Archive for the 'games' Category
Let’s play some poker
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 12th May, 2008
My previous post was about the Space industry in the Isle of Man, this one is about the eGaming industry. I posted about it here some months ago, and I recently found out that one of the officials here on the Island used to work for an online gamine site called Bet365; so I thought [...]
Do you remote control?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 7th Feb, 2008
Came across a great blog today that brought back loads of memories. RC Cars Tips and Tricks is a blog about remote control cars, together with a bunch of tips and tricks on what you can do with them, RC mods you can implement and all sorts of fun. I’m a great fan of gadgets [...]
Shoot other people for money
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 1st Sep, 2007
Here’s an interesting twist on a theme. Ever since the heady days that Wolfenstein 3D graced our screens, First Person Shooters (FPSs) have gone from strength to strength; taking the genre to new heights. Today I read about an interesting development that may take it down an interesting avenue, adding renumeration to the game.
Kwari is [...]
Trying out ChaosLands
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 22nd Jul, 2007
I love the weekend. It gives me time to catch up on things and even have a few minutes to play the occasional game. As I’m so busy at the moment I make a conscious effort not to get involved in any MMORPG, but it doesn’t mean I don’t dip into a couple every now [...]
Mahjong
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 12th Apr, 2007
I think I may have an addictive personality. Sometimes I can get stuck on a game and play it over and over again, unable to ever get enough. The only solution is to delete them off my computer or vow never to visit a particular website again.
Mahjong is one of the games that fall into [...]
Games Reviews for the DS
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 27th Feb, 2007
Do you own a Nintendo DS? If you do, you should check out DSBrowse. It’s a website that specialises in news and reviews of the latest Nintendo DS games. It caters for different types of players and all the reviews have been written by people who have played the games.
It’s refreshing sometimes to get reviews [...]
£100,000 for game winner
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 9th Feb, 2007
Intereting post on the BBC about Perplex City, an alternate reality game (ARG) which has just been completed, netting the winner a £100,000 prize pot. The game started in April 2005 and has had a myriad a clues to the solution, including puzzle card, a banner plane flown across Manchester, a scavenger hunt across London, [...]
HP Puzzle hoting up
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 31st Jan, 2007
Well, I now have 43 pieces of the HP Camera puzzle. Here’s the last one out:
This is one of 48 pieces that PayPerPost has spread around the web. You know the drill, the first person to collect all 48 pieces, put them together and let PPP know could win $1000. HP is sponsoring the [...]
Flights out of the IOM
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Jan, 2007
I’ve justed booked my flight for a trip to the UK next month. It seems like connections to London seem to be more expensive this year, and the choice of airlines flying to the Isle of Man gets smaller and smaller. BA Connect still fly to the Island (we’ll see if they still will after [...]
Puzzle, puzzle, puzzle
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 29th Jan, 2007
Yup, you guessed it, here’s another puzzle piece for your collection.
So, in case you haven’t already got the story, what is this puzzle all about. Well, it’s like this. HP is trying to promote some awareness about it’s offerings in the Digital Photo Printing market. It’s doing this by sponsoring a number of posts [...]
More puzzle madness
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 28th Jan, 2007
I keep coming across more pieces of the HP Puzzle (part deux)
Here’s the blurb about the puzzle once again. The puzzle, and this post, are sponsored by HP who are trying to make a name in Digital Photo Printing and spread the word. The puzzle works this one. Michelle, a lucky PayPerPost winner, has [...]
Grab another piece
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 28th Jan, 2007
More HP Puzzle goodness coming your way from the folks down at PayPerPost. Here’s Piece number 28:
You know the drill, look for all the pieces on the Web (they should all be on people’s blogs), collect all of them and the first person to put them all together an post them to their blog [...]
Today’s my lucky day
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 27th Jan, 2007
I’m having a good day today. I started having a look at the PayPerPost HP puzzle today, and have collected all the pieces I can to date. This everning I’ve come across another.
This is another bit of the puzzle that they PayPerPost are doing to promote HP’s drive to become a leader in Digital [...]
Doing the HP Puzzle
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 27th Jan, 2007
So, I’ve decided to try and catch up and do the PayPerPost puzzle. It’s the same format as the previous one, basically a picture has been split up into 48 pieces and spread all around the web. They’re all based around a promotional push by HP who is pushing to become the market leader of [...]
