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Decembers Screen

ballison — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:23:38 +0000

Damn, Jimmy why did you have to shotgun my old monitor!
VS: Case
Icons: Tango Patcher (blue)
Wall: J3concepts

Spirited Away

ballison — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:26:47 +0000

Just watched this recently. The animation is first class, much higher than a usual Anime series. I think it won a Oscar or something.

Its got a really imaginative style, and its merged into a emotive story. It uses children but conveys a story of hope and love, which is really complex.

The real question is do you believe in the power of fate?

Gears of War

ballison — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:30:57 +0000

So, this is the game of the moment. I bought it on release, and have played nothing else since. Although my internet isn’t working correctly with xbox live, so I do have problems playing with certain friends. It’s pretty immense to say the least.

Yet another hyper-realistic title for the 360. It uses a 3rd person camera that moves, to make it seem movie-like. The occasional blood spatter can get drenched over the screen. which is allways exciting.

Single-player so far is brilliant. Its well written, and every bullet counts. you really feel as if you are immersed into their world. The enemy are a race called the Locust, who were once human. Fighting them is the Humans, COG.

The Multi-payer is engaging but lacks a lot of variety. The system for hosting games is also nothing new, and needed updating even before Gears adopted it. The system to stop cheaters is to; not allow cheaters to enter game together. Unfortunately this means no-one can enter a game with anyone they know. Not what people expect when playing a game all about teamwork.

Overall the game is breathtaking and fun to play, right now its faults are almost invisible. If other developers pick up on their mistakes it wont be hard to take its position, as the most played Xbox Live game.

Novembers Screen

ballison — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:56:13 +0000

VS: Case
Icons: Tango patcher
iTunes: meeee!!
Wall: ?

Check out the iTunes skin [here]. It’s my first one.

Everything in London

ballison — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:20:27 +0000

Uni so far has been loads of fun, so much so, I havn’t even used this blog.

I’m far to lazy to describe everything over the past few months, so here is some of the best photos so far.

If I run out of things to do later, I might try uploading all my photos. In chronological order:

yeah, some are a bit random…

summer so far, from my new camera phone.

ballison — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:33:08 +0000

trip to london, didnt take many pics

err, yeah…

Ballison — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:46:54 +0000

ok, well I’m not too sure what I’m using this for. probably fill it up with pics of buff tings.