Tuesday, October 31, 2006
#95 Cabbage patch kids news post...
Whew, took a while to get the news post done there eh, for a second I thought I was going to quit the webcomic world once and for all. That’s a lie. So anyway here we are on the precipice of Halloween! The spookiest non-holiday of the year, where even small children become as fearsome as a knife wielding muggers, proposing you hand over your valuable treats or face the trick (stabbing) of a lifetime. Oh how I love it so. Anyway I think the comic is fairly self explanatory: Violence is cool.
EXCEPT in a movie I watched last night. UltraViolet, based on the comic of the same name it was a hideous abomination of a film that I urge you all to avoid like the plagueiest of plagues. I’ll tell you what is very cool though. A little RPG for the DS called Contact. I shall resist spilling details, I’m sure you all know how to google for reviews and information about games. If you’ve been looking for a quality and original RPG adventure for your touch screen portable I strongly suggest you check this one out, I’m really enjoying my time with it so far.
Website news: You may have noticed our html archive is being neglected and updated sporadically and inconsistently. This is not our fault. Believe us lol. The good news is work should start soon on our brand new website! I can’t wait. Have a good working week!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
XBox 360 advert I made for my Degree
Heres a print ad I made for the 360 for my degree in MCC. I'm not sure whether I'll use it in my final project or not but I figured Id post it. Just an aside: I didn't use the cutout filter once. Anything that looks cutout (the controller) was painstakingly done so by hand.
Badge designs...
In preparation for the upcoming Webcomix Thing 07 we have begun to prepare a bunch of merch and freebies to give away at the event! Here are some badge designs we'll be getting made up, at least, we will if you guys like 'em! Take a look and leave a comment to let us know! Thanks crew!
Friday, October 27, 2006
New PS3 Commercial...
Shit yourself with fear. Playstation is coming.
My custom 360 faceplate AT LAST!
Finaly got my 360 faceplate made up! Heres a digital photo labeled for your viewing pleasure.
Monday, October 23, 2006
#93 "Must... adapt... Halo!" news post...
First things first, check out the custom faceplate I'll have on my 360 in roughly a weeks time! Shweet.
Universal Studios have cancelled the movie adaptation of Halo. Apparently due to rapidly inflating costs (not helped by Microsofts demand of 10% of all revenue) and Universal having serious doubts in its young inexperienced Director. Neil Bloomkamp has never directed a feature film, oh wait, he did do one short film and he was a 3D animator on Smallville and Stargate*shrug*
We don't have anything against him at all, hell he could even be 90 for all we know, we just wanted to make a joke out of it.
In other news happy belated anniversary to Digital Unrest, a fellow webcomic run by Chris Simmons, if you have not heard about it go check it out! Just a short post today but be sure to read James' post for his public love letter to his new TV.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Custom 360 faceplate...
Here is my design for a custom Xbox 360 faceplate. I'll post you a digital photo when it is finished and fitted :)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
#92 "Such as?" News post...
You may have noticed our HTML archive hasn't been updated for a while now. We are experiencing some slight technical difficulties however if you bear with us for this you will find a light at the end of the tunnel. By the end of November RPG-TV is getting a brand new website! All HTML and fully functional unlike our current patchwork of a website. Watch this space!
In other news XBoxLive was down for 24 hours so that Lumines Live could hit the market place. In that 24 hours myself and James had to find other things to amuse us. For instance I went and got my hair cut and James as I beleive went on a thieving rampage killing all in his path, good times.
For anyone in the US I beleive Contact for the Nintendo DS hit your shelves this week? I have my copy pre-ordered from my usual import store so I should get it through the post any day now. I'm really excited, its been quite a while since I picked my DS up for anything other than a handy dandy alarm clock. Anyone who bought the game please let me know your thoughts in the forum or drop us a comment on myspace!
A lot of the big comics have been discussing the latest demo to hit XBL, namely Splinter Cell DA. All I can say is I've played it once, every other time it took so long to join a game that I lost patience and loaded up Far Cry instead. I hope the single player experience has a lot to offer because I'm not really sold from the single multiplayer experience I had.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
#91 Deadly serious news post...
The Phantasy Star Universe beta has caused me a lot of grief. It was going to be the way me and James spent our weekend as we planned on getting the most of our one meg download. As it turned out we didn't get the chance to even create a character. Even though I downloaded it the day it became available I have been unable to connect to the Phantasy Star servers because there is a limit to the number of people allowed on at any given time. This was not made clear. I trust there are many others out there equally pissed at this blunder. Joystiq have a nice summary of this disasterous beta that I shall quote you here...
The amount of time the PSU beta would be available has been constantly diminishing, marred by a series of problems. Let's recap:
- The beta is announced as being up for download Oct 11 and 12 and then open to play until October 18. That gives us at most an entire week of gaming.
- Near the eleventh hour, Sega announced that the download would be delayed, but promised within a few days. The download then comes available this weekend, but still only lasts until October 18. Two less days to enjoy PSU.
- Xbox Live announces that they will be down for maintenance October 17th for up to 24 hours. That's another day we can scratch off.
