Halo 4 is here!

Well, for most people. I ordered the Limited Edition from Amazon hoping to get it today, a day early, rather than tomorrow lunchtime, when the postman will most probably drop it through the letterbox. It's been so long since I've been this pumped for a game, it really has. Still, I'm playing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron to pass the time,…
Upgrade succesful

Upgrade succesful

Upgrading to Windows 8 was relatively painless, I have to say. It helped that I was going from Windows 7 - if it had been from anything lower then there would have been issues. But hey, it was plain sailing. My initial impressions were - What the actual fuck is going on here? My fears died down once I'd found…

Windows 8

So, I'm about to upgrade my OS to Windows 8 Pro. I'm never usually this eager to take up new technology, I mean, I never started using Firefox until Chrome was generally perceived as "the best". Funny, just writing out the tag for Chrome made me realise I've never mentioned Chromehounds on here before - it is one of my…

Nice couple of days

Seeing as Jane and I were going out for a meal with her work-mates in Southampton last night, I thought I'd go over earlier in the day and see my family. Met David and Otis at the Mayflower, then went on to the hospital and had lunch with Mum, gave her some belated birthday presents and just generally had a…

Smash Maniac

I finally won the Smash Maniac Achievement in Angry Birds, to complete the game. All I had to do was smash a total of 250,000 blocks. "Shouldn't take too long", I foolishly thought to myself. Looking at the timestamps on the other Achievements is enlightening... The previous one I won was for getting three stars in Episode 3, and that…

The Darkness

I'm giving this another go. I played it for an afternoon, like, four years ago. There are reasons for this: I'd like to think I've become a more tolerant man in the past four years. Sometimes I don't like the start of games that turn out to be great - I put Bioshock off for years and that was awesome…

NiGHTS

Re: http://iaindstewart.net/blog/2012/10/04/reminiscence/ So, I downloaded NiGHTS and had a little go (trial version only), and I'm kinda wishing I hadn't. It's never as good the second time around, is it? While the new visuals are very pretty, I was reminded that it wasn't all beautiful soaring with clean paraloops, I clattered into numerous hills and the calibration of stick movement…

What your soul sings

I've been totally addicted to this track recently. I need to be more true to me. I need to say what's on my mind, not what I think other people want to hear. I need to be more confident, take control. And this song inspires me, makes me believe I can do these things.
Reminiscence

Reminiscence

I’ve had a funny old day today.

I’ve spent it mostly on here doing ArtRage paintings, on YouTube looking at old videogames, and in my head, thinking about stuff. I learned that NiGHTS into Dreams is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade on Friday, and that got me thinking about the old Sega Saturn – and what an amazing console it was. I’ve owned two in my time, one was packed off to make way for an N64 (such a bad move looking back now), and the second one was sold because I felt I never played it enough to warrant keeping it. Oh, and because we were moving into The Big House and we’d have nowhere near enough room to even think about having all my consoles set up. Jane bought me the second one for Valentines Day one year, she is so awesome. It’s weird thinking back about all those old consoles, I’d love to still own them, but they, along with all their games, take up so much space. I know I could download emulators and ROMs and play all these old games again, but there’s something special, some intangible feeling, about playing a physical copy on an actual console, something that digital copies can’t emulate.

I’ll leave talking about NiGHTS until I’ve played it again, but here are some of my favourite games for the Sega Saturn.