Videogames – Page 33 – Iain Douglas Stewart

I’m playing Pokémon on my PSP

By Iain 11 July 2010Internet, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This week I finally got around to enabling homebrew on my PSP. It was very easy, mostly thanks to my PSP being one of the old "Phat" models. I eventually found some suitable emulators and some questionable software - It was a bit tricky thanks to the gamut of sites that are mostly keywords designed to send you round and…

Number one in the world!

By Iain 10 July 2010Videogames4 Comments

I've finally achieved my dream of being number one on a leaderboard on an Xbox 360 game! Yesterday we downloaded Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations for Lips, and after our first go we saw that we could easily get to the top spot. We sang it a few more times, each time getting closer and closer until finally:…

Grifball!

By Iain 7 July 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

Bungie's Double XP Weekend playlist of choice this last weekend was Grifball. I adore Grifball. Created by Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth, thanks to the wonder of Halo 3's Forge map creation tool and the fully customisable game-types, then combined with being able to spread these around via your own personal File Share, Grifball is undoubtedly the most successful user-created…

Reading list for June

By Iain 1 July 2010Books, Reviews, VideogamesNo Comments

The Timewaster Letters The Return of The Timewaster Letters By Robin Cooper I'll include both of them in the same entry, as concept and content-wise they are exactly the same. I thought these two books were very funny. Basically, the books consist of correspondence between the (clearly mad) Robin Cooper and the various comapnies and hobby groups he sends his…

I love the Eighties

By Iain 26 June 2010Music, VideogamesNo Comments

Lips: I Love the 80's is absolutely amazing, I have to mention this. Jane has always loved 80's music and picked it up in Asda earlier in the week. An inspired decision, I must admit. I was surprised how many songs I knew - or at least thought I knew! It seems I mostly only know the catchy chorus bits,…

Defense Grid? Defense Good, more like!

By Iain 24 June 2010VideogamesNo Comments

All four Resurgence packs are out now, 80msp each, 5 new Achievements in all, 10g each for a total of 50g. Stunning new levels, great fun. Service Interruption is an interesting one - I found that a good way to stop the aliens getting near the cores was to install Meteors - they were able to hit the waves better…

I’m going to write about True Achievements again

By Iain 23 June 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

Here's that URL again. http://www.trueachievements.com/ Now, along with some other guys on RF, I had set myself a Gamerscore target (get from 38,000 to 50,000) for 2010. What I didn't realise at the time was that you could actually set yourself goals on TrueAchievements! I set myself two goals yesterday. The first is to get to 50,000 Gamerscore and the…

I’m turning into a casual gamer?

By Iain 20 June 2010Music, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

Last night I played Just Dance on a Nintendo Wii and surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. The night before I played Lips on the 360 (I knew I would enjoy that though, it's great fun). And although I was initially not too fond of the idea of Kinect, I'm coming around to it now, as we have two genuine children…

E3 vs Lost – FIGHT!

By Iain 18 June 2010Films/TV, Internet, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Yesterday I posted links to two different subjects on GRcade, just to get a little traffic boost. One link was about E3, the other about Lost. I was very surprised when I came on and saw that even though E3 is current and Lost finished ages ago, Lost came out on top with 29 hits. E3 only got 7. I…

E3 2010

By Iain 17 June 2010Reflections, Videogames4 Comments

I guess most of the announcements and big reveals have been made by now, so it's safe for me to write up my thoughts on the event. I usually don't bother with E3, but I had a bit of time on my hands this year, mostly because Jane was in Newcastle, so I sat at the PC looking at new…