Compilation Titles on Blu Ray Gives Confusing Feedback on PS3

Sony has been under fire for a lot of things recently, from being careless because of the PSN and North Korean hack and their low reasons of not refunding and shutting down victims accounts when they get their credit cards charged after a hack to another account, for example.

Now you can add how they dis-manage their Blu Ray icons on compilation titles on the PlayStation 3 on the list. The PlayStation 3 has an operating system software which allows them to make use of the PlayStation itself.

With this, they really show off with the software can do. What usually makes sense is the fact that you pop in a disc and the PlayStation will show up, telling you if you inserted the type of disc, which it does well for two decades. You place a DVD in a PlayStation 2, the PlayStation 2 menu will display a DVD. A non-readable disc can be displayed telling the user that the disc can't be read too.

The confusion appears, when these compilation titles come out with more then one game or titles that have extras on them, that make use of the user interface however they mess up the entire layout by displaying two Blu Ray icons. They will make the system have two discs appear when I inserted one disc. Each icon is either the game or a sub-menu displaying the extras from the disc, which you may never see again, which is confusing and it messes up the presentation for their system.

They usually come from games that have extras boarded onto them, like multiple of games, because usually the developers aren't bothered about making the extra main menu screen for their games, polishing their own main menu. Instead, what I'm left with, is a system that looks and seems confused and I don't like that. Sony doesn't seem to care. I seriously think Sony should take more pride in how they communicate their Blu Rays on the PS3.

My Thoughts on Doodle Jump Adventures

Having played Doodle Jump Adventures for the 3DS which I got far enough to see the gameplay and stages this weekend. I was impressed with the way the game uses the motion sensors in the 3DS to move the character, named the Doodler in the game. Which first appeared on the iPhone and Android devices around 2009/10, the Doodler jumps in a series of vertical set stages by using platforms and must reach the top to complete each stage.

The game has ink drawing graphics laid out on grid like paper, hence it was towards the name Doodle Jump. The character must avoids, holes in the paper and enemies which prevent him from reaching the top.  The game doesn't get boring however! The game is split between 4 zones, these are named Classic, Ninja, Jungle and Space worlds, which offer different types of hazards and enemies and make the game alot more interesting to play and look at. It is a bit funny seeing the Doodle get hit by really clumsy looking creatures. The game is really challenging despite it's simple look.

The game is available on some handheld devices, the Nintendo DS and 3DS and there's even a reward redemption game found in the arcades, going to show that the creators really want to push this out to say this game has got alot to offer, which is why I give it a mention.

Vision GT is Coming Along Nicely!

Vision GT is coming along nicely! What started as a feature which no spaces, as a long line of vehicles where the player can view and purchase the Vision GT selection of cars. However there are clearly some surprises such as seeing Nike's vision vehicle to see what they have in mind and also Alfo Romeo have withdrew from Vision GT. There's alot more to see within Gran Turismo 6.

www.gov.uk Looks Like A Search Engine

The UK Government Website looking more like a search engine on it's own, except that it advertises all the services folks want to live their life. It's a bit scary. If anyone remembers the Yahoo Directories which were shut down last year, this website looks more like what Yahoo tired to offer and www.gov.uk isn't going to be gone for a long time.

I miss Yahoo's Directory's but to replace my memories with something like this gives me room to say to myself, I think I should move on and live my life a bit.

Nintendo Removing ROMs From Websites!

While the news of Nintendo taking revenue from Youtube partners who are making movies of Nintendo content using copyright laws present, the emulation community

For me, I have nothing to hide or haven't really done anything wrong but this still effects me because I contribute in gaming in various ways, however this move from Nintendo got me interested. I always buy my games and play them on the hardware that I always buy and talk about it.

ROMs and Emulators have been around for over two decades. It's been on the internet hosting various websites since I've started visiting the websites. It isn't just what going on at Youtube with Nintendo's way of having people share what they see in terms of content in there video games.

Nintendo is the first company (or from what I believe) to enforce a copyright notice against websites hosting ROM dumps from their video games. Here's a copyright notice from a website where the Nintendo list of games used to be.

It's clear Nintendo have a plan and are finding ways on removing content relating or extracted from any of their video games or games that run on their hardware anywhere on the Internet.

... and there's a webpage from Nintendo addressing the legality of ROM dumps from Nintendo hardware: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp

The next question is...are the other companies such as Sony, Sega and even SNK going to follow?

It's also worth mentioning Microsoft hasn't got any pirates against them who have dumped Microsoft console game data anywhere on the Internet because of the security placed in their game discs.

Blog Theme Change!

I've decided to change the blog color scheme from the Black dark feel to a more white feel with blue color to cover the font. I'm saving the dark feel for some other time. I'm going to put the dark feel in some the blog!

80s Cambridge and Their Computer Revolution

Today, I wanna talk about 80s Cambridge in England, not that I'm running out of website to review, there's loads of websites for me to review. I actually want to talk about one of the more interesting things I've gathered up and that's the computer think-tanks and manufacturing force from Cambridge during the 80s. I'll just type these bizarre and heavily focused articles once in a while.

Where did this start? I was doing research on computer hardware over the years and the Spectrum and Acorn Hardware popped up. I was reading their wiki pages and found they had something in common, they were based in Cambridge in some point.

Sinclair was actually founded in Cambridge however they relocated their headquarter into London. They still carry that really intellect experience with them into London. A nice trait of intelligence that it's can freely can be carried around.

Anyways, I don't know what happened to Acorn. Maybe after Microsoft offered their OS system, people went into Microsoft's way of getting a computer software along with hardware and Acorn were struggling to get into the market and it ended for them in the year 2000. That's competition I suppose. A bit depressing if anyone was a big fan of Acorn,because they were the leaders of computers during the 80s and early 90s. It's nice to knowthat the OS for the Acorn is still around, the RISC OS.

Sinclair's hardware on the other hand was a different story, they went out there to make a bike, which is bizarre and went out of the way to ditch the computer business. That's a story for another time. They later sold the Spectrum trademark to another person to continue and it lost it's value when computers and their software from the United Stated show off what can be done which out the ZX Spectrum to shame. More on this another time.

Cambridge do make video games but that's really all they can do now days. That's all I can say about it for now.

Now Cambridge still brags about how 'culture' their town is, a town that people don't want to live in, which has a population of 100,000, compared to many other cities around the UK, that has alot more.Some places London have loads more then that. I think Cambridge is over-hyped and show off and when they burn out, they know and it all becomes a con-game for them and it's certainly put me off using computers for a while with the amazing stuff they had at the time. I suppose I'll have to sort that out and think that out for some time.