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.

Halo 4

November is going to be awesome. Halo 4 and getting married? Sweet. Of the ten maps available at launch, 8 are known. One of which is familiar, the rest are new. Ragnarok - The new name for Valhalla. I'm very happy about this. Adrift - This was one of the first maps announced, it features a mech being built in…

eyess.net

Please note, none of the websites mentioned in this post are still active. Am I ready to launch this now? Yeah, I'm ready to launch this now. http://eyess.net Jane suggested many, many months ago that I have a dedicated website for my art, and here it is. I was originally going to post it all up on here, but I…