Monster Monkeys

Check out this new dev studio. Made up of caffiene fueled code monkeys. New app coming this week. Follow them on Twitter , Google+ and Facebook.

Here's our interview with Monster Monkeys coder Emyr.

So what's is the app your developing?
It's a quiz app for the Android operating system.

What kind of quiz is it?
It will be a multiple choice quiz with questions covering a wide range of questions.

So who are you aiming it at?
 Mainly teenagers. Due to the fact that it will be played on Android smartphones, we can assume that most of out users will be fairly young.

When can we expect that to be released?
Within the next week. Keep an eye on our social pages.

Where can we download it?
We will have an official website up soon. It will be open for download from the webpage as soon as it's done.

One last question, why Monster Monkeys?
Partly inspired by the Jonathan Coulton song Code Monkey and partly beacause without Monster Energy I couldn't do the work I do.

Well, That's It

My PS3 is beyond repair. Now just to sell it for parts. Gonna sell a lot of games as well. No point keeping hold of them now. I'm thinking of selling:

• Assassin's Creed
• Assassin's Creed 2
• Battlefield Bad Company
• Burnout Paradise
• Buzz: Quiz TV
• Dirt 2
• Final Fantasy 13
• Madden 10
• NFS Shift
• Skate
• Skate 2
• GRAW 2
• Rainbow Six Vegas
• Rainbow Six Vegas 2
• Turok
• UFC 2009

Still Waiting

I cannot believe that LA Noire is still not here. I'm avoiding every article on the internet. It's now 3 days late. I'm feeling severely let down right now. Dirt 3 will probably turn up first.

Fetch Me My Rifle

It's been a long weekend. I am now trying to complete my Welsh Bacc (that's right complete). But I am coming across some problems. I have just one question, who formatted these booklets. I want to hunt them down and highlight their face. At random points across the documents, certain sections are highlighted, italic, bold, smaller, a different font, centre aligned, or all of the above. How do you format empty writing sections accidentally? So I have concluded, that due to the fact you would have to be missing you brain to do it accidentally, it must have been done on purpose. So fetch me my rifle, it's time to go hunting.

Bored, Bored, Bored...

I'm STILL waiting for LA Noire. Despite pre-ordering a month in advance, the game has still not arrived yet. Plus, Dirt 3 has yet to be dispatched. So not much chance of getting that on release either. I've got no choice but to wait. It's not as if getting it in store is any better, most stores still want a deposit and don't have pre-order bonuses and you still have to get there and hope they have stock.

Explain

Sorry the pic is so small. It's a thumbnail.

Commemorate The Longest Holiday Ever

I'm not sure if anyone remembers, but on my old blog I posted a wallpaper commemorating the last PS3 down time. A strange fault with the clock code caused all old PS3s to not work for a day. Well, now the PSN is back online, I have created a new wallpaper. Feel free to click it for the full size wallpaper. Trust me, it looks better at full size.

Here's the old one if you're interested

Please let me know what you think in the comments. All positive comments and suggestions appreciated

A Salute To The Silent Stranger On The Street

I went to town today to get some new shoes. While walking back past JJB, I came across a pedestrian diversion. While work is being done, there is a narrowed lane to walk down. It is about wide enough for five people.

Well this is where my point begins. Walking the other way was a morbidly obese chav and her mates in a row. I was walking towards them behind a guy. The guy in front of me tucked as close to the side as he could to make it past the walking Adidas road block. As he passed them, the larger one swung her arms in an over extravagant fashion while telling some pathetic story. In the process, she slammed her oversized bag into the guy who was trying to pass.

Now what do you think is the appropriate response here? When I knock people, I tend to apologise. Apparently I am wrong about social convention. The chav started screaming violent obscenities. The guy just dipped his head and moved on. I know that if I was hit, I would have screamed back. So that's why I salute the silent stranger on the street, for extreme patience and staying calm; when I wouldn't.

Gimme A Break

UPDATE: Amazon have dispatched a replacement PS3 and upgraded the delivery to first class for free.

I still haven't found a repair shop yet. To make things worse, my new PS3 arrived today. I found it around the side of my house, thrown over a 7 ft fence, onto solid concrete. Safe to say, it's making a weird noise and now I have to wait for a replacement. What kind of courier service throws £200 equipment around like that?

Keeping You Up To Date

Just bought a 320Gb PS3 slim with free LBP2 for £230. Also picked up 3 year warranty for £45 and a Dualshock 3 for £27. Now I'm going to fix my old PS3, transfer the data and sell the old PS3, my 2 Sixaxis controllers and a brand new LBP2. Let me know if you're interested in any of these, or know where I can get the old PS3 repaired.