If you’re one of the very many gamers a) likes games and b) owns a 360 or a PS3 but not a Wii, then you’ll doubtless be wondering why the upcoming port of cult-favourite No More Heroes – the hardcoriest hardcore Wii game in existence – is currently not due for a release outside of Japan.
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Never let it be said that the Spectre is behind the times – at least according to this article in today’s Telegraph. Yep, no sooner do we suggest real life death match arenas-and get you to join in, than developers 2k wade in with Mystery World, taking a war-torn future Dubai as its setting.
Game backdrops include the Burj Dubai –complete with gaping hole, and a certain sail-shaped hotel – also with a mortar induced makeover. Electric Spectre of course frowns upon this type of rampant opportunism (although if the game’s a hit, we think we deserve a cut…).
If you’re anything like me then a lifetime of playing videogames has imbued you with a hyperactive imagination and terrible, fraught dreams. I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve fought the urge to shoot a CCTV camera, (with a silenced pistol obviously) and there’s a part of me that wants to dive behind anything that looks like it might provide some kind of short-term cover from enemy-fire.
But more powerful even than these is the curious daydreaming fantasy where I turn everyday real-life locations into multiplayer deathmatch maps. Therefore I want to enquire of you, dear readers: Which real-life locations would make awesome multiplayer maps, and why.
My personal favourite (to get the ball rolling) would be the quad back at my old school. I know how to get up into the old clock tower, which would make an excellent sniping-point.
Bung your submissions in the comments box, or post them on Twitter to @electricspectre. If response is good enough then I’ll post the best ones in a shiny-new post later on.
Get that overactive imagination working!
Mininova.org, formerly the world’s (second) most popular source of bittorrent files has, today, closed its doors to the unruly world of illegal filesharing.
The news popped up on their blog, read the full post for all the info here, but it seems as if they have bowed to some kind of pressure from the Dutch Court of Utrecht, who deemed the site unlawful way back in August.
Mininova will still be running a content distribution service, but this effectively marks the end for it’s pirate-enabling swashbuckery.
Electric Spectre wishes to make clear that it never used the site, and never benefited from it’s easy-to-use interface and helpful community, and as such is not upset by this news and is in no way concerned with finding a site of equivalent quality in the future.
We’re not too brilliant at the whole ‘making stuff work on the internet’ here at Electric Spectre. We had to call in a crack team of design and code monkeys to make this site look as good as it does today – (Thanks Toggle!) Luckily however there is a new tool available called BaseKit that makes designing sites simple enough that I can do it. And I have the practical web skills of a chimp. Basically it involves making a nice looking site in Photoshop, naming your layers properly, uploading them to the tool and selecting the areas you want to do things, and telling them what things you want them to do. Easy! But check out the video. Makes things far clearer.
The whole thing is free right now, as it is in beta – and lucky for you – we have 20 lovely beta invites for our very special readers. Just mail beta@basekit.com with ‘ES Beta Invite’ in the subject line and you can have a go too…
