Archive for April, 2008

Trackback Tuesday #4

April 29, 2008

Gamers early access to new titles seems to be making an unexpected turn. With recent announcements that Age of Conan’s open beta would be available only if you had a paid FilePlanet account, which doesn’t even guarantee a beta key which syncaine found out. Add to that that Spore will be allowing gamers to pay [...]

Spore: The shape of demos to come?

April 28, 2008

June 17th 2008.
Mark it down now in your diary, as the Spore Creature Editor demo will be upon us in full force. But at what cost?
That’s right, if you want to be able to use the editor to its full potential, then a cost is involved:
“A complete retail version of the Spore Creature Creator will [...]

New page: Freelance CV

April 28, 2008

For those of you who want to keep abreast of the my freelance writing, past & present, I have added a new page to Sweet Flag. The Freelance CV page will record a list of all the writing I’ve managed to sweet talked the editor into…er…paid to have published get published. Obviously this is [...]

Freelance Journalism update & PES 2008(Wii) review

April 26, 2008

It’s been quite a week but busy is good, especially in writing terms. Writers block? No, not I…
Writing for Ripten has been an eye opening experience. I knew the work involved in writing for a game site would be demanding, but what I hadn’t reckoned with was how involved I would get in the games. [...]

Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets review

April 25, 2008

Label: V2
Release date: 14th April 2008
Track listing :
Doesn’t Matter Much
You Bring Me Down
Try Harder
Say Something, Say Anything
I Wish I Was Someone Better
Take The Weight
A.D.H.D
This Is Not For You
It’s Getting Boring By The Sea
Forgive Nothing
Hope You’re Holding Up
The ‘Shoes beginning came about nearly four years ago, after two bands (Lady Muck and Cat On [...]

MMO trials: EVE Online day 5/21

April 23, 2008

Day 5. Lost days - why no pause button?!

With the early tutorial over, some isks in my wallet but still owning a very basic ship, EVE Online seems vast & to the new player & uncharted. There are a number of additional tutorials which you can run through including Intermediate, Advanced & Informative batches but [...]

Trackback Tuesday #3

April 23, 2008

So are we all talking GTA IV?
7 days to go before Rockstars biggest ever release hits the ground running & there’s plenty of baited breath going around. Yes, I have it pre-ordered but I’m still waiting for my PS3 to be delivered, that I thought would turn up today…maybe tomorrow. I’m also expecting installation of [...]