Video Games

Had a play at the weekend, a colleagues girlfriend is quite senior at ubisoft and regularly taunts him with new wares.
Got to agree about the colour to black and wide mode - pain in the arse, I hope there's an option at some stage to trigger it off.
Otherwise thoroughly enjoyed it.

Calling all geeks calling all geeks.

Currently playing the APB beta and have an invite if online cops n robbers sounds good.

Pm me

would love to, but have doubts that my laptop could handle it :(

I run it on my laptop but needs a decent spec.

4gb ram and prob a 512mb graphics.

This is why the m11x is a badass.

I'm a Mac guy and have used dual booting to play some PC games on windows. It works well but is a bit of a hassle. When Steam does Mac will those games support mods? If so I'd be very interested, but otherwise will stick to the Xbox.

i think everything on steams being moved to mac so it should support everything. not sure though!

skydancer, thanks for the splinter cell semi review, hopefully they'll have ported it onto the ps3 by time I return in january...

Steam is the only reason I run bootcamp on my mac so if its a fully charged version that would be marvelous.

Pardon my ignorance, but if you buy from Steam then the game is yours and you're free to mod the hell out of it? If so, then I'm quite happy.

Yeah I'm seriously thinking of dual booting my mac just to play games, not sure when Steam for mac is out though?

not sure either. i dual booted with windows 7 i only use it for games. as soon as steams out im formatting my windows partition back to mac. bootcamps pretty simple to use.

I heart dual booting, it's also an interesting way to find out what the performance is like on the exact same machine, not surprisingly windows is much more responsive than Operation System 10.

Last game I played was World of goo.
just sayin'

(you should play it too.. its pretty good..)

yea goo is brilliant... best download game for ages (after darwinia). still attemting to build the biggest tower of goo in the word but it keeps collapsing:-{

Downloading the halo reach beta while i go for a leisurely ride around north.

if anyone needs an xbox 360 20gb hard drive let me know, it's quite old. as in very old. but functional. it will be very cheap.

God console FPS is so much fail.

Aiming with a joystick, painful to watch. Even worse to actually play.

Got Super Street Fighter 4 today, bloody amazing.

God console FPS is so much fail.

Aiming with a joystick, painful to watch. Even worse to actually play.

You'd be surprised.

You'd be surprised.

Well you couldn't compete with someone using keys and a mouse, but yeah, MW2 is good and there are others, too.

Good fun.

I dunno man, the human brain is very good at teaching the thumbs how to work with speed and precision, I'd bet there are MW2 players out there using a pad that are as quick as a mouse user.

Even if there weren't, first person shooters on a console do not automatically = fail.

Aiming is very different for consoles & PC shooters. You'll see console gamers strafe to aim more often than actually moving crosshair with the joystick, where as PC gamers are more prone to using the mouse heavily.

I think I've bored myself

Aiming is very different for consoles & PC shooters. You'll see console gamers strafe to aim more often than actually moving crosshair with the joystick, where as PC gamers are more prone to using the mouse heavily.

That sounds right.

Using a console it is more accurate to predict where people are going and put the crosshair in front of them, then shoot when they cross it. With a mouse you can just aim directly at them. The problem with using a controller is the speed is limited and uniform.

Red Dead Redemption pre order £29.75.

Thought some people might be interested in this cheapo price for it.
tescoentertainment.com/store/search.tla/groupsearch?keyword=Red%20Dead%20Redemption
Then this code gets you 15% off:
FTSL15-1

enjoy!