Gaming « James Tombs

Feb201019

Bobby Kotick – “I took a look at World of Warcraft and I thought, ‘Who would want to buy a subscription to that?’”

This is from Bobby Kotick speach as DICE this year (CEO of Activision Blizzard)

Kotick was also offered the chance to buy Blizzard in the 1990s for $7 million, and then in the early 2000s for $700 million.

[12:10] “I took a look at World of Warcraft and I thought, ‘Who would want to buy a subscription to that?’”

[12:10] “So, of course we ended up merging with them in 2008 when they were worth $7 billion.”

You can buy World of Warcraft for just £4.99 from Amazon.

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Jan201028

[Review] Microsoft Sidewinder X8 Mouse

Just received my Microsoft Sidewinder X8 mouse as a replacement to my aging Logitech G7. Both mice are wireless gaming mice relying on batteries for power, but both go different ways to making sure you can always use your mouse.

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Feb200909

Counter Strike: Source weapon skins

Here are some Counter Strike: Source skins I made a couple of years ago.

Skins were exported from the game then modified using Photoshop and saved back in to VTF for Counter Strike: Source.

Blue Scout

A blue coloured Scout. Download

Blue Scout Skin

Daisy Scout

A pink Scout with daisy’s on the sides. Download

Daisy Scout CSS Skin

Hi-res Desert Eagle

A hi-res Desert Eagle skin, giving off better details on the original Valve skin. Download

Hi-res Desert Eagle skin for CSS

Hi-res M4A1 Carbine

A hi-res M4A1 Carbine skin, giving off better details on the original Valve skin. Download

M4A1 Carbine Skin for CSS

Silver P90

A hi-res silver P90 skin. Download

Silver P90 for CSS

Sep200817

Good ‘ol Worms

With all the new 3D games coming out that aren’t filling that spot of boredom I decided to get out the dusty copy or Worms Armageddon. Surprisingly supporting a resolution up to 1920 x 1200 with no problems too.

Why do all the old games seem to be more fun years and years on when the graphics have been improved so much?

Will I be wanting to play Crysis again as a classic game in 10 years time because it was a classic game of the time (well Crysis may not be the best example, but you get the idea).

I have also found myself playing SWOS (Sensible World of Soccer) 96-97. Not the absolute rubbish remake that came out a couple of years ago. The original was so good because it was simple and fun not because it was 3D.

My favourite Final Fantasy of all time was Final Fantasy VI which was 2D sprites.

So is the fact that games are becoming 3D that makes most games dull and boring with no fun factor (well a little fun maybe when you are killing aliens while trying to run down an icy hill in a suit with lots of fancy features) or is the fact that developers are trying to make the games look more realistic without thinking too much about the actual gameplay?

Who knows, but what we do know, is the banana bomb can be extremely deadly…

May200826

New version of the Playstation Emulation software ePSXe has been released

After nearly 5 years of no updates, the ePSXe team have released v1.7.0 of their very popular Playstation emulator for Windows. The Linux version is still at 1.6.0.

You can download the new updated version from the ePSXe website and clicking Downloads on the left.

It has been long time since the previous ePSXe status update. During this time the ePSXe development has been on hold and our lives have changed a lot, probably just like yours. In summer 2007 we decided to continue working in ePSXe encouraged by the users support even after 4 years without updates. ePSXe is currently in final testing and we hope to release a new version very soon. We wanted to thank you for your support and show you some screenshots from games that should work better in the next release.

May200825