1. 2 months ago 

   E3 is coming

   I realise I have been away for far to long due to… well due to life basically. But I am back and I’m more excited than ever. In a few short weeks E3 will be under way. 

   Things we can expect to see

   Nintendo will have to be showing their next hand held device, the glasses free 3DS.

   Microsoft will of course be showing off more Natal.

   Sony will be showing more of their motion controller, Move.

   Rumour/Speculation

   Will Microsoft announce an Xbox 360 Slim?

   Could Sony possibly announce a PSP 2?

   Have Nintendo got a Wii HD in the pipeline?

   Personally I think it is likely that Microsoft will announce some sort of slim console. As for a PSP 2 and a Wii HD I think not. But you never know what the big 3 will throw at us. For me, the excitement comes from the things I don’t see coming, that blow me away. I am hoping for as little pre E3 leaks as possible. They are usually inevitable but they spoil the surprises that I love so much, so I can only hope for as little of them as possible this year.

   So, I am ready for E3. I will be enjoying it from the comfort of my desk and laptop but will enjoy it all the same. Expect to hear more from me in the coming weeks, and during E3 week itself. 

2. 4 months ago 

   Weekly Update (7th March 2010)

   This week has been a busy week, but I have managed to get some gaming done. I started playing Bayonetta. I am enjoying it although it is rather difficult. I may have to knock the difficulty setting down a notch. I have continued with MotorStorm and I finished Heavy Rain a couple of hours after the last weekly update. I will do a more in depth update on Heavy Rain this week as I am on holiday from work. Although I don’t have such a lot to say this week, I should certainly have plenty to talk about next week. I plan on spending most of this week playing games, reading graphic novels and going to the gym. Should be a good one.

3. 5 months ago 

   Weekly Update (28th February 2010)

   I am so engaged with Heavy Rain I nearly forgot about updating the blog. So I may as well begin with just that. I played more last night and then a few hours again today. I am really loving the “game” now. I put the word game in quotes, as it isn’t really a game. I will talk about it fully once I have completed it, which I expect to do this week, if not the next day or two.
   
   Another game I bought this week was MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. I have kept meaning to buy the game since it came out as I rather enjoyed the first one for the PS3 as well as the most recent addition to the franchise on the PSP. I actually rented it first from Swapgame but clicked the keep it button as it was a good price. I am really enjoying it and I am pleased to finally get some Trophies from a MotorStorm game.
   
   I bought the new DLC for Borderlands, “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. But as of yet I haven’t had chance to play it. I am looking forward to jumping back into Borderlands but Heavy Rain is a higher priority right now. I actually bought the previous DLC for borderlands and haven’t even played it, after reading several bad reviews, and I probably won’t bother now. This one however looks to be the best one yet with a level cap increase to go with the superior content. Anyway I will probably do a stand alone update on the DLC if I ever get round to playing it.
   
   I don’t usually talk about football, but I may as well mention that I went to Old Trafford earlier in the week to watch the Man United and West Ham game. I haven’t been to see them play for a few seasons so it was great to get to go again and I hope to get to see them play more often in the future.
   
   That about does it for this week so here’s to another awesome week coming up, hopefully.

4. 5 months ago 

   Heavy Rain

   Heavy Rain came out today, and the weather couldn’t be more perfect for it’s release. At least where I live anyway. I actually got my copy in the post yesterday, and got to play it for an hour or so last night, as well as a couple of hours today. I am enjoying it so far. The start is a little slow but necessary to get you into the controls and how everything works. I am at a point now where it is starting to get real interesting, so I am looking forward to continuing the story. Unfortunately I need to get to the gym now, and I have work this evening. I am also at work all day tomorrow so I will have to wait until tomorrow night before I can get back into it again. If you have a PS3 then you really need to check this game out as it is completely different from anything you will have played before. I will do another update on Heavy Rain once I finish it. But now I am going off to the gym. Good job I am driving. Its heavy rain outside.

5. 5 months ago 

   Weekly Update (21st February 2010)

   This week I really only have a couple of things to talk about. Firstly, I have read my remaining Walking Dead graphic novels. I love it more and more after each volume I read and I have now ordered the remaining volumes (7-10), so I can’t wait for them to get here so I can read them.

   As far as games are concerned, I haven’t played such a lot. With the combination of going to the gym and work, along with other commitments, I haven’t had such a lot of time to play. But one game I have picked up which is perfect for my busy schedule, is Plants vs Zombies for the iPhone. When the game came out for PC last year I couldn’t stop playing it and I sunk rather a lot of hours into it. I said at the time that it would be absolutely perfect for the iPhone and I really hoped PopCap made the conversion. Sure enough they announced it, and after a delay or 2 it finally hit the App Store. It’s the only game I have played on my iPhone since I downloaded it. I quite often find myself playing it when I am at home which is amusing, when I could be playing a console game, or for that matter just be playing it on the PC. But that shows just how good a game it is. I also couldn’t believe the price they were charging for it which was only £1.79. I expected it to be £2.99 which would have still been a complete bargain.

   One last thing, I keep looking at Broken Sword on the App Store and so far I haven’t clicked the buy button. I love the Broken Sword games and I keep thinking about buying it, but end up deciding against it with the thought I probably will never get round to playing through it on my phone. But I nearly know that I will go back and buy it at some point, it’s just a matter of time.

6. 5 months ago 

   Weekly Update (14th February 2010)

   It’s only been a 3 days since my last update so there isn’t a huge amount to say. I have finished God Of War 2 now though, so that’s all 3 of them done with. I’m glad I’ve got a little while to rest now as I don’t want to burn myself out, after playing through them all so quickly.
   
