Generic Hell: June 2008

Sunday, 29 June 2008

The Incredible Hulk : 80s movie moment

I am a big fan of the Hulk and I really enjoyed the movie featuring Edward Norton and Liv Tyler and my favourite fan moment is when Edward Norton is walking back after being attack by General Ross's forces for the first time. The music comes up to show this sad moment of failure and its from the original TV series. Awesome, it made the hairs on my neck stand up!

Bill Bixby(Front) and Lou Ferrigno(Green at the Back)

Official The Incredible Hulk Website:
http://incrediblehulk.marvel.com/

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution : My Achievements(2)

A Short Life of Glory

You have won as a Greek civilization! - 15G

I Will Not Be Triumphed Over

You have won as an Egyptian civilization! - 15G

XBOX 360 : Old friends and XBOX Live

Over the last few months, I have ran into a number of old friends and usually we end up chatting about life, work and then gaming. At which point, we usually discover we have XBOX 360s and instead of passing mobile numbers and email addresses, its gamertags. I guess the XBOX Live community really does work.

Official XBOX Live Community:
http://www.xbox.com

Saturday, 28 June 2008

Frontlines Fuel of War : Boneyard

Frontlines Fuel of War has been updated by the addition of a free map downloadable from XBOX Live now and the 32 player limit on games has been increased to 50!

Official Frontline:Fuel of War Website:
http://www.frontlines.com

Big Brother 9 : Sylvia out

Sylvia maybe a very pretty girl, but looks can't save you, if you act like a love crazed stalker, poor old Stuart.

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother

The Dark Knight : Brandon Lee and Heath Ledger?

So, I was watching the "The Crow", a comic book adapted movie from 1994 and what struck me was how much Brandon Lee's character looked like the new Joker, Heath Ledger.

Brandon Lee(Left) and Heath Ledger(Right)

Ok, they look similar and they are both playing comic book characters, but then of course they both died in accidents. I kept digging and discovered they were both twenty eight and the time length between "The Crow" and "The Dark Knight" is fourteen years, when doubled that is twenty eight, freaky huh? Is it a comic book jinx like the Superman curse?

Friday, 27 June 2008

Big Brother 9 : Year of the rule breakers?

Dennis has been removed from the Big Brother house for spitting into Mohamed's face. I have to admit that this pretty offensive behaviour, it only a game show!

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

General : Generic Hell is one today!

Happy Birthday Generic Hell, I can hardly believe it has been a year since I started this blog.

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Alan Wake : Camera phone footage

I do not normally embed video, but I am going to make an exception for this footage of a technical demonstration of Alan Wake, because it is very impressive.

Official Alan Wake website :
http://www.alanwake.com

My Gaming History : Microsoft XBOX 360

Microsoft XBOX 360 (2005 to Present)

In 2006, I had been thinking about buying a new console, the XBOX 360 caught my eye due to its use of high definition graphics, quality sound and XBOX Live community. The PlayStation 3 seemed a long way off and I want to play high quality games without the fuss or expense of upgrading my PCs. The XBOX 360 delivers, but check out the system specification yourself;

Custom PowerPC-based CPU

3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz
2 hardware threads per core (6 hardware threads total)
1 MB L2 cache
2.7GHz Front Side Bus

Custom ATI Graphics

Processor 500 MHz clock speed
10 MB embedded DRAM (256GB/s)
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Memory

512 MB GDDR3 RAM
Unified memory architecture

The Incredible Hulk™ : My Achievements(1)

Master Of Disaster

Destroyed every building in a New York City neighborhood. - 35G

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution : My Achievements(2)

An Indomitable Will

You have won as an Indian civilization! - 15G

Curse of the Drinking Class

Your city has achieved 200 resource production! - 25G

Big Brother 9 : The replacement

One house mate removed another is added, this is Stuart!

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Guitar Hero III : That's What Friends Are For

My friend and I decided to play a co-op career to maybe achieve a few extra points, but after about an hour and forty minutes, we completed the songs, up came the achievement "That's What Friends Are For", but being cheap, GH3 gave me the achievement and not my friend. That is pretty bad considering the time involved!

Guitar Hero III : My Achievements(1)

That's What Friends Are For

Complete Co-op Career - 25G

The Incredible Hulk™ : My Achievements(5)

Enemy Of The Empire State

Found all the landmark souvenirs in New York City. - 50G

Sightseeing

Climbed to the top of the five tallest buildings in New York City. - 5G

Home Run

Knocked an enemy a distance of at least 436 feet. - 5G

Apprentice Of Disaster

Destroyed a building in each New York City neighborhood. - 25G

Pickin' Up The Pieces

Smashed 10,000 things. - 20G

Big Brother 9 : Alexandra out

Alexandra has been removed, say no more, she doesn't deserve the publicity!

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother

Monday, 16 June 2008

Alan Wake : What happened?

Alan Wake was set to become the best action thriller of 2007 and then it disappeared, what happened? I heard rumours Microsoft had scrapped development in order to finish Fable 2, but why is there still an Alan Wake website?

Official Alan Wake website :
http://www.alanwake.com

Gadgets : Acer 24" Wide Screen X243w

Good Points

Resolution 1920 x 1200
Refresh Rate 5ms
15 pin VGA input
Simple menu system

Bad Points

No HDMI
Running my XBOX 360 at 1920 x 1080, it had some problems auto adjusting

Conclusion; Really good monitor both for computers and XBOX 360 plus it is good value for money.

Further Reading :
http://global.acer.com/products/monitor/X_series.htm

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution : My Achievements(6)

Destroyer of Worlds

You have won all types of victories! - 30G

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

You have won an Economic Victory! - 20G

A Knight Without Fear or Blame

You have won as an Arab civilization! - 15G

The Will to Win is Everything

Your unit has had 20 wins in battle! - 25G

Ideas Control the World

You have won a Technology Victory! - 20G

Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom

You have won as a Chinese civilization! - 15G

My Gaming History : Personal Computers

Personal Computers (1995 to Present)

Skipping back in time to 1995, I purchased my first personal computer, it was a homebrew from a local computer store after that I have had a large number of different PCs. So, I have listed them roughly in order starting from my first 486.