After holding Farm on the Laguna Alta map for the majority of a conquest round, the opposition sent 6 players and 1 tank and captured the base. Thanks to a lucky respawn on a still standing squad member, I managed to get two RPG shots off on the tank…
…both missed by a mile, BUT, managed to take out the remaining two walls of the farm building causing it to collapse, killing the 6 opposition players in one glorious demolition kill!
Incredible game. More to follow soon.
Although I’m a big fan of the Last.fm service on Xbox Live, I cant help but think MS missed the target slightly with Last.fm/Facebook/Twitter integration.
Had they gone the extra mile and allowed some form of access to the services from other areas of the console, they would have been on a winner. As it is, you cannot listen to Last.fm while playing any games, only within the Last.fm area of the dash. The same goes for Twitter. Something as simple as allowing people to tweet from the guide button mid-game is sorely lacking from the service. Even some kind of pop-up notification system showing new tweets, similar to how the system deals with displaying friend logins, would have been something.
As things stand, the extra services are good, but a little extra effort and they could have been great.
What with Christmas, work, and various other things occupying my time I’ve not been posting much lately so time for some updates!
Whilst looking for some info and images of the old C64 game, Monty on the Run for a Game Maker project, I came across this great video…
Saw Stewart Lee’s new show, ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask’, in Harrogate last night. Very good as always. Maybe not as much content as the last live show he did (41st Best Standup) but just as funny imo.The act starts with an encounter in a coffee shop and ends with 100% disappointment at Pear Cider.. Pears not Pear Mr Magners 
Complaints? The guy behind me fake laughing FAR too loud in my ear but hey.. I’m not going to be a dick about it.. oh and the twat who thought it a great idea to yell out things during Lee’s act. We paid to hear Stewart Lee, not you. We noticed you came alone, and left alone.. I wonder why?
If you haven’t seen him perform, go to his site, find out where he is playing near you and buy tickets. Great comedian, deserves a lot more attention than he gets.
http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/
Cant help but be a little surprised by this. According to google analytics I get quite a bit of traffic looking for information on the inverted takedown move Batman can perform in Batman: Arkham Asylum
I’m assuming people want to know how to do it etc.. firstly, it’s an upgrade you can unlock with points from XP/level ups so get that sorted. To pull off the move, move Batman up to a gargoyle and wait for a henchman to walk underneath. Aim the camera down and at the target, then press Y (yellow) on the Xbox pad, and I would assume TRIANGLE on the PS3 pad (Not played the PS3 version so cant confirm this. Given the pad/button layouts on other games I see no reason why it wouldn’t be mapped to triangle though).
Have fun stringing the bad guys up, and don’t forget.. if you do an inverted takedown, swing away to another gargoyle and batarang the rope when his henchmen mates are standing under him for an achievement on the Xbox 360. (Again, cant say if there is one for this action on the PS3 but I would imagine its the same. Give it a try and find out)
I really hate it when this happens! I only bought the book last week and already it’s marked…
It usually takes a lot of falling asleep whilst reading before stuff like this happens.
Lesson learnt: Dont carry so much shit in work bag in future!
Zune, PSP, three notebooks, work folders, metal ruler…and a soft book. Not the best of combo’s.
*sigh*
(Book is, The Forever War
by Joe Halderman, in case you were wondering)
Recently had two people register on my blog.. which may seem innocent at first but for the fact I disable the ‘Register’ button on my blog. This means whoever did it has registered through a backdoor for some reason.
A quick google of the first of the two emails that registered here brings me to a couple of pages;
http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk/2009/09/02/spam-hack-attack/
http://www.packcamera.com/archives/409
http://mice.org/blog/an-open-note-to-wordpress-spammers-hackers/
..both detailing a similar problem and the first linked page even has the same email address listed as one that has registered here.
Googling the second email brings up descriptions of Wordpress sites being hacked by someone using that email address.
Both accounts are now deleted and banned and I would advise anyone else running Wordpress software to check things are as they should be. From what I have read he/she/they are attempting to hit blogs that use the default Admin login information so if you haven’t already, get your details changed!
For the benefit of others, the first person to register used the following details;
Username: MikeWink
E-mail: bugbeemershonyhe@gmail.com
I deleted the second without noting the info down I’m afraid so I cant pass that on. If you have a MikeWink with that email registered to your site and you don’t know who it is, delete the account immediately.
