For some reason, about a month ago, I nominated myself to run an all-day workshop for an organisation that has a partnership with the company I work for.  I can’t quite recall why I thought this was a good idea.  I’ve never done anything like this before and now its a day away and I’m a little nervous about it.  ...

In space, no one can hear you scream

Jen gave me an early birthday present this year:  an HD video camera.  She’s pretty awesome like that. It must drive her nuts because I only bought a video camera three years ago and I barely used it.  All the videos I’ve taken over the last couple of years have been using the video recording function on my digital camera.  ...

Jen came down to visit me in Sydney on Friday.  She just left to catch her flight a couple of hours ago 🙁 It was great to have some company on the weekend and we took the time together to wander around and eat at some of the city’s many cafes and restaurants.  After a weekend of seafood platters, Belgian ...

Platform:  Nintendo Wii Developer:  Nintendo In the context of contemporary Nintendo’s gaming philosophy of bringing gaming to the masses through accessibility, I don’t quite understand how this game came to be. Ostensibly a series of musical mini-games that are based around timing and ‘Simon-says’ repetition challenges, Rhythm Heaven has a charming presentation style and after the first two mini-games ‘Built ...

Platform:  Xbox 360 Developer:  Popcap Games Publisher:  Microsoft Game Studios I’d like to think that years from now, future game developers will study Peggle as an example of just how much positive re-enforcement can help a game.  Peggle‘s central conceit is very basic: aim and fire a ball at a series of coloured pegs.  As a foundation for a puzzle ...

5 second review: It takes 5 seconds to learn how to play Flight Control and it also takes this long to describe its awesomeness.

MICHAEL Jackson, 50, has suffered a heart attack and died, gossip website TMZ reports. Paramedics were unable to revive him. TMZ were told: “when paramedics arrived, Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.” Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

Here is how I imagine the conversation between Michael Bay and the studio-executive who greenlighted the ‘eagerly awaited’ sequel to the transformers movie went: Studio Exec: Michael, Transformers was a financial collosus, congratulations.. What other projects do you have in the pipeline? Bay: Well I have been thinking long and hard about this, what if we make another transformers movie? ...

I think we’re all enjoying the benefits of introducing Word Press to The FAT Website.  The site looks like a million bucks and its a lot easier to use. Something else we’ve also added to TFW is Google Analytics so we can see who visits our site and how they found us.  I’ll do a monthly blog entry going over ...