Looks like Birmingham city centre has been evacuated tonight in response to a bomb threat. Man this sucks. The area evacuated includes where my new flat is which I actually start paying rent on today. Good job I didn’t go and get the keys this weekend.
Monthly Archive for July, 2005Page 2 of 3
After E3 I was a little down on the future of PC Gaming, it seemed like all the hotlly anticipated titles had been released, there wasn’t much coming out and all the attention was on the new consoles. A few months later and just flicking through PC Gamer I can feel confident the PC is still the best platform for the games I want to play. Just look at this list:
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Doom 3 engine put to good use
Half Life 2: Aftermath - Gordon continues the fight
Operation Flashpoint 2 - Sequel to one of the greatest games ever
Sin Episodes - Episodic gaming the way it was meant to be
Spore - Will Wright is a genius
Supreme Commander - The spirtual successor to Total Annihilation
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Outragously good looking RPG
To say that’s an impressive line up would be an understatement. Have i missed anything out?
While I was at work and for a while when I came home, today wasn’t having a massive impact on me for some reason. After I made some calls, grabbed something to eat and switched the news on again it just hit me and I couldn’t believe it. Did today really happen?
Back home now. The security in our building became a bit more relaxed around lunchtime and allowed people to go out and get food as long as they came back quickly. Of course they were inspecting bags on the way back in because of the raised terror alert, amazing how we are all supposedly carrying bombs after working there for goodness knows how long. Due to the major delays on rail services people were allowed to finish work early so I took the opportunity come home. No buses running in Zone 1 so I just walked the 40 or 50 minutes it takes along the Southbank. Lots of people on the streets and a kind of eerie silence in air. Quite a day.
Blogging this from the office in London. We are on the South bank so we weren’t as badly affected by the blasts as those North of river. There are no buses on the street and we have been told to stay put in the office. A few people here just missed getting caught up in it by a matter of minutes around the Liverpool Street station area, scary.
It really sucks, it was going well we had Live8 on Saturday, got the Olympics yesterday, the G8 were meeting today and now those terrorist bastards decide to blow up the tube.
This week I started watching two shows I had never seen before but had always heard a lot about. Neither, as far as I am aware, aired in the UK and both were cancelled early even though they had loyal followings.
The first, Firefly, is the now famous ‘western scifi’ series from the creator of Buffy that got cancelled in it’s first season by Fox mainly due to poor scheduling and lack of promotion. Showing the pilot episode that sets up all the characters and back story half way through the season is the kind of poor scheduling I am talking about. No I am not making that up. So the DVD release has given it a new lease of life with purchasers actually being able to watch the episodes in the order that makes sense to the story, how innovative.
And it pays off. It’s a great show with some really excellent writing and characterisation that really shines through if you can get over the initial bizarreness of setting a wild west series in space. Or is it a scifi show in the wild west? Either way after a few episodes that is long forgotten and everything just seems right and makes sense.
Even more amazing than stories told on the show is that of Firefly’s revival on DVD and on the big screen. Unbeknownst to Fox, Firefly had garnered a cult following and the DVDs flew off the shelves as soon as they were released, giving Fox the slap in the face that it certainly deserved for slaughtering this potential hit series. Out of this success incredibly a movie was born which is due to be released later this year, with another two more rumoured to be on their way in the future.
So now that Firefly is officially ‘back’ there couldn’t be a better time to pick it up and enjoy the show as it was meant to be shown before the Serenity movie is released in September.
I will talk about the other TV series I discovered soon.
In lieu of any new Family Guy episodes this week take time to enjoy all the great music from the show’s four seasons. Now featuring ‘Rock Lobster’!
This whole Blair vs Chirac thing is just getting silly now. I accept our food isn’t the finest in the world but worse than Finland? Come on! If Paris gets the olympics tomorrow, which it probablly will, he’s going to be even more smug.
The new issue of PC Gamer just showed up on my door step and super secret they have been teasing all month is the new Sin game! It’s being developed by Ritual in the Source engine and will distributed in an episodic way via Steam. Wow! The major games sites will probablly pick this up in the next few hours.
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