Friday 28 December 2012

We all love free games...

Now, we all love games, especially if they're cheap, and even more so if they're free, am I right? So from now on I shall be finding the best of the best of those games that tend to elude us in the crowd of people who are interested in the bigger games like minecraft and Grand theft auto and the like.
     The first game that I would like to mention of the three that I shall be mentioning today is a little game called 'Perspective' that is slowly gathering followers despite it's rather unassuming origins at a university. It takes on a whole new level of platforming games that we have seen very little of thus far, it uses your screen as a 2D screen from your perspective, anything blue on the screen is a solid surface in 2D and anything that isn't, simply isn't there as far as your little character is concerned, other than the orange areas, those'll kill you. Of course the game also features you as a character in a 3D world and you may move around the area to gain a different perspective on where your 2D character is, to unlock the pathway to the teleporter,  which finishes the level, it's a brilliant puzzle game that I think you'll find quite addictive. I will try and get some gameplay footage on youtube of the game if I can and I will link it here when I do. 'Perspective' is available for download at this URL: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=25930 at the bottom of the page.
     The second case that I'd like to plead is slendytubbies, now, I am well aware that many have heard of this game and that it is very basic but it is still a very good game, almost entirely because it has that many more options than the slenderman game. The game includes three modes (I would imagine in a vain attempt to make it seem less scary) of Day, Dusk, and Night, each in their own right will scare you out of your wits if you play on singleplayer, the main aim is to find 10 'tubbycustards' throughout the map whilst being chased by what I like to call, 'the slendertubby' as you find each custard, the slendertubby becomes faster, and more agile, ultimately meaning, more dangerous to you and your, quite frankly, epic mission to find the ten tubbycustards and escape the grasp of demented TINKYWINKY!!!! As well as the great fun you can have on the singleplayer (emptying your bowels) you can also have just as much if not more fun on the multiplayer, you can either have a match where the slendertubby is an AI NPC or one person can host and chase the others, I don't know how many people you can have in the game but when using the Hamachi servers the server limit is 5 so I would guess 4 or 5, however, if you have friends like I do, on a game like that, prepare yourself, you know the saying, 'with friends like these' the game can be found for download at www.zeoworks.webs.com/slendytubbies  and I shall try to make a video of gameplay shortly.
     Finally, the third and final game I would like to mention is Rigs of Rods. RoR is a little known game where you just play with physics, when you download it, you will get the choice of downloading the addon packs, (you must do this or your choice of vehicles will be utterly abysmal) and a multiplayer server client that will let you have your own server on the multiplayer function of the game, now, with the important parts of the installation out of the way, the game features (with the addons in place) over a hundred vehicles and around 40 maps to screw around on, of course these vehicles aren't just limited to cars, oh no, there are Chinook helicopters, jet fighters, WWII fighters, semi articulated trucks, 4x4s and a load of other vehicles like boats. With the soft body physics engine that they have so wonderfully done, crash effects are finally a realistic goal, much better than the likes of any mainstream game like GTA IV, and, because it's a PC game, you can mod it with new vehicles and maps as you please, meaning that this game is amazing for the price of absolutely nada. You can download it here at http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/
     Well, that's all folks, I'll be back soon with more free games for you, but for now, Sayonara.

Wednesday 19 September 2012

Media Sharing: One of the Best things that I Didn't Know About the PS3

As we all probably know, the PS3 has it's own capacity to recognize windows 7 and some Vista computers, they'll come up under the video, music and picture icons labelled with the name that you have given your computer, but, what very few of us actually know, (I only just found this out myself) Is that you can use this feature to stream videos straight from your PC to your PS3 as well as music and photos, all you have to do is follow these simple steps: First of all, turn on your PS3 and make sure that it is recognizing your computer by turning the PC on as well and connecting it to the same access point as the PS3, then, once you can see your PC's name come up on your XMB (Cross Media Bar), access Windows Media Player from your laptop, if you have opened a song to do this, select 'Switch to Library' in the top right corner. A number of options will come up. Select 'Stream' and then 'More Streaming Options' from the drop down menu, a window will come up from the control panel, and a drop down menu tab labelled 'Local Network' should be there, click on this and select 'All Networks'. Once you have done this, on the list there should be an option listed as 'Unknown Device' select the drop down menu to the right of this and select 'allowed' and then OK at the bottom of the screen, this will apply the settings that you have just changed and allow your PS3 (when your computer is on) to access the video, picture and music files on your PC, this is particularly helpful when you have videos on a laptop but the laptop only has a small 17 or 19 inch screen, it removes the need for a VGA or HDMI cable and it smooths the whole process massively.
          I hope you learned something awesome about the PS3 like I did a few hours ago!
                        - Andy B / Einstein365

