I had so much fun at the London Anime Convention that I ended up not taking many photos during the day. I did have a friend who borrowed my camera for a while to take some for me but pretty much 90% of those were too blurry to bother uploading. Here’s what’s left after scanning through the folder for post-worthy shots—not much to choose from I’m afraid.
The Turtle Beach gaming headsets are constantly referenced in the Xbox Live gaming scene. Countless times I've been asked if I'm using a Turtle Beach headset when my opponents are surprised that I knew they were coming around the corner in Call of Duty 4, this is obviously just their ignorance of not taking advantage of in-game sounds but that's a topic for another day. Unlike the previously reviewed SteelSeries Siberia Neckband, the EFX1 is built with gaming exclusively in mind, but does this offer it any distinct advantages over the Neckband? Obviously I'm not going to give you a ...
A lot of people take gaming headsets for granted nowadays. Those of us who use them are so accustomed to headsets that we don't really consider them a special piece of hardware, and those who don't have a pair usually haven't realised the benefits of using one just yet. The Siberia Neckband has been out for over a year now, and I've owned them for that long too. Still, having your own blog means making up your own rules, and reviewing old products is one of those made-up rules at the moment. As the name implies, the Neckband goes around ...
I had so much fun at the London Anime Convention that I ended up not taking many photos during the day. I did have a friend who borrowed my camera for a while to take some for me but pretty much 90% of those were too blurry to bother uploading. Here’s what’s left after scanning through the folder for post-worthy shots—not much to choose from I’m afraid.
I’m ridiculously late for work right now so I had to rush through this post quickly. As you can no doubt see, I’ve uploaded this year’s expo photos online (finally). DiabloCableGuy was also there with me and was kind enough to transfer his photos over to my netbook before we parted ways, so the gallery below contains photos from both of us. Anyway, check out the gallery below, I’ll edit this post properly when I’m not in a massive rush!
I admit, it’s kind of stupid that I’ve only just uploaded last year’s London Expo photos on the same day I’m leaving for this year’s one. Still, for the sake of keeping a record of my convention escapades, I say it’s better (super) late than never, right? I snapped about 500 photos, but I just picked out 70 of them to crop and upload because I’m far too lazy to crop that many images. You’ll see this year’s expo photos on the blog much, much sooner – promise. Anyway, get to da choppa after the jump for the gallery.
With my real life work (mostly) under control and the London MCM Expo being today, I think now is a good time to start blogging again. My updates will gradually become more frequent since right now I’m focusing my time on a new blog template which will be a lot less fail than the current one. Once that’s online, I can dedicate my time to writing ‘original’ content and not worry about how crap my blog looks to me. That’s a lie of course, because I still have to work the day job and write for DamnLag.com, but long story short you’ll be seeing more and more updates from now on… yay?
I’ve been poking around the forums to see if anyone would be interested in a Ventrilo server for Zetzio and the response has been quite positive. So as promised on the forum, I looked into purchasing a server for us as soon as I got back from the London MCM Expo. In case some people aren’t familiar with Ventrilo, it’s a VoIP program which lets you voice chat in a group, a little like party chat on Xbox Live. You can use it to communicate with your team on a PC game or just drop in for a friendly chat with other members of the community. Information on joining our server can be found after the jump.
I’m a little late with this explanation but better late than never I guess. Early in August my company went to court with another party over a dispute which has escalated and is still ongoing. Obviously, legal action is ‘srs bsns’ and I’ve had to take a break from the blog to focus on this case. Making matters worse is my computer dying on me roughly a month ago, my attempts at fixing it haven’t done much yet. I could have written some articles in my spare time but that isn’t going to happen until I can find a Phoenix Down for the PC, but for now all I can do is apologise and post an image of a cute puppy.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was the first series to truly push me into anime, and so it’s probably no surprise that Rei Ayanami is among my favourite characters in the medium. I bumped into this statue during the London MCM Expo in May this year, and it didn’t take much for me to make the impulse purchase. This 1/12 scale statue is based on a 2003 resin kit which was sculpted by Tsukuru Shirahige and manufactured by Kotobukiya. As Rei is on a BMX, the height comes in at 15cm and the whole statue is pre-painted PVC.
I’m really enjoying these Dead Fantasy videos from Monty Oum, but he may be going a little off track with the latest video. I’m interested in cool fight scenes with video game characters that are quite experienced in the art of ass-whooping, not scenes of Tifa being emotional and trying to unsuccessfully pull on my heart strings or something. Still, Monty slightly makes up for this with the fight scene in the garage which reminded me a little of Jackie Chan. How are you guys finding the Dead Fantast videos so far?
Some posters for the Halo anime that’s in production have surfaced, and if anything they’re a nice indication of the art style each studio is going for in the various shorts. Looking through each poster, the ones that catch my eye most are the one with the Master Chief going toe to toe with whatever the hell that giant thing is, and also the one I’ve used in the top image. I’m not too sure about the one by studio Bones which seems to have some sort of mecha Spartans in space or something.
Continue reading Which of these Halo Legends posters looks most interesting?
I’m sure you’ve all laid your eyes upon the recently released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer debut trailer, if not then you can watch it after the jump. There’s a lot to take in and it was only a matter of time before someone checked the footage frame by frame to see what’s new in this trailer. I’m far too lazy to analyse a trailer, but fortunately someone at Endsights.com wasn’t, so hit the jump on the interesting things they spotted in the new footage.
Continue reading What does the MW2 multiplayer debut trailer show us?