Apparently the DVD set of Doctor Who Season 3 contains a studio tour with Freema Agyeman. I pulled this short clip out where we’re introduced to Nick Briggs, the voice of Daleks. I had often wondered who voiced the Daleks and what a Martha Jones Dalek would sound like; this answered both of those questions.
Actually I picked this game up on Ken’s suggestion and am really glad I did. This game is more than good, you need to play this game.
The easiest way to describe this game to other gamers is to say it’s very reminiscent of Super Metroid. Current generation gaming (or laming if you read the last post) means this isn’t a 2D sprite based adventure though. This game uses the Unreal Engine and it looks very good for a $15 downloadable title or, for that matter, a full $60 adventure game. While the environments are all rendered in 3D, the playable character moves more or less in 2D within a room.
So what makes this game work? I would say it’s all the same things that made its predecessors so much fun. To me the exploration was a big part of it. Your character is essentially a regular guy who finds himself in an underground military complex. As he finds equipment like bombs, missiles, and other tools this allows him to explore areas previously unavailable to him. The other part I liked was the solid control scheme.
Anyways, I played the game from start to finish twice already for a total of 15 hours of gameplay and will probably play it through once more to see if I can get that minimalist achievement. Check out some gameplay videos or download the demo and give this thing a try.
Anthony Tilahun is working on launching his new project Calling All Lamers. I helped him on this way back in 2008. Slow moving things cross the finish line eventually, right?
This looks to be an online hangout for lamers to meet and socialize. They can even schedule laming events for lamer clans, ladder tournaments, etc. Powered by Joomla and JomSocial this has some potential. Check it out.
http://www.callingalllamers.com
Update: He actually launched the real site “Calling All Gamers” at http://www.callingallgamers.com
I recently needed to work with Unicode and multi-byte characters in my code. The following configuration worked great for me. Most of it appears in the VIM wiki, and then I set the guifont properties.
if has("multi_byte")
if &termencoding == ""
let &termencoding = &encoding
endif
set encoding=utf-8
setglobal fileencoding=utf-8 bomb
set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
set guifont=Lucida\ Console:h11
set guifontwide=NSimSun:h14
endif
You may want to play around with the fonts and sizes to suit your needs. Remember to escape the spaces in font names.
Ken and I have been talking a good deal about Super Street Fighter 4 these days and I admit, I’m excited. We’ve been playing the original SF4 Friday nights and Ken has been capturing them as part of a Street Fighter 4 Casual Fridays initiative. We’re not always on top of our game, well they are only casual matches.
We’ve fought each other a few hundred times I would say so there’s more going on that you can see… anyone that has fought a particular opponent many many times knows exactly what I mean. Below is a sample of a few of our fights, he’s got more on his channel as well. My gamertag is Gutzman and I’m the character on the right.
Anyways, anyone else getting excited about SSF4?
So Tony and I have gone back and forth on this many times. He simply will not back down from Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman). Today he challenged me to a duel to win her love and I intend to win.
As a token of my true love I made this picture with floating hearts. More to come.
So this is the game I’ve finished most recently. I actually enjoyed it a great deal.
It took me about an hour or two in the beginning to get into it, the colors seemed weird and some of the voice acting was um.. yeah. But the parts I really liked were the item creation and synthesis, the in-game trophies, some hilarious character interaction, and levels.
Anyways, I already wrote a little something more about this game over at LabSwitched: Small write-up at LabSwitched
So I’ve been playing a few games lately… can’t guarantee I’ll finish them, but hopefully I will. Actually the last game I finished was Star Ocean 4, but more on that later.
This game is remarkably fun. The characters and dialog are funny, it has tons of weapons (3,166,880! per Mtv Multiplayer), different player classes and online multiplayer. The different player classes, tracks, weapons and multiplayer give it excellent replay value.
I remember cutting school and going home to play the original Silent Hill for the Playstation and it really creeping me out. I missed out on a couple but decided to check this one out on recommendation. Enjoying this one so far, I’ll give a final verdict later.
Unemployment is a brutal game. You think they’d turn the difficulty down a notch for the newbies but ever since the “Recession” patch everyone has had a hard time leveling up the job ladder.
Here’s hoping the rumored “Economic Upturn” event occurs really soon. My character is running low on funds and his “College Loan” stat is extremely high.
I read that on Kotaku and it gave me a chuckle. Luckily, I just turned that unemployed thing around. I’m hoping it stays that way for quite a while.
