I’ve been a big Half-Life fan since it came out in 1998. It’s one of the few games from that period I still remember playing and, at the time, I was very excited to use my shiny new nVidia TNT2 card to get half-decent 3D graphics. This release date announcement of the upcoming Half-Life VRContinue reading “Half-Life: Alyx”
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Senua's Saga
I’ve had Senua’s Sacrifice for almost two year and just never gotten round to playing it. Part of the reason is that it’s quite an intense game. I don’t mean that it’s physically intense, or that it’s scary, just that it puts you in the role of someone with psychosis and it’s not really suitedContinue reading “Senua's Saga”
Masochistic Ambition
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Control a Sphero RVR with bluetooth joypad
A while back I contributed to the Sphero RVR Kickstarter project. It arrived in time for Christmas allowing me to gift it to my daughter. Ostensibly this was a fun educational present for her, but it also doubled up as a present to myself. Everyone’s a winner. The RVR itself is an incredibly solid deviceContinue reading “Control a Sphero RVR with bluetooth joypad”
13 Minutes To The Moon
Following on the space theme, I’ve been enjoying the 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast from the BBC. It focuses on the last 13 minutes of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and takes you through what was going on, and how everything came about. As someone who grew up after the moon landing it’s somethingContinue reading “13 Minutes To The Moon”
