2011 Top Five
With the end of the year quickly approaching for me and even passed for some people, I need to decide on my top five games of the year. For the first time I decided to outline some very specific rules. It must be a game I’ve reviewed. If I haven’t reviewed it on this site, it doesn’t qualify. Regardless of the game’s release date, if I reviewed it this year, it can go in the top five. Any type of gaming platform can be included, whether it be console, PC or smartphone. That’s it really. They are very simple...
read moreDriver: San Francisco
The Driver series as a whole is one that I have always enjoyed whenever I get my hands on it however it is not a game I have ever purchased. The only times I would tend to get my hands on it is when I was over a friends house or something similar, they would have a copy and I would give it a go and I always took great satisfaction in the sandbox style of gameplay and the fact that every car, particularly the one played by the main character, always managed to turn the corner with fantastic movie style drifting. So when I first heard of...
read moreA tweet by tweet of Wii Bowling Ashes
Yesterday was obviously Xmas and in what is seemingly becoming the tradition, my brother and myself headed off to The Ship in Wandsworth to partake in Xmas dinner for those who were unable to be with their families and/or had to work and also to take part in the second annual Wii Bowling Ashes. The Wii Bowling Ashes were originally thought when the Wii was being played a year ago and we, by which I mean Phil, Jonny, my brother and myself, worked out we could do an England vs Australia Ashes test series on the Wii. It was a great idea and there...
read moreNeed for Speed: The Run
As I spoke in my Need For Speed:Hot Pursuit review, the series had been dying for quite sometime however late last year, it was saved from death by the release of Hot Pursuit, a game which defied all trends and proved to more enjoyable than several whimsical monkeys. However with the release of The Run, I think the series may have very well be done for as this latest one has proved the age old saying that what goes up must goes up must come down and in this case, not only has it gone down, it’s crashed and exploded. Let’s talk...
read moreStream Rotator
Despite my goal in recent years to always be a Flash Developer, recent discoveries after properly working in the Web Development field, have shown me the importance of being able to code well in other languages, particularly JavaScript and PHP. Thankfully my job which had an original job description of “Flash Developer” could better now be described as a “jack of all trades”. I have spend a lot of my time enhancing my skills in PHP, particularly in regards to the WordPress CMS, but I have also been given the opportunity...
read moreFlash Gallery
This is a gallery plugin that I have been working on for quite some time and have used before on this site but I was never happy enough with the result to put it onto my portfolio. However I feel that I have now reached that day and you can see an example of it below. The design is quite simple but the animation involved with this Gallery theme (1 of 3) is really sleek and I have never had anyone complain about it when I used it on their...
read morePage Restrictor Plugin
As part of my work, I have to build many sites that require a sealed off section. A members area if you will. This was not a particularly challenging task, more annoying than anything. Now however I have developed a way that all the menu and content changes can be made through this one plugin and each time a menu or page needs to be restricted, I can use one line of code rather than typing up all the new code myself. Now ordinarily I would just put this in the functions.php file, but because I work on so many sites, I wanted to have one...
read moreSaints Row: The Third
There are few that can deny that GTA is truly a great game series. Despite all the controversy that comes with the name, the series itself is a beacon in excellent game design and giving pure enjoyment to masses. So it was hardly surprising that others wanted in on the cash that could be made. So along came Saint’s Row at a time between GTA games and while the basic game structure is a blatant rip off of GTA, the philosophy was slightly different. It recognised that if you were going to dump players in a massive sandbox city, they were...
read moreSkyrim
When I first heard about this game coming out, I immediately got very happy and very excited about its arrival. It was inevitable really. My love of Bethesda’s RPGs is well known and well documented with my previous reviews of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas praising each of the games. So needless to say my expectations were quite high for this game, considering it’s lineage and did it meet those expectations? Absolutely. Some may consider this review to be somewhat in haste considering the vast amount of content that...
read moreBatman: Arkham City
I put a post on Facebook recently about how I thought Batman: Arkham City was only potentially going to be good. My friend was quick to pull me up on this, questioning my use of the word potentially. I then went on to explain that I was 99% sure that the game was going to be good and the final 1% was in the hands of what I was calling the “George Clooney” variable. Unfortunately “George Clooney” has had a much greater influence on the game than I would have liked but despite all my upcoming criticisms, what you should...
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