Chris Till

Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal and Steam Coming to Mac...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:58:47 +0000

Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal and Steam Coming to Mac in April - Steam - Kotaku

This is great news for the future of Mac gaming. Of course it will take a long time to build up a large library of available titles but I think in the end we will get there.

The Mac platform is easier to develop for than ever before so I just hope the developers other than Valve take the time to make versions for both.

Bahrain track guide with Mark Webber.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:12:46 +0000

Bahrain track guide with Mark Webber.

Nintendo Power Reveals Scribblenauts 2, Due Out This Fall -...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:37:33 +0000

Nintendo Power Reveals Scribblenauts 2, Due Out This Fall - Scribblenauts - Kotaku

I’m excited about this.

BBC F1 Intro Theme 2009 (Official) (via ashcommando) Best intro...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:41:49 +0000

BBC F1 Intro Theme 2009 (Official) (via ashcommando)

Best intro ever.

Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly - Valve - Kotaku

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:01:08 +0000

Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly - Valve - Kotaku:

Steam on Mac would be nice to see.

We’re getting married! - Media Molecule - We make games

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:20 +0000

We’re getting married! - Media Molecule - We make games

Plane passenger eats scratch card - Yahoo! News UK

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:56:34 +0000

Plane passenger eats scratch card - Yahoo! News UK:

This guy must be really impatient if he’s willing to give up that much money because he can’t be given it on a plane, where he can’t spend it anyway..

Sony exec says PSP Go 'confused' consumers, might have been too expensive -- Engadget

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:18:58 +0000

Sony exec says PSP Go 'confused' consumers, might have been too expensive -- Engadget:

You think?

Is Valve Bringing Steam To The Mac? - Valve - Kotaku It would be...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:14:25 +0000

Is Valve Bringing Steam To The Mac? - Valve - Kotaku

It would be strange considering the huge library of Windows only games, but I suppose it’s better to have it there with a limited but quickly growing selection than not at all.

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Community Channel - Natalie Tran’:...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:17:45 +0000

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Community Channel - Natalie Tran’: http://mag.ma/christill/416199

I’ve been addicted to Community Channel for a while now. Nat’s style is so refreshingly nerdy that it makes her cool.

In Turn Two It’s Yoshi, Waluigi and Logano … -...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:29:46 +0000

In Turn Two It’s Yoshi, Waluigi and Logano … - GameStop - Kotaku

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Tiger Woods: I’m sorry I cheated -...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:14:00 +0000

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Tiger Woods: I’m sorry I cheated - Yahoo! Eurosport’: http://mag.ma/christill/409517

Very emotional and it really makes me regain some of the respect I had for him. Of course. he’s never going to fully restore his image to how it was before but I think that this can only help him.

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Wacky Laws’:...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:27:38 +0000

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Wacky Laws’: http://mag.ma/christill/408828

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Super Bowl XLIV TV Commercials - Google...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:31:00 +0000

Found on Mag.ma: ‘Super Bowl XLIV TV Commercials - Google Search’: http://mag.ma/christill/407677

This is a great ad by Google. It’s so simple and really doesn’t do much other than demonstrate the core business of Google, which is obviously search. But the way they go about evoking an emotional response and attachment to the brand is so powerful and fantastic.

I think the fact that Google rarely if ever advertise any part of their business on TV makes it that much more special.

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Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:30 +0000

Mario & Sonic Winter Games Sells Six Million - Mario &...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:47:33 +0000

Mario & Sonic Winter Games Sells Six Million - Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games - Kotaku

I played this game yesteday and even though I decided against buying it when it came out myself, I actually enjoyed it quite a lot.

The main issue with it is how noobish the controls are. Speed skating in particular comes to mind because of how you use just the remote to shake to run. I’m not sure if it’s timing based or if there is an option to play with the nunchuk but either way, I was a pretty disappointed that one of my favourite sports from the olympic winter games was so dull in the game, despite all the fun sonic and mario characters.

Funnily enough, I also played just dance and my opinion on that has changed a bit. I still feel like it’s unfair on guys like naughty dog and others who spend so much time and money on making truly amazing games to have something cheap like this do so well, but I guess that’s just the gaming industry for you.

Another point is that despite how much I want to dislike it, seeing my cousin really enjoy herself playing it just brings home the reality that for a lot of people, this will be fun and make them happy so what’s wrong with that?

Well nothing to an extent, but my real complaint with this and many other casual games is that they get away with not putting the effort in to make it as good as it can be, because the people who buy it probably won’t notice.

The detection of your moves is a little more timing based than I expected, which I think is good because it stopped me from winning by just shaking the remote around aimlessly. Having said that, if they had included motionplus it could have really stepped the game up to a level where I could really get behind it and support it as a good casual game that deserves its success.

As it is though, it’s a simple, stylish, fun if not a bit lazy casual game. It has its good points and ubisoft have been lucky with a pretty good marketing campaign and a good, catchy title and box art.

Going back to Mario and Sonic, the winter version has now sold 6 million which probably makes it Sega’s biggest earner of the year and possibly since the last Mario and Sonic Summer Games title.

Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect, according to report -- Engadget

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:10:10 +0000

Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect, according to report -- Engadget:

Interesting. This may be what caused my MacBook (which is an original 2006 white 1.83ghz model) hard drive to fail. Of course, it could have failed for another reason but it seems a bit of a coincidence that they’re admitting a problem with the same model I have.

Of course, if they’re replacing the drives now for free, I wonder whether or not I’m entitled to a refund of some kind. I do still have the old drive so I could check what model number it is to see if it matches.

Then again, I did already have a spare 60gb drive from the PS3 so I just got that installed, but had I not had, I would have ended up spending a fair amount on a new one, and if this is the case, not through any fault of mine.

Nintendo, You Missed This Marketing Opportunity - Animal...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:44:23 +0000

Nintendo, You Missed This Marketing Opportunity - Animal Crossing - Kotaku

autosport.com - IndyCar News: DeltaWing unveils IndyCar...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:43:29 +0000

autosport.com - IndyCar News: DeltaWing unveils IndyCar concept

Is this a joke? It looks ridiculous to me. I thought the current cars looked big and ugly compared to formula 1, so why not focus on making cars that look more like that and less like this.

Developer: Not Many People Hook Their PSP Up To The PSN - PS3 - Kotaku

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:01:10 +0000

Developer: Not Many People Hook Their PSP Up To The PSN - PS3 - Kotaku:

This doesn’t surprise me a great deal, although it does make me wonder what the exact percentage is of owners that do connect online and also what the idea was of the PSP go when so few people actually connect their systems.

Surely there can’t be people out there who have never connected their PSPgo to the internet, what are they doing with it?

If you connect to a PC and transfer games and other data using usb, you’re technically not connecting the PSP to the internet, so I suppose you could use it without connecting, but it’s not the most seamless process when compared to something like iTunes.