Unedited, in its entirity... their words in itals. Yes, we are simply scatalogical children. Introducing ... Wii. (snigger) As in "we." (snigger) While the code-name "Revolution" expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. ...
Thursday April 27, 2006
The official Nintendo release (with canned laughter)
Unedited, in its entirity... their words in itals. Yes, we are simply scatalogical children. Introducing ... Wii. (snigger) As in "we." (snigger) While the code-name "Revolution" expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. ...
Nintendo taking the pee?
Word is the final name for the Nintendo Revolution is to be 'Wii.' The Nintendo Wee . Oh, oh, oh. Thousands of mothers telling their children to stop playing with their 'wee controllers.' Oh, priceless. Coming soon: the Sony Turd. Mr. Jones wondered whether...
Win a tank
A real life remote control one, that is. And a PC. It's all in the current issue of PCF (187, in shops now kids) but I'm informed that our website mechanism for entering is ever so slightly borked at the moment. Which means you can enter the compo by clicking here rather than following the instructions in the mag. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
Spies Like Us
So you think you can spot spyware, do you? Think you can pluck a dodgy link out from the crowd? Most of us reckon that this sort of malware happens to other people, people too stoopid to not be able to help themselves from clicking on a particularly suspicious...
Make music, not war
Regular PCF readers may remember that some time ago we covermounted a selection of surprisingly high-quality audio books on our cover disc - the complete Sherlock Holmes, no less. The prolific and ever enthusiastic Russian company that created the audio...
Seeing as you liked Armed Assault so much...
Here are some of the 'Game 2' shots we feature in the current issue of PCF (on sale NOW kids). They show off the work Bohemia is doing with their own proprietary rival to Speedtree, generating some very impressive foliage.
The lighting...
Games journalists sing
Captured during a drunken evening of 'casual gaming' round at mine, sometime PCF contributor and self-styled politico of New Games Journalism Kieron Gillen, ably accompanied by our sister mag PC Gamer's Features Editor, Tim Edwards, rocks the mic on the Playstation2's Singstar 80s. Requires sound and an iron constitution. Sadly, recordings of myself attempting an agonising falsetto on Erasure's marvellous A Little Respect do not exist.
Click below to play the embedded movie.
Addendum - Gillen strikes a pose in Guitar Hero.
Wednesday April 26, 2006
Snooker laggy nuts are me
Anyone within earshot of my tiny Bath flat will have heard many teary-eyed cries of 'gawd bless broadband' over the past week and a half. Not just because of the time (and possibly brain cell) sucking brilliance of the snooker World Championship, but...
The perils of buying bootleg Transformers
What's wrong with this picture?
The pink nozzle-arm is bad enough, but then you spot the trigger. Oh god, the trigger. "Ribbed for Unit 2480's pleasure..." It's there ostensibly because the robot turns into a space pistol, but Christ, how did someone not spot this before it started rolling out of Taiwanese factories?
Incidentally, the official (fairly hard to find) version of this Transformer, Shockwave, is a nifty all-over metallic purple and sports a tasteful plate-like trigger rather than this phallic horror. If anyone has a proper one, please send it to me and I'll love you forever.
Oh forgive me
I'm going to hate myself for saying this, but I quite like Internet Explorer 7. In much the same way one grudgingly admits it finally got Media Center right, it looks like Microsoft is on the right track with the next iteration of its browser. I didn't really...
Seperated at Birth
Help settle an argument that has been raging since I arrived at PCF towers, please. Barney Calhoun, supporting act in Half Life 2, and David Mitchell, who plays Mark Corrigan in the faith-renewing black comedy Peep Show are extremely similar, are they not? Should you have the audacity to disagree, here is the damning evidence.
David Mitchell Barney Calhoun
Scarey Shrinks!
Poor Carey fell down a rabbit hole while searching for a preview code CD under his desk, when he fell out again he'd shrunk in size by one fifth! He's now running around the office squeakily shouting 'Drink Me! Drink Me!' and laughing hysterically.
On...
Tuesday April 25, 2006
Nation shall market unto nation
Looks like the traditional 'how the BBC makes its cash' argument is about to raise its weary head once more, as around 10,000 visitors to the news section of the Corp's site will be asked whether or not the "uniquely funded" organisation should carry ads on...
Monday April 24, 2006
1841 and all that
Hurrah for the latest batch of government census data to be published online - or at least for the folks who are keeping it accessible, even if genealogy isn't your thing. A couple of years ago when the 1901 data was uploaded for all to see, it soon wasn't -...
Normal service now resumed
Apologies to people who tried to access the blog over the weekend - a technical hitch left it inaccessible for most of Saturday and Sunday. Minor teething problems as I understand, which should be ironed out now. Of course, it's inevitable it happened in the...
Friday April 21, 2006
w00t! Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter spotted!
Our cheeky chimpy Games Ed, spied this avo playing early GRAW code at... get this... 2560 x 1600, with x6 full-screen anti-aliasing and HDR. Hence the poo-grin!
Clickus biggus:
Vroom vroom!
Neeeown! As some of you may already know, I'm a bit of a car nut. So I was surprised (and very pleased) when I learnt that the BMW Sauber F1 team had got together with beloved indie race sim Live For Speed to add its F1 World Championship...
DRM world
Something is wrong. Very wrong. I'd started to come to terms with the increasing presence of digital rights management or similarly paranoid copy protection measures infecting most every digital purchase these days, but the trend towards slapping it on...
More games industry figures
I wrote the other day that PC games sales were overlooked by the industry as a whole, who tend to ignore the deluge of PC cash for the potential pots of gold at the end of the console rainbow. March's figures from Charttrack are out today and once...
Thursday April 20, 2006
X1900 XTX mcguffin...
Sapphire popped in t'other day and presented us with this ludicrous Radeon X1900XTX 3D card. It's totally liquid-cooled - as you can see, the reservoir sits in a free PCI slot. You can also make out a wee grooved cylinder at the bottom, which I started...
