During this year’s CNY visiting, we had a chance to try out the Xbox Kinect’s at Kelvin’s place. I dare say this is the future of gaming, that is, getting you physically involved playing the game. Nintendo Wii started it years ago with their motion sensing controllers, luring traditionally non-gaming adults and children engaged in …
You may recall in my earlier post about Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (NFS: HP), I briefly mentioned about the driving simulation game, Gran Turismo 5 (GT5), and how people would buy PS3 and steering wheel just for that game? I did that too! Well, for 1 day. I can only (barely) afford to play one …
Gran Turismo 5: The Beginning of the Baby Racer? Read More »
The Hot Pursuit Challenge has ended today. I believe the winning timing remains at 1:21:22 and top five were below the timing of 1:46. The best I did was 2:15 during the contest which is not good enough to win the Bravia TVs. But I did walk away with a PS3 Move Pen that blinks. It’s …
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Challenge – Not Good Enough Read More »
In case you are wondering what I been busy with, I been practising for the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Challenge. EA Singapore is giving away 5 Sony LCD TVs to the top 5 timing for the course “Snake Pit”. Basically you play a cop and try to bust 5 racers in the shortest timing. Not an …
I bought a t-shirt with the above graphics from Bangkok many years ago but it still puts a smile on my face whenever I wear it. Guess it sums up what a Geek I am. I haven’t been playing much games on my PS3 ever since I decided to use the time to shred some …
Image from Zynga. While I did mention in the earlier post that I might do a post on the gaming mechanics of Mafia Wars, I have decided not to do it as 1) there are a number of good sites with great information already online, 2) I just started on the game recently so I …
Playing games has been a big part of my childhood, from old school handheld Nintendo Game & Watch series like Octopus and Donkey Kong (not forgetting Egg, Fire, Parachute, Popeye) to the Casio Game’s iconic Western Bar & Kungfu to Pacman on Mac to game consoles like Atari, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Famicom, Sega, Playstation and …
