Batman: 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...
read moreSteam: Sanctum and Portal 2
November is going to a be glorious time for me. You see, having worked for nearly 12 months straight with little to no time off, I have accumulated a large number of days off that need to be spent before the end of the year and with numerous eagerly anticipated games titles coming out over the next six weeks (Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Saint’s Row: The Third, Forza Motorsport 4 and Need for Speed: The Run) I decided that I would dedicate the month of November to gaming and took 11th November – 30th November off from work. (Note...
read moreDeus Ex: Human Revolution
This may come as a surprise to many but I never played Deus Ex. Despite many proclaiming the it to be one of the best PC games of all time, it was just never something I picked up as I was playing Diablo 2 at the time and as anyone who played that game will know, it’s a gigantic time suck. Whenever I did try to play Deus Ex several times over the past few years but I could never get past the first hour or so of gameplay thanks to the graphics that looked like a patchwork quilt over lego blocks and a guns that had the same accuracy as a...
read moreLeague of Legends
When I was younger, Warcraft 3 and to a greater extend, the Frozen Throne expansion pack, was one of the great gaming staples of my childhood but amusingly I never played through the actual game itself. Rather I preferred to go online and play the custom maps that people came up with, usually stuff like Tower Defence and Tower Wars. I loved those games but there were a couple that peaked my interest that didn’t involve building towers in more and more interesting ways. There were a couple that did involve controlling a hero, one that I...
read moreAdding to the Media Upload toolbar.
I’ve been developing a gallery plug-in over the past few months at work in order to allow people to add Gallerys and its pretty damn close to finished. Just need to iron out a few final kinks and it will be ready. However what I really want to do was add a button to the “Upload/Insert” media toolbar so that those with far less competance than myself, could add the gallery without having to remember the shortcode. So as you can see with the image above, the idea was to have it so that users could click on the little icon and...
read moreOblivion
When I first played Morrowind, like many of the great games I’ve played, I had no idea what I was going into. Morrowind was a game of wonder, something so solid and enjoyable I couldn’t stop playing it. I picked up every expansion pack for it and loved every minute. So when Oblivion came out, I was hoping that I would get the same repeat sensation as I did when playing Morrowind. The feeling came close, oh so very close, but just didn’t quite match it. There is a simple reason I choose to play video games and will probably continue to...
read moreInsert Galleria Plugin
This plugin was built after some frustration in wanting the Galleria gallery however with images being loaded in dynamically rather than hardcoded. The result is what you see below. All you need to do is put in galleria within square brackets along with a height and width and you can create a gallery on any width and height you like. You can find the link to the plug-in here. *I do not take credit for the Gallery itself. This gallery was developed by http://galleria.aino.se/ This plug-in contains the classic Galleria theme only and is...
read moreDungeon Siege 3
The Diablo series is one I wasted many hours of my youth playing for many reasons. It was a simple concept action RPG with dungeon crawl and hack ‘n’ slash elements and this worked beautifully, the levels and dungeons were absolutely stunning and the gameplay was so rock solid, you could smash a diamond with it. Whilst Diablo for me will also be the highlight of the game style, the style is not without games that deserve a mention. Games like the X-Men Legends and the Marvel:Ultimate Alliance series have pulled it off nicely as...
read moreMinecraft
Right off the bat, I’m not going to define this post as a review. There is a not enough content, I feel, to justify writing a full review so instead I’ve decided to go for a description of my first weekend playing Minecraft. I admit this seems like a cheap kind of review and it probably is but I hope that by watching my video and reading this description of my experience, you’ll be able to understand why writing a full fledged review might have been quite difficult. Even more so I hope that it will encourage you to buy the...
read moreSpeaker Scroller WordPress Plug-in
This first started out as a project at work and to be fair it was mostly completed at work but some of the things that I have included in this were not originally part of the request. Since I work for a company that does a lot of conference web sites, it is important that speakers, particularly keynote speakers, are displayed and highlighted in an interesting and eye-catching way and this is not a tricky thing to do. However since we have moved to WordPress in an attempt to maximize the amount of content that marketers can edit, we needed a...
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