akamike (2007-2010)

Gaming

Finding the Best Gaming Deals

Being a gamer can be quite a pricey lifestyle if you are always buying the latest and greatest games. £40-£50 on new releases will quickly burn a hole in your pocket, but it doesn't have to be that way. I...

I Bought a DS!

On Thursday, after work, I met up with Sash to travel back home together. On impulse, we stopped by GAME and picked up a White DS Lite and Pokemon Diamond. Finally, a new toy to play with!...

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Teaser Trailer

At last we have a teaser trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2! After playing the excellent original on the PS2 I have been waiting for the sequel to surface. As Xbox 360 Fanboy reports, a teaser trailer has been...

CoD4 Respawn = Crap

For x-mas last year I received Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360, and since then I have completely the game several times over, gotten all the achievements and I am now playing through prestige mode in multiplayer. I...

Mini-Reviews of My Christmas Games

For Christmas, my lovely girlfriend bought me three excellent games for my Xbox 360. Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed and Crackdown are all I have been playing since Christmas, doing pretty much everything I can (getting achievements)! In the...

How to Kill A Brand

I know I try to avoid doing video and image posts, but this is just too good to leave out. The guys over at Sarcastic Gamer have released another video, "How to Kill A Brand", a satire of Sony and...

Xbox 360 Achievements

The 360 has a system know as Gamerscore, a count of the points you have amassed from playing games. Each retail game has at least 1000 possible points, which are assigned by completing achievements, ranging from "Complete on Hard Mode"...

World of Warcraft Expansion Rant

Blizzard announced Wrath of the Lich King and as a casual WoW player I thought I would share my thoughts on both expansions....

Werewolf - Join the hunt

Trihan, over at GamingW, scripted an IRC bot for the text game Werewolf. If you already have a client, jump over to irc.whahay.net and join #werewolf (or even stop by #akamike). We also have a special day on Wednesday (20/06/07),...

Pacman's Skull

So several blogs have posted about this already, but I thought I'd share it here as well! Created by Le Gentil Garcon, along with Francois Escuilie in 2002 (Why is this only surfacing now?), it's pretty much a study of...

Game Prototyping Tiles

Lost Garden via Kotaku "These are Lowest Common Denominator graphics. I put the challenge to myself: "What is a graphical style that is attractive, but are useful to both the widest range of developers and game genres?" Here's what I...

Gaming Parents

I was going through some digg posts that I bookmarked to check later, and I came across one about "The Impact of Being a Gaming Parent". As politicians, reglious groups and even a few crackpots have pushed the idea of...