The Dark Furie

Here's something they don't tell you when you're looking to buy a new hard drive for your Xbox 360. It takes bloody ages to transfer everything over. One hour and six minutes for a 20 gigabyte hard drive to be transferred to a 120 gigabyte to be exact. So I'm sitting here with the absolutely brilliant Dragon Age: Origins twiddling my thumbs for the next 43 minutes. Luckily I'm a mobile blogger so I can twiddle my thumbs on my phone's keypad and chat to you lot.

Oh, here's something else they don't tell you when buying a new hard drive for your Xbox 360. The 60 gigabyte version doesn't come with the things you need to transfer your old drive over. In fact, only the 120 gigabyte version has the software and cable you need. Of course, you can buy the cable seperately but none of the game stores stock that item so you'll have to buy it online.

This has been a public service announcement from your friends at Furie World Domination LTD. We hope you found this information useful and that you have a wonderful day.

These two classic gothic horror books can be downloaded for free (support depends on your country) to your phones and read at your leisure. If you've never read them before then they're definitely worth a read, although my tip is to start with Frankenstein. Shelley's work stands up so much better these days than Stoker's Dracula does. But wait, that's not all...

Today's Game

New York, 2011 A.D.

The city is besieged by a wave of terrorist attacks. With conventional police overwhelmed, several private forces have been created to counter the threat.

The best funded and most effective are the Freedom Fighters.

Other forces, integrated with live TV crews have become extremely popular.

So begins Zombie Infection, the first true survival horror built exclusively for mobiles.

When I first came up with the idea for my mailing list (before I started giving these things away here) I mentioned that most mobile games just plain don't work because action games don't translate well into mobile games. Zombie Infection is the exception to that rule - fast and frantic action, creepy creatures that take strategy and item conservation to beat, puzzles to solve, boss creatures to fight, side-quests to complete. This is a complete survival horror experience that you'll play over and over, if only to unlock the hidden bonus games, find that last file or play a favourite mission again.

There's not much I can say about Zombie Infection that isn't covered in Pocket Gamer's review where they gave the game 10/10 and compared it to George Romero's films. Read that and download the game or, well... or I'll eat your brains.

And one final treat for all those who've already tried out Zombie Infection and read those book - Resident Evil: Genesis. This little horror game contains puzzles and zombies galore. It's a bit more hardcore than Zombie Infection but can provide some entertainment on a cold and lonely night, as the wind howls across the moors.

Of course, the boys over at Penny Arcade have a slightly different view of this phenomena...

Typically it was all go for a Sunday. There were two marathons (one 11 mile and one 25 mile) running different routes through the town as well as a load of traffic on the way to a local rugby match. The town centre was packed with people. At one point I was crossing the town square and some day-glo pink wearing midget ran smack bang into my knee (almost making me drop my XL double bacon cheeseburger ), bounced off, said "Excuse me" in a tone that people only use when they've got witnesses and don't expect you to follow them home with a chainsaw, then kept running. No sorry or anything. People have no bloody manners these days.

While I was browsing the shops I found a copy of Fable II. As my older readers know I'm a fanatic for this game, and regularly load it up to play a new character type on it. If you're not in the know the Fable games stand out feature is that your character changes depending on your actions. Level up your strength and you'll get more muscled, eat fattening foods and you'll soon have an over hanging belly, continually be evil and you may grow horns, get beaten in combat and you'll gain a scar that stays with you throughout the game. There are plenty of examples of this throughout the core game but the downloadable content adds much more to the game. However, we're not online here (yes, I know I must be to have written this post, but mobile browsers can't download things over Xbox Live) so we couldn't get any of the DLC packs. The version of Fable II that I found was the Game Of The Year edition with all the DLC added onto the game disc so I snapped it up, and it's given the game a new lease of life for us with a few new areas, plenty of new quests, some new events and creatures, and some new abilities. Plenty to play with.