Sometimes you still get pleasant surprises when fishing around for a game to play like I did this week. I was firing up Steam to play Arma2 (heavily flawed genius just like Operation Flashpoint was I am sad to say) when a Steam promotion popped up offering Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2 for half-price. I ummmed and arrrred and then clicked buy.
The Mac Pro is ‘Out for Delivery’ according to the TNT tracking page so that means, with luck, it should be in my sweaty anticipatory palms by this evening. In between refreshing the tracking status every five minutes I will start off this article which will cover many things. continue reading »
Total War with extra musket!
Time to try something new, I thought. Maybe it will suck, maybe not, who knows, who cares?
A live blog review of Empire Total War starting with my pre-release expectations through to some point in the future where I get bored of the thing – genius right? We will see, but here it comes 
2nd March 2009 13:00 – Expectations
I am a big fan of the Total War series, not to the point of building my own mods and doing the virtual equivalent of painting my own soldiers, but I have thoroughly enjoyed almost every one of the series.
Starting all that time ago with Shogun Total War where my breath was taken away by SO MANY stick figure soldiers on the battlefield and being introduced to that seemingly vast campaign map. continue reading »
Low power consumption doesn't mean low performance
So Windows Home Server is a chunk of code I have been very impressed with for a long time, even in Beta I trusted it completely and it has filled several needs in our house without a single hiccup. But the time came when I needed to run it on some decent and well considered hardware. continue reading »
So I was coerced by some work mates into trying Warhammer Online this week. It was, in all honesty, a game I was planning on skipping because I have never been the warhammer type. I imagined myself not really being able to stomach thousands of brats with their painted figuirine history berating me for not knowing about waaagghh. I have also never really been a big pvp’er (Eve Online excepted) because normally PvP means gank versus victim in my experience.
So a couple of days ago I was persuaded and hopped on the WAR-wagon, creating my first character on a core server. continue reading »
Is that there is no reason for the DRM to even exist in the first place.
It’s been a very long time coming but finally I have the time (thanks to a sleeping baby!) to finalise my words on these headphones with the thought they deserve.
As I have lamented previously here on the site, the iPhone is a great piece of hardware let down (very surprisingly) so far by one thing, an almost total lack of fully compatible and functional headphones! Apart from the worthless white buds you get with the phone, there are very few headsets on the market which offer the full functionality the iphone should be blessed with.
So I dugg around and managed to find a few alternative headphones that offer superior sound quality to the standard headphones whist being fully compatible with the iPhone functions. Before I start the reviews let me just define what I mean by ‘compatible and fully functional.’ continue reading »
Adobe Lightoom is the premium Digital Darkroom for photographers. It combines a multitude of library features and combines them with some very powerful editing and processing tools in the package. Having got my first DSLR camera almost one month ago, I became quickly aware of how much I needed something to keep track of all my pictures, and something that I could use to process them, especially when shooting in RAW format. I looked at many options, Picasa2 from google, Expression Media from Microsoft, Windows Live Gallery which is part of their Live packages, CaptureNX which is Nikon’s own software, GIMP combined with ufraw, and so on.
But I found every package lacked something. Here is a very very quick overview of the four better packages I tried and my ratings on the things that were important to me.
Two things stand out to me about the pirate themed mmorpg so many have been waiting for.
1. How much potential it had
2. How bland the final gameplay is.
This is very standard fare by anyone’s standards. There are so many things that could have been done well, nay properly! I am going to keep the rant brief and thus assume that people have a general knowledge about the game and mmorpgs in general.
Here are 5 reasons the game simply sucks at this moment in time:
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