K COD5 “World at War” Arrived today making a mochery of the release date this Friday. Which is often the case with stuff preordered from Play.com. However when you go into mutliplayer and it tells you theres about 200,000 other people playing two days before the release, any way. Read more…
The Escapist is a game focused tech E-zine. Erm do people say E-zine anymore? You know when you work out what your going to write then half way through you panic. Erm so The Escapist is a game focused tech magazine that I’m currently reading quite a lot. I started out just watching the Zero Punctuation Voblog column which is written/performed by a brit named Yahtzee, very awesome though his gaming is completely the to opposite to mine in that he ignores the multiplayer and concentrates on the campaign yawn fest. Where as I now own COD4 on two platforms and still havn’t bothered to complete the single player. Read more…
Played last night fantastic first impressions, graphics much improved over PES5, though you’d expect that! A huge improvement over the over 5 incarnations they have in fact finally rendered the crowd. From a playing point of view anyone who was familiar with the PES 5 controls will be able to pick a controller and have a good game, though reading through the manual it appears the added extra moves number in the hundreds. Read more…
Tags: BMW 1 Series, BMW 116, BMW 116 Sport
Now I’m an opinionated sod, that’s pretty well established, and its very easy to right off things as being crap, or ugly, or just plain shit. Which makes it all the more relevant when say that the BMW 1 Series is incredibly ugly and the engine in the 116 is absolutely gutless. You may consider these points a big deal and certainly if you are the kind of person who aspires to be one day sat in the weekend sun in your Porsche Boxter with the roof down, then indeed you wont be wanting a 1 series.
However those two points aside, I have to say that the 1 series is with out a doubt the best handling car I have driven to date and I once owned a non-chaved Saxo VTR ( this was back in 
98 when they still had some cred left (with non chavs)). Once inside the cabin of the one series you can no longer see any of the body work, unless your preferred driving position is that of a praying mantis. The interior in my 116 sport was your typical Japanese style black, nothing offensive here. Though those of you who would prefer to lower the second hand value of your new BMW will no doubt be pleased to here a number of hideous interior options are available to you. The sport come with the standard mediocre CD player but it does include aux in and a separate 12v socket for all your Ipod requirements.
Missing from the 1 Series is the ability to have the center vents pump out hot or cold air, as you desire, quite a nifty feature on the 3 series. Though present is the weird new Key system also found on the 5 Series (and possibly 3 but I haven’t looked or bothered to research). This as 
Simon quite rightly points out is just making the process of starting your car overly complicated, just because its a bit fashionable at the moment.
Back to the handling, the sport was incredibly pointable in the corners and I found my self flicking the car form lane to lane with free abandon and a huge smile on my face. I’m going to cut this short as I’m well aware this is no www.topgear.com basically the whole experience leaves me wanting to upgrade my 330ci not to an M3 but to the 130 M sport.
Tags: Grand Cherokee, Jeep, 4×4
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Tags: Red Orchestra, UT2004 Total Conversion, Steam,? Red Orchestra Review
Been playing Red Orchestra this weekend, which is a UT2004 total conversion, you can get it through steam which is cool. The is you classic FPS set in world war II like DOD where it differs slightly from DOD is you can jump in to tanks and APC and stuff, which is sort of fun.? The best bit is the fact the maps are HUGE!! and you can dissapear off in to a bush and shoot the crap out of the other side, smug in the knowledge they have no clue where you are.
Down sides are the graphics arn’t up to scratch but then it is using the Unreal Engine and thats probably due an overhaul with UT2006.? Very playable indeedy though havn’t played counter strike since it uploaded which is a good sign.? Another good or bad point (depending on your point of view) is there is no help in game to identify the enemy other than their uniform or the markings on their vehicle.?? I like this and it will force you to follow a guy round for hours, get him right in your cross hairs then realise he’s on your side Whoops!. the flip side of this is that there will be loads of TK’s (whether you think this is a bad thing is subjective). Another cool thing is way they show the sniper rifle scope link here. And more screenshots here
Conclusion:? I’d buy as its only ?17 on steam ( which I obviously already have)
After the mini goes in for its third gearbox, you can never have enough gear boxes on a 13 month old car, Snows BMW (the jury is still out on them) they have this time given me a BMW 520 SE as a courtesy car. The 520 has a couple of obviously features, one of which is the weird Ignition key thingy goes in on the left of the steering wheel. This in its self is so wrong it’s untrue, slightly made up for by the fact they now have a Start engine button ( with added stupid american feature, it wont start the engine unless the clutch is down). The other feature is the new hideous look.
The SE comes with DTC which I assume is the cheaper version of DSC which my 330 has, turning this off makes the car slightly tail happy, but only if the conditions are damp and you thrash the nuts of the tiny little engine. Also included on this monster of a car are some tiny little 15″ wheels which make the arches look quite hideous, mind you I did have to park it next to an E46 M3 today with 19’s on, so that may be subjective.
So in summary if your in the market for a large 4 door executive saloon, then 2 doors aside the M3 is the car for you.
Update 23/02 : Ooo Just discovered that when you unlock the car at night the door handles iluminate from the bottom with white LED’s thats very cool. Less cool is the 2.0 litre engine, which I swear is less smooth than the 1.3 in my MG metro many moons ago
Saturday night went to see Jamie Cullum Live at the Hammer Smith Apollo. Was absolutely excelent he did tracks from all three albums, Pointless Nostalgic, Twenty Somthing and the new Ablum Catching Tales. I would highly reccomend you go and see him, except last night was the last night of the tour, so just take my word for it 
Supporting was Nizlopi, (those guys that did the JCB song). They we’re not as I expected a bunch of Old men in beards bashing sticks togther and playing wash boards, In fact they are a Two Piece one guy with a guitar and his voice and the other with a double bass. 
They too we’re amazing, never seen a support act acctually get a proper response from the auidience, pretty impressive stuff considering they played for 45mins or so and everyone probably only knew the one song. So good I ordered thier album (with money).
After receiving my Xbox360 remote, on Monday I must admit I had very little enthusiasm fo rthe thing. I only took it out of the packageing last night (mainly due to bordem) took it downstairs and put the batteries in. Wondering if I would be able to use it on my original Xbox. Once the batteries in to my delight, the whole thing is backlit with green led’s (blue conversion someone!) which is fab, then is programed it to be able to control my Tele.
Then WHAMMY! i had a very cool remote, that not only could turn on and off my tele ( have four remotes in the lounge currently that can do that ) but also adjust the volume and change channel (dont use my tele to change channel as i have sky).
All in all if your looking for an remote on/off button and may be some way of raising and lowering the volume on your tele ( note: on your tele not your AV amp) and have very low lighting in your lounge, then this is the remote for you.
Taller in more ways is an excellent album from Moocha, Munter and Heidi. Push the button and red dress a by far the best tracks. Saw them do the red dress live on the poll winners party on Sunday, which was excelent.
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