Author Archives: Nathan
Doctor Who Adventure Games: TARDIS micro-review
Micro-review really is the appropriate term here, because there really isn’t much of a game to pass comment on. From first loading the game through the end of the credits took no more than 50 minutes, a quarter of which … Continue reading
Geronimo! Dr. Who Adventures
Cards on the table; interests declared beforehand; bribes quietly taken in a back-alley: I fucking love Doctor Who. As a character and a personality, he’s a constantly evolving, infinitely faceted character both instantly lovable and eternally distant. As a series, … Continue reading
Modern Warfare 2 and Digital Distribution
In case you somehow missed it, this week saw the release of Modern Warfare 2, a game that has comprehensively smashed every existing release day sales record, and looks set to become one of the best selling titles of all … Continue reading
Konami Game Rereleases?
A week ago, Gemini-Phoenix on the games™ Forum spotted something rather interesting on eBay: a number of sellers were selling new sealed copies of the hitherto somewhat rare ZOE2 where the box art had the brand spanking new 2009 PEGI … Continue reading
Tales of Monkey Island 1: Review
After years in the desert, Lucasarts is finally returning to adventure gaming and releasing titles in the ever-popular Monkey Island franchise. In their first episodic release, they’ve collaborated again with Sam and Max developers Telltale games to produce the Tales of Monkey Island. Continue reading
What annoys me…
That game developers insist on filling my Documents folder up with hundreds of folders bearing their company name, with the sole reason of storing their save files in those respective folders. There’s a reason that there’s a “Saved Games” folder, … Continue reading
Compsoc Holiday Caption Competition
Probably not the best choice of photo possible, but here’s an interesting one that the camera threw up: Answers on a postcard… or in the comments section.
Fun with compiling
In a desperate effort to procrastinate today, I’ve been tinkering on the Linux ITS machines seeing if I can supplement their provided software. To this end I’ve attempted to build some decent multimedia apps (vlc and mplayer), update Firefox from … Continue reading
Warwick Word 2007 fix
There seems to be a problem on ITS windows machines at the moment where trying to do nearly anything in Word (even pasting content into the page, or attempting to print it), results in Word complaining that “The Macros in … Continue reading
HYS / Abolishing SATs
I know that ill-informed and stupid comments on HYS are a fact of life which are nearly as mundane to point out as the colour of the sky, but sometimes I just can’t help it. With the recent news that … Continue reading