Transformers – Iain Douglas Stewart

Friday update 4/7/14

By Iain 4 July 2014Creativity, Films/TV, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Not a lot going on really. Wife and baby doing well, ten weeks to go. I think Jane is looking slimmer than she did before she was pregnant to be honest - even with the baby belly! She's looking good, carrying it very well! I'm slowly editing the batch of Sonic and Dark Souls videos I recorded the other week...…

Goodbye 2013

By Iain 31 December 2013Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

So what happened in 2013 then? It was another mixed bag. The best thing ever happened: I stopped smoking. And I don't even miss it. I'm not suffering from some black depression because I'm holding myself back from smoking my precious cigarettes, I'm not deluding myself by switching to an eCigarette, I'm not counting down the hours until I can…

Costume Quest

By Iain 22 November 2013Reviews, VideogamesNo Comments

This was originally posted on the now-defunct Random Fury! videogame blog. The premise behind Costume Quest is bewitchingly simple: Kids dress up in Halloween costumes which then become hyper-realistic in combat scenarios. For example, one of the costumes is a blue robot. When roaming around the overworld, it appears to be made from a cardboard box, tinfoil and roller-skates -…

Raccoon City revisited

By Iain 2 July 2013Reviews, VideogamesNo Comments

When I bought Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, I left the receipt for it in the box. It seems I bought it a few days after it came out in March of last year. I just finished it earlier today. Bear in mind, I was not continuously playing it over this time frame - I had left it for well…

Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron

By Iain 28 June 2013Reviews, VideogamesNo Comments

In a nutshell: This was not as good as the original game, War For Cybertron. The weapons just didn't feel as weighty, and the story was quite boring to be honest. While there were a few nice touches in the single player campaign, overall it was quite dull. Multiplayer was awful compared to the original. War For Cybertron had some…

Bryan Hitch’s Ultimate Comics Studio

By Iain 10 March 2013Books, Creativity, ReviewsNo Comments

Bryan Hitch is a name I am very familiar with, but I'll admit, I had to Bing his name, just to be sure it was the same guy. Who knew he'd go from writing and pencilling my beloved Action Force and Transformers comics that were released in the UK in the '80s, to being the marquee artist on many of…

Videogame targets

By Iain 31 January 2013Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

http://www.trueachievements.com/gamergoals.aspx?gamerid=2710 I know I was debating not having a target this year, but with all these other targets I thought "Why not, eh?". Can I get to 100,000 in eleven months? It's an increase of around 14,000 - I managed that last year. If I can find enough short and easy games then it won't take long, but I'm kind…

Thor

By Iain 23 November 2012Books, Films/TV, ReviewsNo Comments

The fourth film is Thor. This was a beautiful film, both in terms of visuals and in content. Thor starts off as an arrogant and cocky young man, starts a war, and is sent to Earth, stripped of his Godly powers. He then slowly comes to terms with his newfound mortality, and his father's apparent death. His personality-changing-montage wasn't quite…

Halo 4 is here!

By Iain 5 November 2012Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

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,…

Gamerscore target reached

By Iain 21 August 2012Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

I hit my target of 80,000 Gamerscore today. I had until the end of the year, but it was playing on my mind a lot, so I just decided to get it over with before Halo 4 hits. And there are a few other games I want to play for fun in the meantime too, such as Deus Ex: Human…