
So there’s pretty much lots of noise about the DS’s successor, going under the alias of 3DS. Although the DS by the calendar is due a refresh I can’t help but feel there’s life in the old bean yet.
Three other people up here, two fellas and a lass, a gun in my hand (I find myself questioning my motives at this point), medikits and ammo in-front of me. A helicopter tells me to GTFO.
Let’s jump straight in with some bright old news: a little late to notice it but looks like something that seemed like an obvious idea ever since the Wii came out is actually happening.
Awesome is, I think, the right word for this piece of tech. It’s a fully adjustable rotatable remote-controllable mobile on-wheels webcam! It can be told to roam your house, take snaps, email them do you, then go recharge itself. Enter Rovio! Of course being WiFi enabled you can log-on and control it from that interwebs thing [...]
There are some DS games out there that are obviously made for a very young age group; the ‘Imagine’ series comes instantly to mind. From a marketing point of view, they’re safe games aimed at parents to buy for their impressionable ickle ones. These are the types of games that the more ‘mature’ players wouldn’t [...]
Posted on 11 November 2009
Wonderful, terrifying, oddity in this news piece. OK, so Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) makes use of the microphone to let you ‘play’ the title instrument to trigger in-game events. Pretty much like the Ocarina in Link’s first N64 outing. Worryingly, though, Sickr alikens this to playing the ‘flute’ in the Ocarina of [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 20 August 2009
So here I was, minding my own business, when thought I’d have a poke around with a Twitter search or two. First off I figured I’d search for Chrome so see if anything interesting had been spotted about Google’s shiny browser. Turns out very shiny things had happened, very shiny indeed. Namely the feature [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 August 2009
The Tomtom app for the iPhone appears to have appeared in Americaland for $99.99. Tomtom app for the iPhone (or any GPS enabled phone for that matter) seems like an obvious win in terms of usefulness and carting around less clutter but the price point seems… well a little out of sync with my [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 May 2009
All in all a fun but crowded Expo. Pictures from my non-phone camera to follow, once I upload them to Ven. - Tiggs Continue Reading
Posted on 23 May 2009
Movie Bumblebee, originally uploaded by iCookies Snaps. Right in most crowded area… Continue Reading