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By Thistle, on October 28th, 2009 Rogue Trader is a standalone follow-up to the excellent but ‘rules heavy’ tabletop RPG Dark Heresy. This time round players are invited to take the part of interstellar traders, though not in the manner of a ‘rules light’ space adventure system like Traveller.
There’s no scraping together the money for a [...]
By Thistle, on October 21st, 2009 We’ve a couple of quick suggestions for Halloween. Our 9-year-old Free Realms playtester has continued to enjoy Sony’s online RPG and some extra content has arrived. There’s a new football/ soccer minigame, which is good fun. There’s also a Halloween season ‘makeover’ that lets players collect ‘trick or treat’ sweets and items, which [...]
By Thistle, on October 14th, 2009
Parkour, free running and tricking are urban sports involving treating our city landscapes as open-ended obstacle courses. These intensely athletic, skillful and, at times, extreme sports have gained publicity as a result of their use in numerous movies and ads. Examples include Casino Royale (2006), the Bourne series and, most [...]
By Thistle, on October 10th, 2009 The Big Draw is a UK wide ‘arts workshop’ that runs in October every year. Libraries, museums, schools and many other organisations run hundreds of drawing and sketching events for kids and adults. The range of activities is remarkable and the Big Draw has become a huge success over the years.
By Thistle, on October 2nd, 2009 The release of Windows 7 and the new Intel Core i5 chips brings some major changes to the PC market. Related developments include a new range of AMD graphics cards designed to be compatible with Windows 7′s DirectX 11.
For business PCs the 4Gb memory limit on 32-bit systems is unnecessarily [...]
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