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1. New Guide Launched
2. I'm on Facebook
3. Glossary Launched!
4. BioShock: Chapter One - Background
5. BioShock for PC released tomorrow

New Guide Launched
Tue 18 September 2007 - 03:04:16

I have launched a new guide today: "How to maintain a healthy PC". I shall add to it over time but I have started with a few basic tips on how to make your PC easy to maintain.

Click here to view the guide.

If you like it why not leave a comment, or if you have suggestion, let me know and I will see about adding it.

I'm on Facebook
Thu 13 September 2007 - 11:51:41

Alright so i finally caved in and decided to see what all the fuss was about, I now have a profile on Facebook!!

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Glossary Launched!
Wed 12 September 2007 - 03:56:47

Today I have launched my glossary. Its full of useful terms and their meanings.

If you can see a mistake feel free to contact me, or if you would like, add any terms that you think are missing!

BioShock: Chapter One - Background
Tue 28 August 2007 - 09:20:37

Helly Everyone,

As I said I would, I spent a bit of time over the weekend playing BioShock on the PC. I decided in the end to buy the game through Steam and downloaded it on Friday night. It took a few hours but as soon as it was complete, I was able to start playing.

Perhaps a bit of background first: its 1960 and the game starts with you on an aeroplane which then crashes into the sea near to a pinnicle of rock perched atop which is a lighthouse. You enter the lighthouse and find a round "bathesphere" which takes you down through the waves to about 18 fathoms and then stops. You enter a 1940's art deco styled city called Rapture. The story goes that in the 1940's a group of skilled artists, scientists, builders, electricians etc got together under the leadership of a man named Andrew Ryan ("the best electrician of his time") and built an underwater city to escape all forms of government and religion so as not to be bound by foolish laws and the politcal correctness that limits progress.

Scientists were free to experiment without the moral and ethical  implications their work would have in "the real world".

Thus a number of genetic enhancements were produced to "improve" the population of rapture, these improvements, called plasmids, alter the DNA of the recipient and enables them to move things with their minds, freeze objects or people, set things on fire with a flick of the wrist and many more.

20 years on and something seems to have gone terribly wrong in this "eutopia". The population seems to have become crazed due to excess use of "Adam". Adam is described in the game as being the "canvas of genetic engineering" where the plasmids are the paint. Adam is in a somewhat limited supply and it is harvested from the dead by young girls called Little Sisters. These poor souls were mutated to perform a role. Because the adam is so sort after and in such short supply, the little sisters need protection and the only way they can get that is to be guarded, and guarded they are, by some of the toughest "bad guys" in the game: Big Daddies. I put bad guys in speech marks because Big Daddies won't attack you unless you attack them first and sooner or later you will come up against one and will need to bring it down, but to do so requires cunning and either a great deal of planning or a great deal of ammo.

So all in all Rapture is not a nice place to have ended up, but there is a story here that needs to be unravelled and over the next few days I shall bring you some of my experiences while playing the game.

I am playing the game on the following spec computer:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 & Zalman 9700 Heatsink (overclocked to 3.6ghz)
RAM: 2GB Corsair Dominator 8500 DDR2
Motherboard: eVGA 680i (nForce 680i chipset)
GFX: XFX 8800 GTX
Sound: Creative x-Fi Fatal1ty
PSU: Enermax Liberty 620w
HHD 1: Western Digital Raptor 74GB
HHD 2: Western Digital Caviar 320GB
HDD 3: Maxtor Diamond Max 10 250gb
DVD: LiteOn DVD RW
DVD 2: Plextor DVDr
Mouse: Razer Copperhead
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse

 

BioShock for PC released tomorrow
Thu 23 August 2007 - 09:11:47

BioShock is a First Person Shooter (FPS) available for the Xbox 360 and PC. The game is set in an underwater "utopia" called rapture created by scientists.

The game utilises the Unreal 3 Engine and looks absolutely beautiful. I've been waiting for the game for a few years now and I'm glad to say that it is released in the UK, in stores and via Steam (Valve's digital distribution system) tomorrow.

From the looks of the first reviews to trickle through various channels, the game has met every expectation and surpassed them. I shall be spending some time over the next few weeks playing the game and I shall record the experiences in my blog. I will of course include screenshots of my endeavours.

I'll keep you posted.