The Hand Of Five things on a Friday.
May. 1st, 2015 11:04 am
1. Still awaiting blood test results from Ninewells, taking a while because they had to send stuff to Edinburgh for all the extra etsts they were running. Still feeling run down and awful most of the time.
2. Pinall - they released Avengers:Age Of Ultron and Star Wars:Rebels tables for Zen Pinball, both are great fun, especially the Rebels one. I also discovered another pinball app got an Android release, Zaccaria Pinball which has thirty of the Italian manufacturers tables from 1976 to 1987, that's a period of pinball I have a huge soft spot for so very happy with the app and the fact the full version worked out at under 50p a table.
Also very happy that next month's Pinball Arcade table is Xenon, which I've been hoping for since the game launched.
3. Goat Simulator is best simulator. What do you get when a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs create a game as a joke, with shonky physice, a daft Tony Hawk's Pro Skater style combo system and a goat? This wonderful game is what you get.
4. They updated XBox360s so you can plug in up to a 2Tb hard drive and store your downloaded games and stuff on it, which is brilliant since I kept having to clear space to download new stuff, especially with Game On Gold ranging anywhere from 8-25Gb of free games a month. Spent much of yesterday playing pinball and downloading/shufting stuff to the external drive. This was my one complaint about the 360, that at most I could have the 250Gb internal drive and a 32Gb external plugged in, which was nowhere near enough for all the shite I've bought and downloaded over the least eigh years plus.
5. Comic book artist Herb Trimpe died, not a name as well known as he perhaps shold be, he drew the first appearances of Wolverine and Captain Britain, he also drew several issue sof Spitfire & The Troubleshooters, one of the ill-fated New Universe titles from 1986 and all but one issue of Shogun Warriors, where the image at the top of this post comes from. He also drew one of the most awesome double page splashes in Marvel history, Godzilla Vs Marvel. http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/12/125833/2601475-godzilla_24_18_19.jpg