Los Havros

All the headings you see below are scattered thoughts and opinions of mine.  They don’t necessarily follow on from each other.
In the beginning
Well, where to start?  I guess I’ll mention first that Ensemble Studios has to be one of my favourite developers due to their sterling work on the Age of Empires series.  I grew [...]

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Righty.  This post originally started out as a tweet, which became an aside, which became a fully-fleged post!  The reason why?  I mainly talk about games on my blog and I thought it would be time for something a little bit different, and when I get onto talking about computers, networks and technology, I just [...]

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Meet the teams bringing BioShock to PS3 (plus new screens!)- To be honest, even after seeing screenshots and various reviews of BioShock on the Xbox 360 and PC, I wasn’t really interested.  Now that it’s coming out on the PS3 I might get it.  Am I being lazy in this regard?  Yes, it’s fair to [...]

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Ok, I’m really starting to like the Mac- a lot. I’ve also noticed amongst other things that web designers and other creative people use Macs. So I guess I’ll start off with why I like the whole idea of the Mac. Both hardware and software is made/controlled by Apple which means that [...]

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Holy Crap! Doom 4 announced- Says PC gaming site Big Download.  I’ve never played Doom, probably because I’d be too scared.  Whatever you think, this news is HUGE.  Back in the day Doom 3 set the benchmark for quality graphics and being a thoughtful remake of the original Doom, was well received.

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This post was originally written on the City In The Clouds blog.
Wow, another expansion pack!  Looking back through the Age series, there has generally only been one expansion pack per game.  Age of Empires III gets its second expansion pack!  I suppose the most interesting thing to note is that Ensemble Studios is NOT the [...]

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