Tuesday 18 September 2012

My New Racing and Drifting Team!!!

So, I got bored and thought, hmm, something I haven't done, is make a racing team, so, I made one. The ACR team (Autostrada Champions Racing) is a team of my own creation and I am gaining new people all the time, so, should you want to join, add me, Einstein365 on PSN (or SEN as Sony so stupidly called it)
        I have also started setting up a YouTube channel for the team, of course, we can only let so many people into the team so anyone who is interested in watching the videos can do so at our channel here: www.YouTube.com/TheACRteam
As of right now, the only video on there is of the pictures that we have accumulated and the names of the other members of the team are at the end of the video, comment, rate and subscribe to keep us going!!!
        Thanks - Andy B (Einstein365)

Saturday 15 September 2012

Gran Turismo 5: Personal Tuning: Dodge Viper ACR

No changes to the downforce have been made to the rear but what can be done to the front has been.

Tyres: Front: Racing Soft 
           Rear:  Racing Soft 
 Brakes: Front: 8 
              Rear:  7 
Ride Height: Front: -7 
                     Rear:   -5 
Spring Rate: Front: 8.0 
                     Rear:  8.0 
Dampers (Extension): Front: 5 
                                    Rear:  5 
Dampers (Compression) Front: 3 
                                        Rear:  5 
Anti-Roll Bars: Front: 4 
                          Rear:  4 
Camber angle (-): Front: 1.5 
                             Rear:  1.0 
Toe Angle: Front: 0.10 
                   Rear:  0.10 

Differential: 
Initial Torque: Front: N/A 
                        Rear:  15 
                        Acceleration Sensitivity: Front: N/A 
                                                                Rear:   50 
Braking Sensitivity: Front: N/A 
                                 Rear:  35 
Gear Ratios (Transmission): 
 1st Gear:    2.857 
 2nd Gear:   2.034 
 3rd Gear:    1.534 
 4th Gear:    1.209 
 5th Gear:    0.996 
 6th Gear:    0.857 
 Final Gear: 2.462 
(The max speed should say in the top corner 283mph All of the components of the car that can be bought have been, including the weight reduction and engine improvement packs, the car in this set up should reach over 252mph when properly run in as it gains about 30bhp+ once it has been driven for a little while, giving a total of above 1030bhp. If you have any inquiries about how the car is set up then send me an email at:
 abannister08@gmail.com

Friday 10 August 2012

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Speed up the 'wait' timer PS3 and Xbox

Tricks and Tips That You Need To Know:

We all know how annoying it is when you're trying to get a certain thing from a vendor, say, iron ingots for smithing, special ingredients for an alchemy potion etc. and then comes the unavoidable 'wait' timer, it is agonizingly slow and so I think that everyone should know the trick that speeds up the timer for both waiting and sleeping.

PS3: To speed up the timer on the PlayStation 3 console, press the select button, and select the amount of time you would like to sleep/wait, then press and hold the X button down, immediately after which, press the 'home' button to get to the XMB (cross media bar) all the while holding the X button, when the timer for sleeping/waiting starts to countdown, press the home button again to come back out of the XMB menu and as long as you have held the X button throughout, the timer will count down at a much faster speed and once the counter has finished, if you continue to hold down the X button, the game itself will stay at an increased speed.

Xbox: Press the back button to get the timer up to wait, then hold down 'A' after selecting the time that you wish to wait, immediately after pressing and holding 'A' press the home button, whilst on the home menu, the countdown timer should count down at several times the normal speed, the way you can confirm this is by turning your volume up and listening for the clicks of the timer as it counts down, each click represents one hour on the timer.