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A few things: 1) Yes, I'm aware I haven't posted in aaaages. I admit, I was surprised by the length of time gone. On the other hand, I changed jobs close to Xmas which is never a sensible time to change anything and I had a bunch of other stuff to sort out alongside it. Then I had to deal with six alien invasions, rescue a kidnapped Eastern European Prince and...uh...look, I just forgot. Or something. 2) The new blog is over here . 3) It isn't really the "new blog", given I've been writing on it for close to seven months and LOOK I FORGOT. 4) The publishing interface is still a bit rubbish. Also thanks to Posterous dying , my worst fears have come true and nearly all old images uploaded via Posterous have vanished. I will get around to fixing it eventually, but oh man that's a lot of blog posts to dick around with. True story: uploading images to blogs is the slowest, most painful experience of blogging you will ever come across. 5) Don't go...

I did an interview with Gamespot a while back on the subject of hacking in videogames. Off the back of this, I wrote a piece on the history of hacking in videogames. If you'd like to see some of my favourites (alongside a few "What were they thinking" efforts) then here comes Christmas .

Problem : I have a safehouse and a ton of offshore money / loot stashed in said safehouse. At present I can't do much with either . How to make them more interactive? The dev team are going to bring in safehouse customisation, but I don't want to just spend thousands of dollars making it look nice. I wonder if it's possible to do the following: 1) More than one safehouse. maybe 3 or 4. I don't really care if they all look the same. 2) It makes sense that the police would be constantly looking for your safehouse / money. The less stealthy you are in accumulated missions, the more likely they are to find your safehouse. 3) Imagine being in a heist and getting message that one of your safehouses is being raided. Do you bail and go to defend it or finish the job you're on? 4) The safehouse customisation should be about shoring up the safehouse. The more cash you spend, the harder it is to breach (locked doors, metal doors the cops can't shoot open a...

1) It's good to see Poison Ivy still getting work. 2) Did they even giver her a name? I thought I heard "Viper" but I could be wrong. Hot damn, that costume is terrible . Wait, she's peeling off her skin. Oh boy, she's going to look like a lizard or a snake underne- ...nope, she looks like a bald woman. Uh, okay. 3) I was massively excited to see a SEGA sign. Shush. 4) "We're going to remind you Logan has been depowered by having him shot every ten minutes." 5) His depowering is kinda weird, isn't it? He can't regenerate but he can jump around on trains and bounce all over the screen? Worst most expensive power sapping spider robots ever. 6) Why didn't he bleed to death when his claws came out? #nerdynitpickbutwhatever 7) Rila Fukushima was the best thing in the film, and she's written out for a huge chunk of it in the middle. 8) "We're going to remind you Logan has regained his powers by having him s...

Flawless victory

[Note: I'm aware the finale has now aired, but I can't see it yet due to insufferably stupid bullshit so here's a vaguely whiny rant about the new series, most or all of which may now be totally null and void due to whatever happens in the last episode of Series 7. Meanwhile, let's also wonder exactly how many people waiting to see the finale on iTunes will either sit around until they've eaten fifty gallons of spoilers or just go see it someplace else. Protip for the BBC and iTunes: not many. Also, I won't be giving you any more money for your staggeringly late "season pass" episodes. Well done.] I think I've had this post bubbling for a while; the Rings of Akhaten and one or two episodes from Series 7 all watched in the space of a few days pushed it over the edge. I'm done with Moffat / 11 Who, I think. It's finally shuffled beyond the point where I just throw my hands up and do that Seinfeld leaving the theatre routine. In fact, I ...

I've mentioned Sleeping Dogs before , but one of the best parts of the game - the soundtrack - is also one of the most frustrating. A combination of low availability and baffling Amazon listings makes it a fair trek around the block to simply buy some of the music on offer. Worse still, many of the tracks are listed as being sung / composed by what I can only assume are fictitious, in-game entity style characters who you won't find within a million miles of HMV or wherever by virtue of the fact that they're the creation of "Some music person in a sound studio somewhere". Does anybody know who sings the parts of  Vivienne Lu , of "Yellow Fever" fame, for example? I've no idea. Nobody seems to know for sure , although if this post is accurate then it definitely isn't Lucy Liu. Similar issues abound for many of the in-game tracks, especially when dealing with some of the stations such as "Soft". Well, fret no more because I put a fair...