Campfire Legends - The Hookman: Escape the Hookman - if you can!

Campfire Legends – The Hookman (131 MB download)
Uncover the story-behind-the-story from one of the scariest tales ever in Campfire Legends – The Hookman, a hidden object adventure of darkness, shadows and frights! Walk in Christine’s footsteps as her plans for a romantic getaway turn into a frightful night of finding lost items, discovering mysterious clues, and escaping alive. Only with nerves of steel and a clear mind can you find life-saving objects and solve challenging puzzles. Can you escape The Hookman?

Kelly Green: Cultivate a buzzing organic nursery!

Kelly Green (66 MB download)
City gal Kelly has abandoned the concrete jungle for a budding organic nursery in Kelly Green Garden Queen. Play as Kelly while her hippie brother and other quirky relatives pitch in to help in the garden. Arrange floral bouquets with your own creative flair, calm impatient customers with lemonade, or wow the local farmer with an array of 20 different plants. Do you have what it takes to expand the nursery from a few pots to a large and thriving oasis?

1989: Google Images

I Googled my year of birth and here’s a nice selection of the images I got:

Lunar Planetary Institute Summer Intern Alumni, 1989

1989 Chevrolet Camaro

Sky News in 1989

Some bloke, in the computer room at Bournemouth Borough Council, 1989.

Berlin Wall, 1989

Scene from Bollywood film, "Ram Lakhan" released in 1989

Nintendo 'Game Boy', 1989

It’s not that long ago but the pictures do look rather old fashioned, I’d be interested to see other people’s year of birth in Google image results.

TanukeMedia presents - The Theater

Happy Halloween everyone! As a gift for everyone who’s supported us over this first shaky year, we present Tanuke’s first TF game, The Theater.

In this adventure game, you play a young teen on Halloween night who must save his friends who have been taken over by cursed costumes, or be trapped forever in the body of a dim-witted monster. There are multiple endings, including a special epilogue awarded for finding all the hidden items in the game.

If you enjoy the game, please consider donating to Tanuke so we can continue to provide you with games, videos, and podcasts. Thank you all for your support!

Henrietta Game: The Academy 26/10/09

First photo post will be about Henrietta Game, a band nice enough to have employed me twice at this stage. The band were kind enough to hire me to take photos of them the night they were supporting Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac fame. While I wasn’t allowed take any photographs of Peter himself I did have great fun at the gig taking pictures of the band.

PSP Car Games Comparison

After the recent release of a few driving games on the PSP I thought it might be worth taking a look at them across various sections so that people looking to buy can make a more informed choice.

For full reviews of each see the links below:

MOTORSTORM: ARCTIC EDGE

GRAN TURISMO

DIRT 2

So here we go…

GRAPHICS

Obviously a big part of any gaming experience but boy do people love cars that look good

Dirt 2 is the least prettiest of the three with Motorstorm’s slightly cartoonish style in second place. Gran Turismo takes the chequered flag in this department, with some lush visuals although the odd screen tear stops it getting a perfect 10.

Motorstorm 8

Gran Turismo 9

Dirt 2 6

 

Dirt 2: “The least prettiest of the three…”

 

HANDLING

How your car handles is obviously an important part of any driving game and these titles are no different.

Motorstorm’s use of boost is well implemented and you only ever feel out of control via your own mistakes.

Gran Turismo’s handling is lifelike and if you try to drive like a maniac you will up in the wall before long.

Dirt 2 isn’t too bad in this respect but at times it’s difficult to tell whether the game is keeping tabs on things like grip etc as it’s often possible to just hold down accelerate and take turns.

Motorstorm 8

Gran Turismo 9

Dirt 2 7

 

GAME MODES

No doubt about the winner here – Motorstorm has a fabulous single player campaign of ranking up and tackling different events in different vehicles.

Gran Turismo doesn’t have much in the way of modes for single player, it’s just race where you want to and while Dirt 2 does have a World Tour mode it’s pretty limited and doesn’t have much to keep you coming back.

Motorstorm 9

Gran Turismo 7

Dirt 2 7

 

Motorstorm: “Has a fabulous single player campaign.”

 

MUSIC

Again Motorstorm takes this hands down – some great tracks on there including the anthem ‘Omen’ by The Prodigy. Good use of music.

Well the other two games are much of a muchness – not a great deal of music, surely they could’ve squeezed some more tunes in there?

Motorstorm 9

Gran Turismo 7

Dirt 2 8

 

CAR SOUNDS

Gran Turismo wins out in the engine stakes – you really can hear the difference in vehicles, even when the cars are similar.

More impressive than Motorstorm because Motorstorm’s engine sounds only vary between different types of vehicles. (i.e cars and trucks)

And sadly Dirt 2’s engines sound the same regardless of what you’re driving.

Motorstorm 8

Gran Turismo 9

Dirt 2 6

 

Gran Turismo:”You really can hear the difference in vehicles.”

 

TRACK SELECTION

Moving onto the available tracks and Gran Turismo roars into the lead – yes you race each course backwards and forwards but even so there are still a huge amount of tracks to race on.

Motorstorm also has quite a selection and also gets a bonus for mutliple routes through each track.

Dirt 2 lags behind again – boasting in the region of around 8 tracks.

Motorstorm 8

Gran Turismo 9

Dirt 2 6

 

 

VEHICLE SELECTION

You can’t argue with 800 cars. Gran Turismo is the undisputed king in this round, regardless of the fact some are just different models of the same car.

One of the main points of Motorstorm is to race different types of vehicles against each other so it wouldn’t be much of a game without a decent selection of vehicles. New snow based vehicles have been added to the usual Motorstorm suspects.

Dirt 2 doesn’t deliver massively on the vehicle front but there is probably just about enough to keep you going.

Motorstorm 8

Gran Turismo 9

Dirt 2 7

Gran Turismo: trumps Motorstorm right at the end.

OVERALL

Motorstorm 58 / 70

Gran Turismo 59 / 70

Dirt 2 47 / 70

It’s a very close race between the front two but Dirt 2 is way back in last place.

Gran Turismo trumps Motorstorm right at the end based on Vehicle and Track selection.

My advice would be simply – if you can’t afford both then go with Motorstorm for mindless fun or Gran Turismo for a slightly harder but more rewarding driving experience.

Halloween Party Cheats

Candy Hunt:

Step 1:  You can find the Chocolate Bar at the Ski Lodge  Attic

Step 2:

You can find the Candy Corn at the Dock

Step 3:You can find the Sucker at the Pet Shop

Step 4: You can find the Wrapped Candy at the Cove

Step 5: You can find the Pumpkin at the Pool

Step 6:

You can find the Caramel at the Soccer Pitch

Step 7: You can find the “Tootsie Roll” at the Mine

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