View from the Potting Shed

Lego Star Wars: the best game in the universe, ever™ (Photo courtesy of Gamespot.)
An interesting article (found via Digg.com) written by Henry Jenkins, a Professor at MIT entitled “Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked”
A large gap exists between the public’s perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is […]

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
It just goes to show that you should always keep your device drivers up to date! That was my task this lunchtime.
Having installed the drivers that came with my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum everything appeared to be working fine. Listening to music in WinAmp everything sounded lovely: responsive, […]

On the left the Prima Official Star Wars Battlefront II Game Guide, on the right Simple Solution Cat Stain and Odor Remover.
After I took five boxes of rubbish to the recycling centre at our local Tesco, I popped next door to Pets at Home and PC World for a couple of essentials. In both […]

This evening I thought I’d give Star Wars Battlefront another go online. Except this time I ran the dedicated PC server on the bedroom PC, upstairs and tried to connect to it via Gamespy. And look:

it was listed on Gamespy, for all the world to see. And connect to. If only […]

My friend James Frost is here, in Edinburgh.
I met him at Haymarket station yesterday evening. I saw him descending the steps to the car park and stepped out of my car, dressed in a pair of dark trainers, green shorts, and my navy Firefox t-shirt. Only to realise that James was also wearing dark […]

Lego® Star Wars: The Video Game
What more do I have to say? As a child, I spent more hours than I could possibly imagine playing with Lego, Star Wars figures, and my trusty old computer, then a Commodore 64. Now someone has had the pleasant idea of stitching these three items together to […]

Maybe it was a bad idea to fix my PC — everything seems to be working fine; I’ve had no problems with a fast clock or clicking during MP3 playback since I updated hardware drivers and BIOS on Thursday — I’ve discovered that not only does Star Wars Battlefront now work okay, but it is […]