Nothing but gaming
In a couple of days time Sniper Elite V2 from Rebellion and 505 games will be released on PC, PS3 and Xbox360. When it comes out it will add a new dimension to sniping...
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It’s Arnold versus the Speccy. In the blue corner we have the Amstrad CPC464 released in 1984 with 64k of RAM (42k available to the user) and in the red corner, the Sinclair...
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We picked up an Xbox Kinect yesterday. It’s a Christmas present. Yes, it’s October. But we had to test it out before it goes to Santa (unless it becomes an early...
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May 6, 2011
In this blog post from Patrick Seybold of Sony it was confirmed that all North American Playstation Network users will receive complimentary enrolment in an identity theft protection programme administered by Debix, Inc. All North American users are to receive an email with an activation code that they must use by 18th June 2011. This scheme is set to be...
May 5, 2011
There’s a new cross-platform game finally making it to store shelves on May 10th and, while LEGO blocks were fun for me as a kid, I DON’T mean: As the banner at the top of this article suggests, if not blares, the game I am interested in is BRINK. Brink is a new futuristic FPS that has been in development since 2008 by the...
May 3, 2011
Just when it seemed safe to go back in tubes another trug of turd hits the fan. Today Playstation Network and qriocity were supposed to be fired back up, limping on three cylinders, but usable. D-Day came and twitter was alight with “is PSN back up yet?” messages. Most users were memed in return with this link:...
May 2, 2011
Sony executives held a press conference on Sunday to announce the phased reintroduction of the Playstation Network and Qriocity services. This was after an unauthorised intrusion on the services resulted in them being suspended since April 26th 2011 by Sony and 77 million PSN users having their details potentially stolen. The hack has raised many...
Apr 29, 2011
So, while checking my email this morning, I noticed a message from Sony stating something to the effect of, “we’re very sorry for the inconvenience and don’t forget to be diligent about identity theft -as we have not been so good about it ourselves. Please don’t sue us,”. I’d call the number they left at the...
Apr 28, 2011
This article has been written on a 64-Bit based machine, accessing the internet and capable of doing millions of calculations per seconds. It could be used to control a robot, crunch data to reveal the human genome, or shoot zombies in glorious HD 3-D. In other words it does everything that would be required of a modern computer. It wasn’t always...
Apr 28, 2011
The problem with large companies is that they put more effort in to controlling information and not enough in giving the right information to those who are affected. PSN users are getting conflicting information as to exactly what information has been compromised, and how compromised it is. Initially it was reported that names, addresses, email...
Apr 27, 2011
Nevermind the B*ll*cks, it’s The Sony! After last night’s announcement that user details had indeed been compromised during the breach that has brought down the Playstation Network on April 20 2011 for an indefinite period there have been more questions than answers. Initially it was assumed that Sony would have ensured that personal and...
