Well, not cool, but evil at least! With your big, lumbering, expensive, horrible products and your total disdain for the average Joe who just wants to set up his wireless internet. But never mind all that. Now we’ve learned via Pocketlint that Bill Gates, figurehead of Microsoft despite being several years retired – is on Twitter and making himself (and by extension Microsoft) look all cuddly and approachable.
Boo! I don’t like friendly Microsoft, I miss evil, seven-billion-pounds-for-the-student-edition Microsoft! No wonder Google have taken over as Apple’s main competitor. If this keeps up it wont be long before they ‘do a Sega’ and drop out of the race entirely. they’ll probably choose to ‘focus exclusively on their touchscreen dinner-table division’ or somesuch.
Sorry, this has turned into a bit of a rant about how Microsoft are less powerful and evil than I wish they were. What this says about me I’m not sure, but anyway – you can follow Captain Gates himself at twitter.com/billgates
Reading comics takes far too much effort. You have to go to the shop – or wait for the postie to deliver, and then need to use your hands to turn the pages and worst of all moves your eyes to each panel. Thankfully, we can save all this effort thanks to the Digital Comics application on the Sony PSP.
How does a big old paper comic fit on a tiny PSP screen? Thanks to the magic of Autoflow. A simple click on the PSP D-Pad and the app swoops into life focusing on a section of the comic for easy reading so you will never miss a piece of stunning art or an important speech bubble. You can see it in action in the video below.
The service has a great range of comics available at reasonable prices. The very first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man all the way back from 1963 is available for £1.19 as are the weekly progs from 2000AD. Issues of cult classic Wormwood by Ben Templesmith can be picked up for only 79p and come with an audio commentary from the great man.
There are a couple of niggles with the service. First is that you have to buy comics through the PlayStation Store on PSP or PC and not through the app itself. You also need to connect to a PC to delete issues you no longer want taking up Memory Stick space, though this is to be patched in a future version.
Though it has only been live for a couple of weeks, the Digital Comics service is already a great addition to the PSP and is essential to any comic loving commuter. Now you no longer need to bring your comics onto the bus or train and hope that they don’t get sodden in the rain. That bloke sneaking a look behind you won’t sneeze and cover your treasured issue in phlegm. That stampede at Kings Cross station won’t rip your comic out of your hand. Best of all you can even listen to MP3s while you read to fully block out the most annoying people in the carriage.
Digital Comics is a free download with PSP Update 6.20.
You can check out the full range of comics at http://www.playstationcomics.com/
Reading comics takes far too much effort. You have to go to the shop – or wait for the postie to deliver, and then need to use your hands to turn the pages and worst of all move your eyes to each panel. Thankfully, we can save all this effort thanks to the Digital Comics application on the Sony PSP.
Few gaming terms fill my heart with quite so much joy as ‘bullet hell.’ I can almost feel the sweat pricking my palms as I frantically nudge my guy/spaceship/lolita out the path of a stream of laser-fire whilst avoiding a corona of fireballs spiralling towards me from another direction. That’s why the news that Death Smiles, the frankly mental horizontal shmup is making the journey to western shores makes me very happy indeed.
The press release is titled: “DEATH SMILES AT EVERYONE. LOLIS SMILE BACK.”
THIS IS A GOOD START.
No word yet on whether this is a download-title or a full in-the-shops-drag-your-sorry-arse-to-HMV affair, my money’s on the former, and frankly I think it has a better chance of doing well as a download title. I’d buy it I will be buying it in any case.
Oh, one more piece of good news concerning this game. The bad guy’s name is… wait for it…
Imperator Tyrannosatan.
Any word of a release date, you’ll know as soon as we hear.
The makers of the best trainers in the world Nike (No, I’m not being paid to say that – I genuinely love Nike, and turn a blind eye to whatever sweatshop tactics they may use because, goddamn they’re cool shoes.) and cooler than thou magazine / film company / site Vice have teamed up to bring us a new geolocation app that allows users to find out the coolest spots in a variety of cities. – Nike True City.
It’s essentially a Google Maps mash up, showing the locations of a variety of restaurants, clubs, shops and general cool shit. Some of the things on there are pretty obvious. Yes the Natural History museum is impossibly awesome, but we all knew that when we were five. Luckily there are some genuine gems on there that would really go unnoticed. I’ve discovered that there is a proper (Not Yo, or anything like that, but PROPER) Sushi restaurant in walking distance from my house. Which is quite likely to get a visit. So, thanks Nike!
Well worth a download (It’s free, so no excuses) especially if you’re going to be jetting off to any of the other five cites featured on the app. It’s like having a polite, mute hipster in your pocket, giving you advice. Nice one.
Looking for a unique fixer-upper opportunity? How about a bloody great space station? You may not have considered the unique pleasure of owning five bio-domes (each full of easily hunt-and-kill-able alien species), a bar selling weird alien booze, and even an..erm..auctioneer…but with this gigantic trade and revival station you can have it all!
