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The Great Horace Move

This week see's me hurling ass across a few counties as I move into my new village based location (long story).

However after signing all my documents and trying to get the ball rolling it now seems that I might well be that 8% of the country with no BROADBAND!!!!

At first I wasn't too concerned sure I'd miss online gaming, ok it means most of my shopping online will be done in the constraints of work time....

But then it hit me..

No WiiWare updates, no more iPlayer, no more skype calls to my worldly friends.

I've become prehistoric.

In the modern age our demands and expectations are constantly changing, usually for the better more latest products and services. But to now be placed into the realm of the old dialling rotatory phones would I also have to jump back onto the dial up wagon??

In a means to hopefully resolve this and restore some levels of comfort to my spiralling problems, I decided to stump up and get my AT&T mini sim removed from my iPad and have now invested in a three Sim supposedly I will have connection, out doors lol!

But I think what is more surprising is our dependence on technologies which have been around for less than 10 years in a non commercial sense. And how embedded technology has become in our every day life.

Needless to say the next few months might be a challenge... What a Great Horace Move this is turning out to be!

Just a regular Saturday

As my afternoon escapes me I am wondering how I use to spend hours playing on my SNES until my fingers developed blisters and I could only muster a random fireball on street figther 2 (which I brought as an import for the bargain price of �£83).

Now reluctanly in my 30s I find that while I want to play games for hours on end the whole process bores me some what.

Games are harder and take longer to complete, we have achievements to gain or we are no longer seen as a man but a mere child.

Gamers these days have a lot to measure up to and if you've not completed Devil May Cry 4 without using a save and in 6 hours, you might as well find a cliff to jump from because unlike the Master Chief you suck.

So when did this actual gaming culture shift occur?

In some ways I hate the develops that have occurred as while I really do want to be part of the latest gadgets and consoles I find that I now am that distant relative to gaming.

So now I am left having a regular Saturday until I to can live like a Life on Mars when gaming was fun.

Sorry it's been a while

So over the past couple of months I've been extremely busy with work, the new BBC website, the latest iPlayer Beta went live today (please go and have a look). We've been busy developing new apps for the iPhone 4G and iPad to take advantage of the higher resolution and performance increases.

So all in all extremely busy.

So what now.... In a few short weeks Nintendo will be showcasing the final design of the 3DS YEY!!!

Trying to work out what I can say after being slapped silly so need to be good.

But I can say that with a degree of confidence that the new hand held will support Flash 10.1 don't ask me how I know but I do and some other bits and pieces oh and one more thing so the slap is worth it...
new overlay OS!

React, Reboot and Enjoy

So with the recent purchase of Red Steel 2, I've dragged the Wii out of it's storage box and given it a quick dust down.

I played roughly the first hour of Red Steel and actually thought it was pretty good, although the movement into enclosed zones is slightly annoying and makes it always feel your in a very small environment than part of something alot bigger.

Anyway after my boot and play I decided to visit the Nintendo Store and top up my Points balance to download some new WiiWare games.

So the first one I got was Max and the Magic Marker........ OH BOY what a cool game, I wasn't sure who the intended player is suppose to be but the game is extremely good and got me thinking about all my other Wii games which I'm gonna give another reboot.

I've now played 5 hours on the Wii, my right wrist aches but I've just had the most enjoyable afternoon in a long while... granted I've not been able to snipe or get a clan going....(huff) but I actually think that maybe a few of those old Wii games are actually pretty special.

So until I jet off on my usual visit to Asia and Oz I am dedicating my time to the Wii in order to feel that once again I'm a Nintendo fan boy but to really enjoy those titles that I probably didn't spend enough time with before.

Battalion Wars 2.... it really is that good

This is me

So today it's gonna be like the old show and tell sessions we had in school.

(not sure if that is legal these days....)

Anyway so I work for the BBC in there Future Media division, we get to see and play with all the latest kit before it even gets announced, we get to build and think about how we can use these new platforms to strengthen the BBC brand... all pretty cool.

Our recent successes have been the introduction of the Wii iPlayer late last year (2009) it was a technical achievement for the hardware as the limitations of the Wii caching meant a separate encoding system was needed. But it works and because of the efforts of the teams Nintendo look to us in strengthen there platforms with great content, not just on the Wii but upcoming portable devices.

The way media will be delivered in any form is changing, it's a really exciting environment and I'm really pleased to be involved in it.

From the developments of our new Game brands being developed in house to out sourcing, our test plans for 3D driven technology to our open Canvas platforms that allow even Nintendo to have there own TV channel it's a nerd like me that loves his job.

Please Please Please check out the new Doctor Who website which will go live at 13:00 22/03/2010

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