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Category Archives: Games
Soccer Showdown
Having a smartphone has completely changed my phone usage. In particular, my phone has now become my primary game platform (although I’m very enamoured with the work’s Barnes and Noble Nook Color I have running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)). One type … Continue reading
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Two Birds, One Stone
We’re in the process of decluttering our house a bit, and I was thinking of trying to raise a bit of cash to maybe buy some new tech (assuming I can get permission…), and so I’m thinking of flogging my … Continue reading
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Uplink on Hardy
There’s a small games studio in the UK called Introversion Software who have, over the past couple of years, quietly produced some of the most interesting games around. Moreover, their games all run not just on Windows, but Mac and … Continue reading
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The simple joys of GuildWars
Edgy will be experiencing this for the first time as currently Ruthy and I are wandering about the land with him, smiting foes. Hopefully Enzo will have bought the game by the weekend so there should be plenty of gaming … Continue reading
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Guild Wars: an expansion too far?
Recently I bought the Guild Wars expansion, Eye of the North, for both myself and Ruthy. And, as you’d expect, many hours have been blissfully wasted spent on it. But there’s a problem. Neither myself or Ruthy have actually finished … Continue reading
Star Wars Galaxies: not as good as you’d think
Or, if you’re not expecting much, it’s exactly as good as you think. (This isn’t an in depth review of the game and you’d do better looking elsewhere for that. This is just a personal grump about it.) I had … Continue reading
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2 weeks with a Nokia N800
Thought it was probably time that I laid out some of my initial thoughts of the Nokia N800 that I won at LugRadio Live. I don’t have any pictures / screenshots at the moment, but I promise I’ll get some … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Computing, Games, Internet, Linux, mrBen, Toys & Games
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ET Redux!
A while ago, I used to play Enemy Territory a lot. It’s a great game, and I miss it at times. Me and some of the guys on the #lugradio IRC even setup a server to run every Sunday and … Continue reading
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Myst: As good as I remember
I recently picked up Myst: The Collection for Ruthy and being a bit bored of Guild Wars the other night, I decided to indulge in some classic point-and-click. Sure, the graphics are dated and the gameplay is as straight-forward as … Continue reading
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Warzone 2100
Gaming under Linux has always been an interesting challenge. There are some really decent games out there (Quake4, Doom3, Unreal Tournament 2004, Enemy Territory), but many games don’t get released for Linux. Open Source Gaming is even trickier – all … Continue reading
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Sadville: Ruthy’s Verdict
“Meh” ‘Nuff said… BigAlÂ
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Quick gaming thoughts – Quake4, Doom3, GuildWars
Quake 4 rocks. It really does. Best FPS I’ve played since Half-Life (and I haven’t played HL2 yet). The graphics are wonderful, there’s an actual story, there are other marines you can interact with, the bosses are in places you … Continue reading
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Heavy Gear 2 on Ubuntu
A long time ago I bought myself a copy of the (sadly extinct) Loki Games Linux port of Heavy Gear 2, Activision’s version of Mechwarrior. It was great fun to play, except that there was a known problem with the … Continue reading
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I want to be like this…..
A great story of a Dad teaching his 6-year-old to program a game with Python. Lovely story. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 mrBen
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Bleh
Another reason to play the awesome Tremulous – their tribute to Irn-Bru, scattered around a few maps mrBen
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Tremulous – part 2
I wasn’t originally planning on writing another ‘review’ of Tremulous after my first post about it, but I’ve been playing a bit over the last couple of weeks, and wanted to put some thoughts down on paper. The Good Tremulous … Continue reading
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Tremulous
One of the guys over in #lugradio pointed me towards a new (kinda) game called Tremulous. It was originally a mod of Quake3, requiring the Quake3 game to run. But since id software open source their older game engines, and … Continue reading
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Lent 42: Gameplay is King
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been replaying the game ‘Driver’ on my laptop (AFAIK Driver won’t install/play under WINE, so I am running it on the works WinXP install, I confess). Driver bears a lot of similarities to … Continue reading
Guild Wars Free-For-All PvP weekend
Try it now! It’s one of those MMORPG thingys which usually I wouldn’t even touch with yours. But out of curiosity, and with the urging of my mate Fruity, I downloaded the client and fired it up. And I have … Continue reading
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