Just Another Weblog

I've kept this secret for years and only me and my brother knew of it and I haven't shared it with anyone nor have I seen it on any cheat site. I think it's long overdue that I tell you.

On Age of Empires II you can have certain buildings attack adjacent enemy buildings. First you build either a Barracks, Stable or Archery Range next to an enemy building (as in touching), then you select that building you made and right-click the enemy building you're next to. You'll notice the enemy's building slowly losing life and it will continue until it's destroyed. You can't stop attacking it and can be re-produced in the Conquerors expansion pack.

And while I'm on the Conquerors there's a bug where "Hoardings" doesn't give you +1000 to your castle. Instead it gives you ~120% more hit points to your castle. How cool is that?

Hope this has been interesting!

I got enrolled last Friday and I've just finished my first week at Barnfield!

I'm currently undertaking the IT Practitioners BTEC course (until year 2 where I can choose a speciallised path) and ATM I'm finding it really helpful. For one thing I've learned what a PAN is - a Personal Area Network. I've never heard of that before and I've also learned about Cisco Packet Tracer (with a download coming to my home PC).

I'm hoping to become a games designer in the future and I've found a ton of jobs and careers which not only offer very reasonable wages but also a great experience.

I'm quite happy the teachers/lecturers/etc have got something I've been trying to find for years: personality. It's one reason I'm going to Barnfield Tech (and a reason why I'm actually happy to go and get educated).

The main reason I wanted to do gaming development was because of Slightly Mad Studios.

SMS have been a great role-model in a way to me and they have a brilliant combination of what I like (a working environment), what I love (games), and what I adore (racing!). I've set myself to aim for SMS within the next 10 years so I can finally not only adore my favourite game studio, but actually work for my favourite studio. That would be awesome.

I hope I can keep this blog up-to-date now I'm at college, but in the meantime I'm finally doing something where my knowledge from not doing my homework in high school is paying off at level 3.

I have no other choice than to stop the game reviews I've posted over the last few weeks.
Due to budget (and personal) reasons I cannot keep up with demand and will have to therefore end the reviews I loved to post.
But I will continue posting to the blog more often than before.

Continuing with the theme of weekly game reviews I've posted a 'slightly mad' review of Shift 2: Unleashed. It's available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows and for this review I've reviewed the Xbox 360 version. Enjoy!

Read more...

According to the draft posted here Mozilla plans to release a new version of firefox every 16 weeks. As this is only a draft it's not set in stone and they may decide to change it from time to time (which they will).

Personally, I would like Mozilla to release a new version of Firefox every 13 weeks because that would equate into 1 release per quarter and it would allow enough time to develop and stabilise each release. Google use every 6-7 weeks to release a new version but I think that's too short because there isn't enough going into each release. By the time Chrome has the 'necessities' it would probably be at version (1)18, but it could be worse. If Mozilla's codebase was the problem then 16-17 weeks sounds about right due to the increased complexity of it all and the possibilities of delays.