- Server issues plague the PSU beta.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Nintendo Fan sells treasure trove of Nintendo mag's...
Ebay user Ooshy has what can only be described as a ridiculously vast collection of NGC magazines, all of which are now up for sale in one big auction.
Brief overview of collection includes:
- Magazines:
- Stack of magazine from issue 1 - 120. All in good - perfect condition.
- The "Free Gifts" on the magazines:
- Many posters of varying sizes
- A4 Cardboard print outs of game characters
- Assorted Stickers
- The "Game Guide +"collection from early magazines.
- Guide books
- Tips books
- DVD's
- A limited edition video
- Various toys such as a Keyring, and Nintendo Playing Cards
- Many other's
Check out the auction here and just browse the photos of the various collectables! Soooo many cheat books...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The reason we're obsessed with Far Cry...
This video is what sold us on the game and the reason we continue to rant about it in our news posts...
#90 "A small large fee" news post...
This shit Sega are pulling on Xbox Live gold subscribers is ridiculous and the manner with which they present the proposition is damn near insulting. If our rather explanatory comic hasn't demystified the situation enough for you, point your inter-browser here and have a read. Phantasy Star Universe is coming out across multiple platforms in a month or so and EVERYONE is going to have to pay $10 a month to play online, even if you have an Xbox Live gold subscription. Heres what 1Up got out of Sega...
"One, we can confirm Xbox 360 users will not be subject to microtransactions. The $10 a month GUARDIAN license provides access to all additional content, which Sega says includes "quests, maps, bosses, enemies, weapons, armor, clothes, Photon Arts, SUV weapons for CAST and Nanoblast attacks for beast characters, My Room items and decor (including holiday themes), and more."
It seems to me that "aditional content" such as "quests, maps, enemies, weapons, clothes..." etc should either be built into the game to start with... you know... like games have had for YEARS or, if you MUST create additional content, give users the choice to purchase it. Don't force it on people with a monthly charge.
Yuck.
Anyway just a reminder for those that havn't visited lately, we have new podcasts up in the PODCAST section (strangely) so if you enjoyed our first forray into the land of podcasting months ago then you may want to go check out the new content. Enjoy guys!
Monday, October 09, 2006
#89 "To be this redundant takes ages"
The Sonic The Hedgehog demo has been on Xbox Live for a week or so now and I finaly got around to taking it for a figurative spin. My hopes for the next generation of Sonic titles have been immeasurably high. Lately the franchise has taken a severe beating from a publisher that seems tonot care what ridiculous games its characters appear in. Consequently I've been praying that this title would be the return to former glory... or at least to Sonic Adventure 1 quality. The demo has unfortunately failed to alleviate any of my worries and suffers from the same issues that have plagued the series ever since it made the leap to three dimensions. The camera is a bitch to control and likewise so is sonic as I found the homing attack launching me off the runway to my gloomy demise far more often than was my own fault. Playing as a character with uncontrolable lemming-like tendancies can be REAL frustrating. To the point of hanging one's self after extended play? Maybe.
In the Podcast for this comic we kind of started recording half way through, when we had a general idea what to do with the strip. Everything before that point was just us Ummming and Uhhhing so don't feel as though you're missing out.
Speaking of missing out, if any of you still have yet to see the World of Warcraft episode of SouthPark and don't use a torrent program etc, then check out my personal blog where I've embeded it in full here.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
SouthPark does World of Warcraft...
I'm sure many of you have heard of this episode and may not have seen it so I've embedded it below for you're viewing pleasure.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Wallpapers...
Here are some Wallpapers for y'all! Appologies that only 1024 x 768 resolution is supported but if you stretch to fit, because its a cartoon and not photographic imagery, it is unlikely that it will look too shabby. Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
#88 "A need for dentistry" news post...
Ok the dark times are passed us, we are moving on. Never again will an update be missed under penalty of a severe wedgy. Ok first up, we have a new Podcast available for download in the requested MP3 format! Appologies for the low audio quality we forgot to change the recorder from high to low compression. We'll remedy that for next time though. The pod of cast is basicly half an hour of me and "JJ" trying to write todays comic. What we went with may not be clear to all but the most entrenched in geek culture so let me lay it down for you. Ken Lobb, formerly of Rare (incidently that shitty gun in Golden Eye, the Klobb, was named after him!) now working for Microsoft gave a brief review of Gears of War. A Microsoft Game. I for one am astounded that someone who works for M$ would give such a glowing review. I'm led to beleive he said it will "Kick your fucking teeth in" from popular gaming blog Kotaku.
I'm not saying it won't. I'm just saying i'll hold out for a few more reviews before I go and lay down some pre-order dough.
In personal news, my trip to Disney was amazing! You can see a couple photos here, if you are so inclined. Also I have returned to an Internet ready house so as soon as I find a 15m ethernet cable I'll be back on Xbox Live. I miss it so, so much it's really quite distressing!
Euro Disney 2006!...
Me and Tash went to Euro Disney a few days ago which is why we missed an update. So you can see it wasn't for nothing here is a handful of the photos of us having an awesome time!
