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Spore Creature Created - Zath!
September 8, 2008
Has your Spore creature been created yet? Millions of people have created their creatures since the Spore Creature Creator download was made available back in June.
These creatures have then been included into the Spore full game as other creature races that you may encounter during the course of the game - Will Wright and the rest of the development team have been quite clever here really! It means they’ve potentially reduced their development time in creating creatures or working on a random creature generator, by getting us (the gamers, their customers) to populate their game for them!
Continue reading »Star Wars: Clone Wars Cartoon
September 3, 2008
The Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon series is going to be starting on the Cartoon Network on Friday October 3rd 2008………in the US!
So us Brits might have to wait a little bit longer, but the way that TV shows are being aired over here soon after it’s been aired over in the US, it shouldn’t be too long before it starts over here - here’s hopefully it gets picked up by a channel with a high definition version to really appreciate the computer graphic visuals!
UPDATE: Sky have announced that they will start showing the Star Wars: Clone Wars series at 7pm 25th October 2008 on Sky Movies HD.
The Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon series will follow the events that have already occurred in the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie which was released in cinemas during the summer.
Continue reading »BSG: Who is the 5th Cylon?
September 2, 2008
For all you Battlestar Galactica (BSG) fans out there, I’m writing this as I need some kind of Battlestar fix at the moment, so I’ve decided to write this blog post and get some ideas thrown around about who could be the 5th Cylon of the Final 5 Cylons!!
Battlestar Galactica is truly great science fiction show which gives commentary on and addresses a lot of social issues in a manner which may not be able to be approached in a more mainstream present-day setting. The enemy being the Cylons and the resulting situations are quite often a metaphor for modern-day issues, be it terrorism, war crimes, religion and belief systems. If you’ve not already, you should go and take a look at the Battlestar Galactica season 4 trailer.
WARNING - POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT BELOW!
Continue reading »‘Hellboy 2: The Golden Army’ Review
August 28, 2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (12A)
Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, John Hurt
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Running Time: 120 minutes
Guillermo Del Toro films are always a joy to watch. He tries to use as little CGI as possible and creates some visually stunning characters. Hellboy 2 is, in my opinion, one of his best to date.
The story sees Hellboy (Perlman) sick of being in hiding and wants the world to see who he and his team are, and what they do. His relationship has ‘blossomed’ with Liz (Blair) but they’re going through the ‘bumpy’ part of the relationship which has some nice touches throughout the film.
Continue reading »‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Review
August 24, 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (U)
Cast: Matt Lanter, Ian Abercrombie, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Dave Filoni
Running Time: 98 minutes
I always thought that The Clone Wars was going to be a bit too much for Star Wars. After the atrocities that were I, II and III, I thought Star Wars films would be no more and this was going to follow suit.
I was pleasantly surprised by The Clone Wars.
Continue reading »Cooking Guide (DS)
August 20, 2008
A cooking guide on the Nintendo DS? Why? Can’t you decide what to eat?
In recent years, Nintendo have been real innovators in terms of gaming technology, they’ve obviously had great success with the Wii, but before that came a quieter gaming tech revolution in the form of their latest handheld, the DS.
I’m constantly being surprised by the gaming styles and uses that this flexible gaming platform is being put to use, be it conducting surgery with Trauma Center or in this case utilising the Nintendo DS as an interactive recipe book - Cooking Guide DS!
Continue reading »Motorstorm (PS3 Platinum)
August 18, 2008
Start your engines to one of the dark horses of the Playstation 3’s release titles.
I could not believe how good and addictive this Motorstorm is. I got this with a package as I didn’t think there were any other games better looking and thought it would be ok for a couple of hours or so.
A year down the line and I still love this game. Motorstorm is off road racing at its best and now it’s back as one of the PS3 Platinum games.
I’m not really one for racing games as I find them very repetitive and get boring very quickly, but this is just pure chaos on dirt tracks and lots of exploding cars and bodies flying everywhere and I love it.
Continue reading »Spore Creature Creator Download
August 16, 2008
The Spore Creature Creator download is the pre-cursor to a new game that’s on the horizon from Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, this game is called ‘Spore’ - you’ll come to know that name well!
The main Spore game is due for release on PC on 5th September 2008. The aim of the game is to create your creature and evolve it into whatever you want it to be. Starting out as just single-cell organisms, the choices you make for the development of your species will have distinct effects as your creature evolves over time. Ultimately you can build an empire and decide to take over the galaxy, or be a peace keeping, fun loving creature.
Continue reading »Dell Studio Hybrid
August 14, 2008
The Dell Studio Hybrid is the latest new Dell product range being released - I got to take a sneak-peek at it at the recent Dell Studio Laptop launch at Silverstone, so here’s what I thought to it…
Do you still have one of those large, noisy, beige boxes of a computer sat on your desk? Do you like the idea of minimalist computing like you often see with Apple Macs? The Studio Hybrid is a new breed of computer from Dell.
The Dell Hybrid is a highly compact desktop computer which Dell has really tried to make as green as possible – in the environmental sense at least, the actual case features an interchangeable ‘shell’ casing that comes in a variety of colours see-through colours as well as a bamboo casing which gives it a real distinctive look - it certainly fits well in with their design-conscious Dell Studio Laptop range.
Continue reading »Prison Break Season 4 Trailer
August 14, 2008
The Prison Break season 4 trailer and promo videos have now been released ahead of the show re-starting again after what was a shortened season 3 last year due to the writer’s strike.
The last few episodes of season 3 really did feel rather rushed in terms of all the events that were happening and it really makes you think as to how much story was cut from the guys trying to escape Sona prison given it spanned 13 episodes instead of the expected 22 episode run that we were expecting from Prison Break.
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