On 12th February 2009 there will be a LIVE event in London where 8 gamers from around Europe will compete against each other and be the first to play FEAR 2: Project Origin.
Anyone can enter and all winners will have their expenses paid to get to London for the event.
For more information and to enter, visit www.whatisfearlive.com
Closing date for entries is 2nd February 2009
Just a quick note to let you know that there will be a playing demo this week on Thursday for F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin.
The demo will be available on Xbox Live, PSN Store and for PC available from http://www.whatisfear.com/
You can see screenshots and videos of this upcoming game in my previous posts
http://www.spritesandbites.net/2009/01/07/more-fear-2-project-origin-screens
http://www.spritesandbites.net/2008/12/22/fear-2-screenshots/
I will be bringing a short review of the demos at the end of the week.
I unashamedly bought a new TV yesterday. It is the 40 inch Samsung LE40A557 from Comet £599. OhMyGoodNess it is an amazing television. I previously had a Polaroid 26 inch and this is better than that Tv by a country mile.
No longer do I have HDMI issues, the sound is better (not tinny) and of course with a contrast ratio of 30,000:1 it has much better blacks. There is one area that Polaroid beats this TV and that is the menus. On the Polaroid I could easily switch input sources between consoles and sky by pressing source and selecting the input I wanted. With the Samsung I can go from sky to ps3 or 360 in one button press as it detects the next HDMI source, but going back to sky I have to cycle through all the inputs to get back to sky and that is highly annoying. But I can live with that.
Right now to set up the Sky remote code. Press interactive on the sky remote and navigate through the options to customer services and choose to setup your remote control. Go down to Samsung but you will find this model not in the list. No problem, just select the closest match which is the LE40A566 – Sky code 0840
Then follow the on screen instructions to change the code. Voila! You can now control your TV volume etc with your Sky Remote.
I have confirmed this code works with Sky HD remote controls. I am unable to confirm it with other remotes.
Yes I am alive. I came back from my annual Christmas holiday and was immediately struck down by a horrible viral cold/flu-like illness or something which has had me bed ridden for 4 days. Yesterday I managed to scrape myself out of bed to get to the doctors to find I have a nasty chest infection and need antibiotics.
Now this “I am Alive” moment is not actually about my near-half-death-ness but it is about a new game on the horizon called “I Am Alive” and being developed by Ubisoft.
The official trailer reminds me of a series recently on UK television called Survivors where people were scrapping others for food and water.
This game may not see the light of day this year but I for one will be watching it closely. It may end up being another game I am watching for a long time with no solid release date, just like Alan Wake. The game will be released for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
My Dashboard has been telling me for a few weeks to upgrade but I kept putting it off out of laziness and that I was expecting it to be a few bug fixes here and there and I really had not the time to do it.
So today I decided to finally upgrade it and got the pleasant surprise that it is a whole new dashboard with some very useful new features.
Of note is the new Quickpress on the dashboard which is where you can type a quick post, add media and add tags. I am writing this post now using quickpress and while it is handy it does not have the option to place it in a category, I expect that will come in a future upgrade.
I like the new layout of the dashboard, everything is a lot cleaner and most things can be seen at a quick glance what you need. It is very well designed.
Congratulations to the development team on their hard work
Help yourself to these new screenshots just released for F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin. The game is still on course for a European release of 13th February 2009
