The world according to my brain...

• 11Oct 09

  Shiftin' Gears

  UPDATE: MY REVIEW IS NOW UP

  

  

  

  

  After reading a bunch of mixed opinions on Need For Speed Shift I decided to try out the new NFS for myself. After all, I'm a fan of the series and enjoy a good high-speed race. I've tended to steer clear of the recent NFS titles mainly because I believe they have strayed too far from what makes NFS great. Sure they had some interesting features, but where they always fell flat on their ass was the quality of the driving experience. The last decent NFS for me were the two Underground titles which gave a refreshing 'Street' perspective and made for some fun street racing.

  Shift seems to have shaken off those lingering cobwebs and turned back to what made the series so enjoyable - driving the most luxurious and desirable cars at breakneck speeds around the most scenic tracks in the world.

  I'll have my review up shortly

  NOTE: These aren't my screenshots. They were posted on the EA forums by a guy with a triple-monitor setup *drool*

  

  
  

  • Posted Oct 11, 2009 7:09 pm PT
  • Category: Games
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• 24Aug 09

  A Tribute to 8 Bit Video Games

  I used to think stop-animation videos of Lego people were lame. Then I came across the most amazing video ever, which just happened to be a tribute to games. Click the picture to START

  

  • Posted Aug 24, 2009 8:36 pm PT
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• 21May 09

  Only in Japan...

  Just watch it

  The awesomeness is irrepressible!

  • Posted May 21, 2009 12:25 am PT
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• 17May 09

  How to break the ice...

  Click before it hits you!!!

  

  

  • Posted May 17, 2009 2:59 am PT
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• 8May 09

  LOL wut? Is the Duke dead yet?

  Even though 3D Realms have seemingly kicked the bucket...they still hand out screenshots??

  In other news. A sweet looking Sci Fi movie called District 9 is coming soon. Instead of aliens invading and making life hard for wannabe heroes, this movie flips that idea on its head and depicts aliens as refugees living the slums of South Africa. I can't wait to see what it's like

  • Posted May 8, 2009 6:55 pm PT
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• 7Apr 09

  Funkyzeit mit Bruno

  YES!!

  This is what I've been hoping for. Sacha Cohen is bringing his gay Austrian character, Bruno, to the big screen.

  

  PS: Yes I know I've been slack with the blogginating, but I'll get around to it more often soon enough

  EDIT: Click the picture for the trailer.

  • Posted Apr 7, 2009 6:41 am PT
  • Category: Movies
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• 24Nov 08

  Heads up all you Brisbanites!!

  In case any of you haven't heard already, the GAME ON exhibition is currently showing at the State Library in South Bank, Brisbane

  

  • Posted Nov 24, 2008 11:53 pm PT
  • Category: Games
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• 5Nov 08

  The ghost of Tom Joad has spoken..

  OBAMA IN DA HOUSE!!

  

  woot! \o/

  • Posted Nov 5, 2008 1:16 am PT
  • Category: Opinion
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• 6Oct 08

  Spore review is up

  

  Give the thumbs up if you like it

  • Posted Oct 6, 2008 6:34 am PT
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• 4Oct 08

  If only we had ads like this

  Dutch Ad

  ...in other news. DSi. SRSLY??

  I can't wait to play Sin & Punishment 2. I thoroughly enjoyed the first, ignoring the shoddy acting of course. Treasure FTW.

  • Posted Oct 4, 2008 6:48 am PT
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• 19Sep 08

  I feel like a little kid again XD

  Ever come across something so memorable that your childhood memories hits you with the force of a bulldozer on meth?

  I've been having that feeling lately.

  Back in the 90's there was a little known anime just after Aerobics Oz Style - yeah you know it, that first slot of the legendary Cheez TV - called Teknoman. This show blew my mind every time I watched it. In my opinion it was one of the best animes I have ever watched surpassing the likes of Macross and Neon Genesis.

  I'll let the badass intro speak for itself.

  Anyway, I recently discovered that this series has been released on DVD. So I went straight to Ebay - like that creepy friend you don't want to hang around for some unexplained reason - and bought the first copy I could find .

  Happy days.

