I enjoy blogging and I always try to keep up with the latest gaming news over all platforms and the industry in general. I'll occasional post a news story on my website to keep up my blogging skills.
My website is always updating, some of these updates can be fairly small and insignificant but I find it important to keep a log on these errors and how they were fixed
Want to know what I'm currently working on? My website has most of the projects I am/have been working on including some of the more intresting projects from my work place.
22 August - Day 4Progress - After much searching I finally found the sailors and got the information I needed, which was to search for someone with glasses and a leather jacket. Yay more searching.
After visiting the jazz bar and getting owned by some sailor wannabes at a game of pool I was unsure where to find the other bar I was suggested. After a night of hunting I couldn't find it as it wasn't on the map and no one was giving me any more information, I finally found it tucked down a stair way opposite the motorbike shop. Now that I had to wait for a few until 7 pm so I needed to find something to do, after a little running around I found a slot house! I never knew that Shenmue 1 had a slot house so I had to give it go and went about losing 1500 yen and just missed out on a 4000 yen win due to me not betting enough. Finding the game much more enjoyable already so bring on the next play session.
I've just had a quick go of the new Mafia II demo which is available on Steam, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 as of 10th of August and I wanted to share some of the Eyefinity screenshots as they look fantastic. Mafia 2 works great with Eyefinity with no issues so far with field of view or menu madness. More on that soon, here are the shots and don't forget to click for full-size!:
E3 is about hit us again with the 2010 Expo bringing us all the glorious news from each gaming genre and platform. But after last year's leaks, slow news and smaller showroom floor can we expect this year to be bigger and better? Well with it being E3's second year of returning to it's former self and most publisher have a healthy game line up to show we can defiantly expect this E3 to be huge! As for me I like the simple things so this is what I'm hoping to see at E3 2010 (I'm not actually going :( Maybe next year eh?):
Just a brief update as I've been messing around with the front page template CSS which has been such a pain for such a little change! Parts of the front page weren't in-line together along with extra padding and borders which I didn't think was needed, so I went about trying to edit only certain parts of the CSS without destroy the rest of the website. After plenty of trail and error and 4 different edited CSS style sheets I managed to get the result I was looking for.
Before:
After:
I also added some extra borders to the left column to split the main content and navigation options to give a cleaner look. Finally I updated the website to the latest version of Joomla which caused a few issues but nothing that couldn't be sorted out easily enough.
Well Atari are doing a great job already with keeping the community involved with the development of Test Drive Unlimited 2, barely has a week passed since the first trailer and we already have a second! I found the editing to be a little off and repetitive in some places but it sure doesn't half show off some awesome features and content:
Plenty of new cars shown off
Awesome on board footage
Great view of the whole of the Ibiza island
Dynamic weather effects with convertibles/aero effects
Nice off-road footage
Great soundtrack (see below)
Cosmetic surgery
Great detail on the latest cars
First taste of car sounds
Finished watching it? Ah, you want to watch it 5 more times? Go ahead... Now that you have finished here is the awesome soundtrack used:
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was finally announced a few weeks back after years of rumours and uncertain future of Atari and Eden Games projects and since then we have had plenty of rumours crop up from various websites and magazines. With the first trailer just released along with some hard facts from IGN TDU fans can finally relieve that sigh they have been holding inside over the years. Finished sighing? Good, now lets list some of the new and improved features that TDU2 is bringing this holiday period (30th November).
New Ibiza Island accurately mapped
Hawaii Island returns with extra roads and updates
New cars including SUVs
Off roading tracks and physics
Updated physics engine
Day-night cycle with weather effects
Expanded avatar control allowing you to walk around in buildings
Co-op driving allowing you to have a passenger in a race/cruise
Many new multiplayer features adding a more social aspect to the game
Updated graphics but don't expect Crysis/GT5
Now that is some features! This is just to begin with so expect to see a lot more information over the coming weeks along with a Beta demo due out some time later this year.
I said 4 months until the next website update but it's been 2 so I must be getting better. Saying that not all that many changes have been made a part from a very important fix.
Removed hacked portion of the website last month
Recovered from a previous backup
Edited the Eyefinity Game Review layout to make them look a little nicer
Fixed some Influential Game typos and formatting
Added some Bugs articles as found under News>Game Bugs
Added some new Eyefinity menu items
Created some more custom CSS article effects allowing for better formatting in future articles
Removed some articles which were never going to get complete (you weren't missing much)
There hasn't been much going on at work to write about recently but there has defiently been a lot of work not allowing me to write about anything. Keep your eyes open for some more Eyefinity reviews which may be short a sweet along with some new type or articles about the G19 and 3D projects, even maybe some beta articles too.
If you are confused on exactly what ATI Eyefinity is, how to get it or just how to set your ATI card then check out some of these articles as they might be some help to you:
