I was watching Mrs. Skuds playing one of those Facebook games the other day. It may be called ‘Tribez’. It looked like a generic Swords & Sorcery meets Sim City sort of game. It made me think that the way technology is going we can’t be too far away from being able to play Sim […]
Entries Tagged as 'Games'
Today’s bright idea #9
May 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on Today’s bright idea #9 · Life, Technology
Tags: Bright Ideas·Games·Town Planning
For The Win
May 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on For The Win · Life, Technology
Another book I recently finished is For The Win by Cory Doctorow.  At nearly 500 pages it is a substantial read, but I got through it really quickly, which is usually a sign that I am enjoying it. Given my circumstances it is hardly surprising that I enjoyed a story of oppressed workers organising themselves […]
Unsolicited testimonial
February 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Technology
I have been trying to sort out space issues on somebody’s laptop this week. They didn’t have enough room to install World of Warcraft and all its various add-ons. Never played the game myself, but the rest of the family (the Sussex-based ones anyway) are obsessed. From what I can see it is the crack […]
Guess who
February 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on Guess who · Technology
I am currently just a little obsessed with Akinator. I know how it is done and all that, but I’m still amazed how it still managed to get people like Harriet Harman, Carlos Santana, Daara O’Briain, Trevor Brooking, Geddy Lee, Tom Baker, Alan Sugar, Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Saville, even Andrew Collins in twenty questions. Caught […]
Blame Zeus!
December 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Blame Zeus! · Life
I expect to be posting here rather less often for the forseeable future, thanks to a bargain purchase of Master of Olympus and Master of Atlantis for about six quid altogether. According to the package the games contain over 200 hours of gameplay which works out at about 3p for an hour’s entertainment.
Why I won’t be playing Modern Warfare 2
November 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Technology
The number one reason why I won’t be playing the new Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 2 is that I haven’t played Modern Warfare 1, or any of the other Call of Duty games – I leave that sort of thing to the Mrs.  The main reason why I haven’t played any of the […]
Tags: Games
Harmonic Generator
July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music, Technology
Over at Wongablog, Andrew has been trying to get to grips with the Rock Band game, with mixed results. He may find it encouraging to see what happened when Rush tried the game and failed on their own song… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Run the red light
April 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
This game must be old news, but I only stumbled across it this evening. Great fun, but quite difficult, and nearly as good as the knife-throwing game. Basically, you have to control ‘Dangerous Dave’ Cameron on his bike.
Ken Sent Me
January 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
The local branch of Game had a couple of CDs of old Sierra games in their sale. One had 5 Leisure Suit Larry games and the other had 6 Space Quest games on it, and they all work on XP. I couldn’t resist them, and have spent the last few days playing games that I […]
Museum Pieces
July 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I do like the idea of this: hot on the heels of having a museum of computing at Bletchley Park comes the idea of a museum for computer games. It might sound like a trivial thing to devote a museum to, but if we can have whole rooms dedicated to silver thimbles in the V&A […]
