades you can buy from your insane and escellently voiced neighbour, if you can collect enough money to pay him that is. As you progress through the various stages and defend new areas of the homestead you will pick up more plants with new abilities and encounter increasingly more cunning zombies, my favourites so far being the Michael jackson thriller zombie and the zombie bobsled teams!

As I’ve mentioned this game has absolutely massive appeal, the artwork is engaging, the audio is really well crafted and funny and the game has been thoroughly well balanced. At no point have I either felt like there was not enough challenge in a level of as if I was going to be overwhelmed by the sheer impossibility of it all. Also this title has really impressive support, popcap having already produced their own Youtube music video for the game and a small and funny LARP series of zombie office worker scenarios which are also worth a watch.

I highly recommend you download the trial for this yourself and if the £14 price tag is too high you can always petition Popcap for parity with the American market or of course, borrow from a friend.

“get ready to soil your plants”

Excellent advert for Ruse

Alastair — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:15:35 +0000

This one is quickly going viral and I can see why. Not only is it visually compelling but it’s a fantastic shift in the portrayal of the modern gamer, away from the traditional teenage male in his bedroom to the successful sophisticated and successful tech savvy adult.

You can find more about the game here

Happy 6th Birthday (yesterday) EVE!!

Alastair — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:54:18 +0000

Gah I can’t believe it, I’m a day late on this one but Happy belated birthday wishes from Stolengolem EVE! EVE is the MMO of choice round in the Golembunker and I’m happy to say that I’m one of the people who helped them break the 300,000 active subscribers mark this week too. According to the official website it’s been a very good year indeed for CCP Games as they’ve had 22% growth in subscribers in the last 5 months thanks in my opinion to better visibility on ads, greatly improved gameplay in the recent Apocrypha expansion and not forgetting the “let’s all stay at home” factor the recession is having on social lives across the world (though this last one is just speculation on my part, can a recession have proper metrics applied to it?). I wish EVE all the best for the coming years and know they deserve it, with up to 53,850 players in the same universe playing together at once in an entirely player driven sandbox there is no game like it that I’ve played so far, only the X trilogy comes close but that’s a strictly solo affair.