2147 people wasted! Not bad.
Oh and it took me 30 hours and 30 mins to complete, although most of that was me messing around during flight school 
Monthly Archive for June, 2005Page 2 of 3
Direct DownloadIn my first podcast to this blog I talk about sweating like a pig and all things GTA San Andreas!
Subscribe to the FeedOk it’s way too hot in London today and this house just refuses to cool down. I may have to invest in a $30 air conditioner.
Holy crapola! A 24 movie might be in the works! Use bugmenot to get in.
I can’t see the real time format translating well to the big screen but the characters and the plot will as it has always had a cinematic quality to it.
I am very impressed with the folks over at Multi Theft Auto, it has only been a couple of weeks, if that, since San Andreas went on shelves and they aleady have a basic multiplayer game set up. This project is progressing very quickly because of the use of their ‘Blue’ engine developed before hand that can be plugged into new GTA games with only a slight bit of modification needed.
Who needs Rockstar to develop mulitplayer when we have geniuses like these on the job, heck, they will probablly add a lot more features than Rockstar ever could. Go check out the video here.
The TWIT podcast is a nice weekly show about gadgets and technology produced by the old Screen Savers team from TechTV. For some reason after the first or second show Leo Laporte decided he wanted a cash injection and started to promote listeners to get a paid subscription or make a one off donation. Of course this is entirely optional but many people have pledged their support and paid up.
A few weeks later problems started showing up and they were extremely late (6 days) putting it together and releasing it onto the net. Now if you pledge to release you show on a certain day every week and ask people to pay, optional though it may be, you should abide by that promise and not keep coming up with excuses.
If this were a completely free arrangement then there would be no issue, they could release as few as they liked whenever they liked and no one would care. But by actively seeking donations they should be living up to their end of the bargain and not abusing the trust of the loyal TechTV audience.
Leo sparked this post by offering a full refund to anyone who wants one on the TWIT blog today. This is beside the point. They should have let the show run for several weeks to iron out bugs before even contemplating asking for money.
You can chalk up the lower than normal posts here to the latest incarnation of GTA winding up on my hard drive. A massive huge game that gives you a sense of freedom none of it’s rivals can replicate. When you leave your home city for the first time and travel down the long winding highways through the countryside you know that it’s something special. And while all this is happening you don’t see a single loading screen as Rockstar have come up with some incredible way of streaming the rolling terrain into memory without ever needing to pause. It’s amazing what they have been able to accomplish with this archaic engine.
Unfortunately it does feel a little rough around the edges as the port from the PS2 didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped. Graphical glitches are pretty prolific and it doesn’t make anywhere near enough use of the hardware that’s available to it like modern PC games should. Thankfully these technical quibbles do not overcome or engulf the experience and the pure game play and attention to detail shine through.
It tells you a lot about the quality and originality of a game when it has suffered badly from a conversion but can still be considered the best game of 2005. Back to the streets of San Fierro I go.
Well the ECW PPV on Sunday night was nothing short of amazing, it’s great to see all these guys back in the ring and both they and the fans had an awesome time.
The thing that surprised me were the shoot promos that were being cut right from the start till the very end of the show. Van Dam has had a lot of time to think about what he was going to say with the injury he sustained and most of it was centered around WWE keeping him down both in the ring and on the mic. After that flogging of the office Heyman came out a little later took it to another level.
To say he was controversial would be a massive understatement. He ripped on the WWE guys in the balcony, specifically JBL and Edge. In one of the best lines of the night and probably of they year in wrestling he says to JBL “you were only the WWE champion because Triple H didn’t want to work Tuesdays” - very cool. And to Edge, “two words…Matt! Frickin! Hardy!”, that was three words but regardless he is the only person under contract to say that on WWE TV since the Matt\Lita\Edge fiasco.
They did actually have some matches believe it or not but the Mike Awesome match was the best, of course Joey Styles went with the trend of the evening and started shooting on Awesome too.
This was the most entertaining PPV of the year so far, certainly not the best wrestling show but overall it was excellent. It will be interesting to see where they go from here in the coming days and weeks as many people in the company will have gone sour to Van Dam and Heyman if they weren’t already after their comments had been made. The crux of all this will be the buy rate. If it was a low buy rate then nobody will care, if enough people saw what happened on Sunday night and it had an mediocre rating you have got to expect repercussions on those involved, but if the buy rate is massive we could be seeing the revival of the ECW brand.
InsideMacGames on Apple’s move from PowerPC to x86, “…it’s going to narrow the gap between the release of a game on Windows and the release on Mac — maybe to zero.”
Do that and I’ll switch tomorrow. Shame that DirectX is going to get in the way.
[via]
![Futurama - Bender's Big Score (with Limited Edition Lenticular Sleeve) [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61THJCbOxwL._SL75_.jpg "Futurama - Bender's Big Score (with Limited Edition Lenticular Sleeve) [2008]")
![Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511PW90lDhL._SL75_.jpg "Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [2008]")
Recent Comments