A killing spree? Me? No way!

Continuing on from my raving about The Arena yesterday, I had a superb game yesterday afternoon in The Arena - One guy on our team dropped out early, but I was picking off bitches left, right and centre, camping the Hammer room with the Hammer and I got a fucking 10 kill spree. I'm pretty shit to be honest, I…
The Reach multiplayer beta is quite good fun

The Reach multiplayer beta is quite good fun

Here's my one screenshot I've taken so far. I took advantage of the way Spartans hold their hands out when running against walls. Nice touch, that. At first I was a bit let down, or confused, maybe. All these new things to use such as Armour Abilities and the new weapons, but after a few games I found some sweet…

Books I read in April

Here we go then. Back to one post per month as I didn't really get through much last month. I've read one book, albeit an omnibus, and it didn't grip me as much as the Harry Potter stuff. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it, but if I didn't pick the thing up and read a bit of it…
Stag Do Done

Stag Do Done

I know I usually do this post on a Sunday, but I wasn't feeling up to typing stuff out last night, so do forgive me. So then. David's Stag Night - an abridged version of Saturday night's journey. David, Alex (Katie's brother) and I started off at home, drinking Long Island Iced Tea and Corona. Mum made us a hearty…
Looking forward to new Halo and new Street Fighter

Looking forward to new Halo and new Street Fighter

These two games are sure to be amazing, and we get a taste of both of them in the next couple of weeks.

April 30th – Super Street Fighter IV is released.
May 3rd – The Halo: Reach Public Multiplayer Beta begins.

Although Super Street Fighter IV is pretty much just an expansion of the vanilla Street Fighter IV, the stuff it does add is looking really good. My favourite character ever, for one thing (Adon). I love what they’ve done with his theme. It was fuck-yeah-awesome already, now it’s just out of this world.

Old version:

Fuck-yeah-awesome new version:

As well as Adon, there’s new online modes, you can save replays at will (in vanilla SFIV you could only save your own replays if you were in the top 5,000 players, something I would never be capable of), and the old-school car-bashing, barrel-smashing bonus rounds are back too.

And new Halo, well, what can I say? The Reach Multiplayer Beta hits soon, and I’m really looking forward to it. If they can bring back some of that Halo 2 magic, I’ll be a happy chappy. I love how your Spartan is totally customisable, and will be unified across all game modes, I’ve been wanting that for years. And Jet-packs! I’ve been on about them since I saw an Elite fly past in Halo: Combat Evolved and I wanted to try one out for myself.

New forum style – re-done!

So yeah, it's been changed twice in less than a week now. The prosilverSE style wasn't suitable, so we went with something a bit more like the old style in terms of layout. Overall, it's much better, and apart from the code behind the banner being much stranger than I'm used to (and thus proving to be a bitch to…

Cowboy boots

This week I have been mostly writing about Halo 2 and doing up the forum. It's been a mixed bag in terms of feedback on it - some like the bold new colours, some prefer the muted tones of yesterday. You can't please all of the people all of the time though. It'll work out in the end, whether it…

New forum style – done!

Please note, none of the websites mentioned in this post are still active. It didn't take too long from me deciding enough was enough and it had to be changed to it being pretty much finished. As much as I love Mike Lothar's phpBB2 styles, they just weren't cutting it in phpBB3. Optimization was an issue, and we were missing…
Goodbye Halo 2

Goodbye Halo 2

Last night was the last time Halo 2 will ever be playable over Xbox Live. Personally, I didn't attend (I got rid of Halo 2 ages ago - I never envisioned a time when we'd play it again), but I have spent the time being devoted to Halo 2 in other ways. I've been listening to the soundtrack (thanks again…