   I watched Star Trek last night which I had wanted to see since it came out. I am not a fan of Star Trek by any means. I have maybe seen a few episodes of it many years ago but I don’t really know a great deal about the Universe. Having said that I thought the movie was fantastic. I really enjoyed it and I am actually considering maybe picking up some old Star Trek TV series. I will look into what is available on DVD or Blu-Ray.
   
   The Heavy Rain Demo hit PSN on thursday which i was eager to download and play. I played through the demo and was happy to see it was 2 different scenes than what I played at the Eurogame Expo. I am super excited for this game now and actually didn’t realise it is going to be out in less than 2 weeks. Awesome.
   
   The next weekly update will actually be in a week’s time so I look forward to this week ahead.

7. 5 months ago 

   Weekly Update

   I’ve decided to start a weekly update on everything that I have been doing in the past week. Today is Thursday but I will continue to do this on Sunday’s in the future. Anyway I finally got The Zombie Survival Guide finished this week. I have been reading it for a while now and really enjoyed it. I have bought World War Z now which I will save to read a bit later as I really want to get back into my graphic novels.

   I started reading The Walking Dead a while back now, and I have bought the first 6 volumes. I had already read the first 3, and finally got back to reading them this week and I am on the 5th now. I really love The Walking Dead so I want to finish reading the ones I have before I start another book. I will then order up to volume 10 and read them so I will finally be caught up.

   I have been getting back into God of War again. I have finished the first one and I am 8 hours in to the second. I want to get it completed so I can look forward to GoW 3 in March. I have also just bought Darwinia+ on Xbox Live Arcade. I have been looking forward to this one for a while. I have found Introversion’s development on the game rather fascinating after I went to their developer conference at the Eurogamer Expo last year. Hopefully it does well for them. I am certainly enjoying it on the xbox.

   Finally I decided to join the Gym at long last earlier this week. I have kept meaning to join for a while now, and finally bothered to actually do it on Tuesday. I have been the last couple of day’s and I am definitely feeling it on my arms especially. Shows how much I was using certain muscles before. Also my arse hurts from the exercise bike.

8. 6 months ago 

   Let’s TAP

   One of my new year’s resolutions is to buy pretty much any game if it is interesting and under £5. When I saw Let’s Tap for £4.97 this immediately rang my must have bell.

   Now I would never had bought this game at full price and I don’t know how much it came out at, but even if it was as cheap as £17.99, it wouldn’t have registered as a purchase for me. At the under a fiver price point though, I was happy to give the game a chance, and I have to say it was well worth taking it.

   If you aren’t familiar with the game, the controls involve setting the Wii Remote face down on a box (2 boxes are included with the game). As the game’s title suggests you simply just tap the box. I have only played “Tap Runner” so far which is one of the five party game modes. In this mode there is a four lane track, with four characters. In 1 player mode the other 3 characters are controlled by the CPU and it is a race to the finish line. Repeatedly tapping lightly will make your character run. Tap a bit firmer and the character jumps (harder taps make it jump higher). Early stages present simple hurdles while later stages add much more difficult obstacles to contend with. As I have only played by myself, it is fun but the potential for multi player fun is much better. I look forward to trying out the other game modes and hopefully play some multi player, as this game is obviously designed for more than 1 person. Well worth the small amount I paid for it, and I look forward to more under a fiver purchases in the future.

9. Notes: 1 / 6 months ago 

   Avatar

   After waiting a few weeks I finally got to see Avatar last night. I had been trying to arrange to go see it with some friends which fell through a couple of times and I was considering just going on my own. Luckily it got arranged for last night and it was well worth the wait.

   I listen to a lot of gaming podcasts that often stray into movies, so I had already heard a great deal about the movie before hand. Almost all of what I had heard about it was great, occasionally hearing the odd criticism, but mainly all fantastic reviews. First off, the film is beautiful. The use of colour is more often seen in something from Pixar or Disney. Yes I know Disney own Pixar now. This was a breath of fresh air, and I would often be lost in awe of the beautiful scenes, and would have to snap myself back into the story of film. There was always something beautiful to look at. The 3D was also very good. It didn’t feel forced, with most other 3D films. There were no pointless objects sticking out into the audience. I did occasionally get blurriness from certain scenes, but far less than all other 3D movies I have seen. One thing I don’t like about 3D movies is focusing. When the director will focus on the foreground and the background is blurred. In 3D this doesn’t work. James Cameron did a great job of not doing this and only the occasional annoyance was had with this.

   I could go on and talk about the story and other points in the film but due to a lack of time I will just leave it at this. All I can say is you must go see this movie while it is at the Cinema and see it in 3D.

10. 6 months ago 

    New Year, New Beginning

    Since the new year officially started today, I figured it was a good time to begin plans for this next year on the blog. First of all I am not happy with the quantity of posts I have been making, so this is my number one priority. I have missed talking about certain big releases which I am not happy about at all. Of course quantity is nothing over quality, and so I will be going a lot more in depth on games, movies, graphic novels etc. Video games will still take priority, music will be talked about in the future, and when I say music, none of that bullshit pop music that plagues the radios. At least I assume it still does, as I never listen to the radio, ever. Anyway Happy New Year, and I look forward to speaking my mind much more in 2010.

Welcome to A Boy And His Blog. The reason for starting this blog is not because I think people will read it, but because I have an awful memory. Have you never had an amazing idea one day, for it to be lost in eternity the very next day? I think I probably have, although I don't remember. Here is to making sure it never happens again.

My main ramblings will be about video games, as well as other forms of entertainment, like Movies, TV and Graphic Novels, though mostly about games. Video games are what I love and are my main form of entertainment. I like Movies like anyone does. I don't watch so much TV, and Graphic Novels are new to me. I didn't mean for that to ryhme, but I'll let it go just this time.

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