  

  • Posted Sep 19, 2008 2:30 am PT
  • Category: TV
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• 4Sep 08

  Spore impressions

  I've finally managed to drag myself away from this game to post an impression. So yeah, it's ADDICTIVE. And that's not exaggerating. I'm talking first-few-months-of-WoW addictive here.

  The greatest thing about Spore for me is the absolutely limitless amount of things you can create. Some people would say that this is what makes Spore uninteresting, and they are right, but it really depends on what you like to play. Once you're through the Cell, Creature, Tribal and Civ stages of development, things get pretty simplistic. The fundamentals of the space game is to gather Spice (the main trading resource), conquer other civilisations either by brute force or economic power, build colonies on new worlds and maintain relations with other species.

  The rest is basically a challengs to obtain all of the medals (used to unlock better powers) and achievements in the game. There are some very interesting ones I've noticed including finding the true centre of the milky way, and literally discovering Earth hidden somewhere in the galaxy.

  
  Achievements

  So basically this game is great for just sitting around creating things, finding things and blowing planets up
  If you don't like the ambiguity of that $tyle of gameplay then this game isn't for you.

  • Posted Sep 4, 2008 12:24 pm PT
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• 3Sep 08

  I feel a little bit special today

  SPORE!!!

  My first ventures into the game

  

  I hope to see your creatures populating my universe very shortly.

  • Posted Sep 3, 2008 3:20 am PT
  • Category: Games
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• 26Aug 08

  Koo Koo Ka Choo!

  Some sweet action movies coming up..

  Broom broom cars...

  ....and shiney metal things

  Hopefully some tranformers too

  
  *waves hands in the air* "woooop woop woop woop!"

  • Posted Aug 26, 2008 9:44 pm PT
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• 18Aug 08

  That Dancing Guy

  

  Last night on TV I watched Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. He was interviewing Matt Harding, the guy off youtube who videoed himself dancing all over the world.

  During the interview he mentioned he worked for Pandemic Studios in Brisbane, and he started the dance when he wanted his workmates to hurry up and take a lunch break If you read the transcript, he actually developed the idea of Destroy All Humans.

  Small world

  Speaking of Pandemic, I often eat at the same cafe in New Farm as some of the staff on their lunch break. I can tell because they are always talking about games

  • Posted Aug 18, 2008 6:22 pm PT
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• 7Aug 08

  They spend BAJILLIONS on servers....

  ...and put a crappy CRT monitor for the access terminal XD

  Which gets me to the point. The end of the world is nigh when this puppy gets up and running.
  Mini black holes FTW

  • Posted Aug 7, 2008 8:37 am PT
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• 4Aug 08

  Selbieville

  C wut i did thar?

  Come visit my city and make it grow!!

  • Posted Aug 4, 2008 12:28 am PT
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• 30Jul 08

  Now this is just cruel

  

  

  

  Another Space MMO has popped up on my radar...and it looks spectacular!

  Black Prophecy is another SciFi MMO similar to Jumpgate Evolution. For some reason they seem to be lying very low about information on this game, and yet the scheduled release is Q4 2008.

  Either this game is 'just another EVE clone' or it will be the direct competition for Jumpgate Evolution. I just hope I can make up my mind by the time these games are released
  They both have good qualities about them, however, I guess things are still uncertain about Black Prophecy, given how little information is provided. BUT THE EYE CANDY!! OMFG!!

  • Posted Jul 30, 2008 8:10 am PT
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• 25Jul 08

  Self-owned

  My videos!!! Precious is lost

  Yeah I didn't realise GS would be so strict on videos from other sites

  • Posted Jul 25, 2008 2:02 am PT
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• 17Jun 08

  Darwin eat your heart out!

  I've been trying out the Spore Creature Creator today. Even with such a small number of parts to choose from, there is virtually an unlimited amount of combinations to create. My mind asplodes when I try to think what the final release of Spore will be like. The entire world will probably grind to a halt while absorbed in creating something for the Sporepedia.
  
  *EDIT* Link for those who don't have it yet
  

  Here are the creatures I've made so far:

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • Posted Jun 17, 2008 3:43 am PT
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