Emilia & Anders’ Wedding & Flickr

12:29 pm, June 13th, 2007 by Daniel
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Emilia & Anders Wedding #15

Went to my first ever Swedish wedding last… well, two and a half weeks ago now. Unsurprisingly perhaps, they’re not unlike British weddings (certainly the ones I’ve been to anyway), except of course that every is speaking Swedish and I haven’t got a clue what on Earth is going on. To make matters somewhat more complicated, I also had never met the bride or groom (talk about a freeloader eh?) :) It was a heck of a lot of fun and thankfully, the weather was also very nice, which is to say, the sun was out, even if the wind made it feel like < 10°C. Landing back in the UK on Sunday afternoon, we were welcomed back with open arms and opened heavens. Typical.

You can view the full set of badly taken photos here: Emilia & Anders Wedding

Microsoft Surface

12:14 pm, June 13th, 2007 by Daniel
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Microsoft Surface Official Site

Ok, so this is a few weeks old, but it’s still great! Rather than having “coffee table books”, the centre of conversation can be the coffee table itself!

I want one!

Couple of first impression articles:
First Look from on10.net
Brightcove - Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look
What lurks below Microsofts Surface? A brief Q&A with Microsoft

Phishing plumbs new depths…

10:02 am, June 12th, 2007 by Daniel
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Vietnam’s fiber optic connections to the rest of the world have been dropping like flies lately due to… fishermen? About 43 km of undersea fiber optic cable is now missing.

D’oh! From ars technica.

PlayStation.Blog

10:00 am, June 12th, 2007 by Daniel
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PlayStation.Blog

Sony have finally set up a blog! This is a great move, hopefully it prove just as popular and successful as Major Nelson! Added to my blogroll links…

Battle at Kruger

4:04 pm, June 7th, 2007 by Daniel
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Gonna start posting cool stuff that I’ve found on t’internet. To start you off:

A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa’s Kruger National Park while on safari.

It’s ace.

LINK

Forza Motorsport 2 Arrived!

3:02 pm, June 7th, 2007 by Daniel
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Forza 2 Limited Edition Packshot
Originally uploaded by daniel-lim

Woo! My copy of Forza Motorsport 2 arrived this morning! Only 3 hours til I can go home and play! I got the Limited Edition version which includes 3 exclusives cars for the game, a HUGE accompanying manual with lots of pretty interesting stuff (including some driving school tips for taking corners properly and the like) all encased in a rather nice box with plastic sleeve.

I started a thread over at Eurogamer.net about the damn sleeves, which look nice, but why on earth can’t they have a bit of plastic at the bottom so the case doesn’t just slide through?! It’s really annoying!

Anyway, Forza 2… Really looking forward to playing it! The demo has been played loads since it came out and I bought a Microsoft Wireless Racing Wheel in anticipation! You can really tell (even from the demo) that the game has really been designed around the wheel, everything about it feels really good, every car feels different, unlike the recent demo for Colin McRae: DiRT, which looks great, plays really nicely with the pad, but is stonkingly atrocious with the wheel. Seriously. It’s f*cking bad. In Forza, I love when you start skidding (despite my car skidding normally being the precursor to ending up in the sand traps and losing) and you can actually feel the wheels losing traction and gripping again as they slow down. It really is very immersive, even if my wheel times come nowhere near my pad times just yet (although I’m generally rubbish anyway).

I’m also very excited about the livery editor, where you can layer up hundreds of different decals to create your masterpiece. And truly, we have seen some masterpieces in recent weeks (the Japanese and Americans got it a couple of weeks before us). Forums are getting filled with the awesomeness that is being stuck on the side of cars. Some of the best I’ve seen so far: Mugen (on a Mugen) from the anime Samurai Champloo, Marcus Fenix from Gears of War, some girl from the Japanese 360 game The iDOLM@STER, Batman & Robin, my absolute favourite that I’ve seen so far, an amazing paint job with a Paper Mario theme. Stunning. There are loads of galleries springing up all over the place, so here’s a few you can check out: 1 2 3.

Naturally, there’s loads of buzz about the game over at Eurogamer, so come and join the Forza 2 User Group and join in the discussion!

Oh and before I go, I have to show you this. Apparently there’s an option in the game to enable this mode! Of course, I don’t have the 3 Xbox 360s, the 3 copies of the game and the 3 HDTVs that you’d require in order to do it…

…but still!

EDIT: The guide for getting your 3-screen Forza action can be found here.

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.2

11:52 am, June 1st, 2007 by Daniel
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I’m upgrading, so the site will be down momentarily (hopefully not too long, ’cause that means something’s gone wrong!).

EDIT: Aaaaaand, we’re back! I love Wordpress. It’s just so easy! :D
Hopefully won’t get ripped to pieces by the spambots that make their rounds every few weeks now!

EDIT #2: Been messing around for ages now, finally managed to get my site back to valid XHTML Transitional 1.0 certified! Don’t know what that is? Well, I don’t either really, but you can read more about it here.

Heavenly Sword at Sony’s Gamer Day

6:18 pm, May 23rd, 2007 by Daniel
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Loads of new stuff came out of Gamer Day last week, a summary of which you can find at GamesRadar.

Obviously, the most important thing there was Heavenly Sword! We even have a new official homepage for the game, which is particularly nice, given the lack of updates on Ninja Theory’s website (that said, heavenlysword.eu seems not to have any of the recently released stuff on it :roll: )

There’s a couple of new images and screenshots (none of which I took this time), oh and a rather tasty trailer, all of which, you can check out on Playsyde!

Today, in response to the “down-scaling” of E3 (”Electronics Entertainment Expo”) to a much smaller, trade-focused event out in LA during the summer months, giant super-developer/publisher Ubisoft has launched it’s own event called Ubidays, which has seen loads of new screens, gameplay footage and trailers hit gaming websites during most of today. LOADS of great games were shown - will talk more about those later!