Review: Neverwinter Nights

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Intro

Neverwinter Nights is my favourite RPG game of all time, bar none.  Perhaps this makes me a little biased, but what the hell – I’ll go ahead and review it.  Let’s be clear here; when I say Neverwinter Nights or NWN I’m talking about the first game, not the far more recent (and completely different) second version.

Description

It’s been around since 2002 [Read More]

Starcraft 2: Coming Soon

Starcraft 2: Beautiful Spaceship, Beautiful Game

This morning I received an email from Blizzard stating that I was one of the lucky people accepted into their Beta Testing program.  Am I excited?  You bet!  Starcraft (original) was one of the older (oldest?) PC Real Time Strategy games, though I do have a confession to make here:  I’ve never played the first one.  I’ve seen it played, and I really [Read More]

Friday: Now with added Game and Awesome

Luigi and Mario standing side by side
Influence of Games

Yesterday we had a visitor to our college course; someone working for Realtime Worlds (Gaming Company based in Dundee).  It’s not the first time I’ve met anyone from there, in general they’re a lovely bunch of people.  Anyway, we were talking about beta testing and becoming part of a Quality Assurance Team.  Playing and breaking games before the public gets [Read More]

Playing with Colour

Colour Wheel

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Today I’ve been playing about a bit with different colour tools and some colour theory (related to my college project) and I found these three gems.  Each is worth a look for totally different reasons, and they’re fun to use too. I don’t want to beat about the bush and have a really long, really serious post (or review) today so this [Read More]

Youtube vs Vimeo; What do you use?

I can virtually guarantee you’ve heard of at least one of these video services. They’re both fairly well known (Youtube more so than Vimeo) and useful websites. We use them to watch videos, follow people, learn new things, be inspired, or just have a laugh.. In short, they’ve grown to be pretty important to our culture.

So for today, after my recent foray into the land of video, I’ll be looking at the pros and cons of each [Read More]