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Let’s start off by giving my opinions on the long awaited, over hyped console, the Wii U.

As one of the many people who are looking forward the deployment of this amazing product, I must say it was a great bit of kit. The streaming of the game on the pad is a little blurry but the graphics on-screen is a touch better than its predecessor but this is my judgement when playing New Super Mario Bros. U so this is not my final conclusion to the console generally.

Speaking of New Super Mario Bros. U, this game is all you can expect. It brings the same concepts from all the previous games. From the demos provided, I didn’t find anything new! All I did was speed run through it all! 😀

Onto the Nintendoland, it was nice to have the pad giving the capability to swipe stars to the other screen. Aiming the pad to the screen created a cursor allowing me to see my current position of the pad. My arm did ache after several swipes but it was sensitive so it was satisfactory…

Now lets move onto the famous ZombiU. 

This game was incredible. I say incredible because of the functionality but visually, I’d say it was a disappointment. Maybe it was due to the fact of me having high expectations but it felt to me like I was playing on the Wii again.








For functionality, you get the experience with two screens; inventory on the pad and a visual of the character checking in their bag. If a zombie comes during that point, you will see them on the screen and will have to exit the inventory screen to take him down! That is realistic don’t ya think?! 🙂

Overall? 

As a whole, I think Nintendo have truly outdone themselves once again however, I do have my doubts and probably end up not purchasing it due to past experience. When I buy a console too early, the games are not fully developed to its full potential so I will wait until Nintendo or any other third party games sweeps me off my feet!

Other than that, if you have the money and you don’t mind which games are out, then go purchase it on the first day it releases and support Nintendo! They continuously keep impressing me with their products!

From that note, I’ll leave it there.

Next blog: Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell, and a few other games!

GameFEST in Birmingham was amazing. And with that being said, so was Super Mario Kart 7!

At this booth, they only allowed the players to play 3 circuits which were definitely not enough but enough to talk about.

This game is a new level from the last Mario kart 7. In the beginning, the player gets to choose big or small wheels, change the frame of the kart and the new glider! During the race, you begin driving and everything is more or less the same however, when the kart lifts from the ground, a glider appears on top of the kart and it allows you to glide in the air. Using up and down, you can either dive back to the ground or stay in the air for as long as you can. Also, you can collect coins which I’m not too sure what that is about yet but I’m assuming it is exactly the same as what it does for the SNES version. In addition, you get to drive underwater with propellers that pop out!

Amazing game and I do wish the demo at the booth gave us more to play. I enjoyed this game so much, I had to play through the demo TWICE!

A game definitely to buy on the day of release (December).

At the GameFEST, hosted a few weeks ago at Birmingham, one of the games that was on top of my list was seeing Mario on the 3D platform, Nintendo 3DS.

This version of Mario was a mixture of ‘New Super Mario Bros’ and ‘Super Mario 64’ with the one feature from the classic ‘Super Mario Bros 3’ on the NES.

GameFEST gave me 4 options to play and luckily, I got to play all of them. The visuals are done very well. The gameplay, especially when the 3D is turned on, was an unforgettable experience…

The racoon suit was great to play with but nothing new; just the Mario being able to stay in the air for those extra seconds and whacking enemies with it makes it all worth a while.

At the end of the day, the game is definitely great for those who haven’t played a Mario game EVER however, people who have played and followed the Mario series, don’t expect a major change still a game on top of my list though!

Overall, great game and will get it on the day of release (November 13th).

It is the release day for StarFox on the Nintendo 3DS.

The amazing remake of the classic Nintendo 64 game looks absolutely amazing and although I have completed this game approximately a hundred times, I am still going to head out and buy this game!

To top it all off, it allows online multiplayer and while the player is in battle with another, you can also see the other person’s face expressions on the other side. Though I imagine that when they lose, all you’ll see is the other person cursing…

Check out the Amazon link!

P.S. “Do a barrel roll!”

Hello all,

It is coming to the end of the month and with that being said, our MEGABLAST iPhone app is now a FREE APP!

For those of you who haven’t heard of such a game, it is a retro/comical theme where a ship needs to shoot the balls that are coming at it. As simple as it sounds, there are asteroids and the death ball aiming to stop you from shooting these colourful spheres.

Not only this, it allows players to play up to 3 modes: Sprint, Arcade and Dodge!

The game consists of great graphics with up to 6 amazing levels. Connected to Apple’s Game Center so you can compete with others from around the world as well as receive achievements.

I’ve played this game so many times since I tested this game and let me say it is difficult to grasp at first but once you get used to it, it slowly becomes very addictive.

Thanks for reading and give it a try. Here is the link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/megablast/id447440017?ls=1&mt=8

I was on the train with my iPhone and I bought a game called “Stylish Sprint” a while ago for 69p and thought I’d share my views about it.

This game is like “Dino Rush” but a better version! It is a 3D stick man where he runs through certain stages encountering many obstacles by jumping, dodging, punching and flying in many of the amazing visually graphical worlds.

The tutorial was great! It was easy since they give you a couple of scenarios to get the hang of the buttons…

They offer two types of modes: DASH and CHALLENGE.

In Dash, you run through and go through a bunch of obstacles. It starts off with slow running but as you go further, the faster he begins to run. You also spot some items along the way; wings, parachute, speed up and a few others. There are also some items that will try to bring you down.
The objective is to complete the quests that are given to you so you can unlock more stages.

Challenge is a whole new approach. The first one is where you dodge a pack of mines that are coming right at you and the stick man is on a hover board and he can move 3 spaces: Left, Right or Center. Obviously if you get hit, then you blow up and it ends the challenge.
The second challenge is where the stick man needs to run around and dodge some bouncing mines that rebounds off the walls. The game keeps going until you get hit by the mine.

My view is that the game is very addictive and completely suitable when you need a quick 3 minute break or heading down the underground. Can be so addictive that you can even miss your stop.
The graphics are great and can easily say it was completely worth 69p.

If you have the money to spare, try it!
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/stylish-sprint/id390141259?mt=8

Hello all,

The other day, I stumbled upon this tool where you can develop mobile apps in C++ and port it across iPhone, Android, Nokia and a few others. Not only this, you can develop on Windows or MAC!

If you’re interested in this, it is called MARMALADE (http://www.madewithmarmalade.com).

I tried this out and honestly, it is very well done! I spent about a few months just developing a few apps and here are my thoughts when using this tool:

Although I did not know much C++, all it required was a bit of knowledge in Programming generally. They provide a lot of preset code where you can input easily. The community on the website are very friendly and welcomes newbies.

One down side is that before, they allowed developers to release apps for free on the iPhone but now they require a payment. That was a big let down but they do allow users a 30 day trial period. Also, if you are developing on a Windows platform, you will require the MAC only to submit the app to the App Store.

Overall, I must say if you want to develop apps, this tool is a great one and pretty easy to use. Porting the app is just a few clicks of tick boxes!

Hope this post is useful for anyone…

This is the first time blogging in any blogs generally so for starters, I’d like to introduce myself and tell you about who I am and what I will be writing about in my blogs.

Firstly, I am a developer for a company called MamaGaming http://www.mamagaming.com. I’ve developed the entire backend and part of the frontend for the website and I keep up to date with it. Also, I have developed some iPhone games (2 free and 1 paid app) so check out the iPhone section on the website if you’re interested in my work http://www.mamagaming.com/mobileapps.

I want to blog as much as I can so that being said, I want to write about software, games, my programming adventures and technology.

Again, I am new to this so if there is any advice or anything, just message me because I would like to know more about this website.

Thanks for reading this post and I look forward to writing more posts in the future!