Posts tagged “gaming”

Wii! So I had a go on Steve's Wii this afternoon at Dan's sumptuous paella-fest. I am by no...Dec 10, 2006

Tried a Wii at a friend's paella party. I've never been a console gamer, but this thing is different. Playing tennis that actually feels like tennis is basically low-fi virtual reality. Nintendo have made me interested in console gaming for the first time in decades. Non-gamers will want one.

9-11 Survivor is a game mod based on the Unreal Game engine. It recreates the twin towers on...Sep 26, 2003

A game mod that puts you inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Please say this is a joke.

Things responsible employees don't do, #1Sep 8, 2003

Connecting remotely to your work machine just to play The Sims on your lunch break is not something a responsible employee does. Very bad idea.

'Tis the season to make money. And what better way than to play my current candidate for...Nov 24, 2002

I'm loving Monopoly Tycoon, my current runner-up for best game ever. It's no simple PC port of the board game but a deep, sophisticated simulation that takes everything great about Monopoly and cranks it up. Reviews are hitting 80-90% and I agree completely. This game rocks.

Enjoy the inaccurately-named tribute to Ray Harryhausen; how often do you get to see Skeletor...Sep 18, 2002

Watch Skeletor dance to a Japanese YMCA cover, explore Middle Earth in Lego, make fruit flies gay, and trash Tokyo with a novelty USB hub. People have too much time on their hands. Or boring jobs, like me. 8 days till Warwick!

Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, needs to have a go IMMEDIATELY on Celebdaq. A...Aug 22, 2002

Celebdaq is a BBC celebrity stock market game where you trade fake money on famous people's fame. It's totally addictive. Start with £10,000, win £100 real money weekly. Play now and buy Beckham.

This guy exists for the sole purpose of making me jealous. Yes. Yes he does. Also, this is very...Aug 19, 2002

A gay RPG geek blogger who makes me jealous, plus Homestar Runner links that are very funny.

Last night in New York, spending it like I have nearly every night here: hanging out in Ed's...Jul 15, 2002

Last night in New York playing Tropico and stumbled on SaveKaryn.com, where a woman wants strangers to bail her out of $20k in self-inflicted credit card debt. The audacity is staggering, especially since she apparently put even more debt on the card to build the donation site.

More random entries from the Great Blog Backlog: What do you get when you send inner-city inmates...Jun 2, 2002

Clearing the backlog: inner-city inmates make "hick-hop," OnlineConversion.com is surprisingly useful, and I've been down a webcomics rabbit hole with mixed results. Also, there are way too many Final Fantasy characters.

Home on a Saturday night. Z is a bloody evil language; a recurring theme with languages I've had to...Feb 23, 2002

Stuck home on a Saturday struggling with Z, an evil language. Distracted myself with Technosphere (build creatures, set them loose) and The Sims, which is officially the most addictive game ever made.

Text-mode Quake 2! Okay, so I don't play Quake and I seldom use text mode, but it's still a cool...Dec 31, 2001

Text-mode Quake 2 exists, and even though I don't play Quake or use text mode, I appreciate the sheer audacity of it. Boredom breeds brilliance.

Cool! Play a clone of Risk online. Thanks to Nigel for sending me the link. The game looks pretty...May 24, 2001

Play Risk online at dominategame.com. Server's swamped though; anyone want to help set up mirrors?

Die, XBox, die! Microsoft's new gaming console crashes during a demo, revealing a PC-like boot...May 20, 2001

Xbox crashed during a demo, flashing a very PC-like boot screen for all to see. Funny stuff.