No Formal Training

 Hitman 3 - Year Announced, What Might We Expect? IOI have not been one to rest on their laurels with the current Hitman trilogy, with an announcement made earlier this month that briefly highlighted some of their plans for the second year of everyone's favourite bald hired killer latest adventures. Not that this gave too much away of what was to come, but this announcement was perhaps to be expected as IOI made it clear that Hitman 3 is a platform, allowing you to continue playing levels from the first two games in this trilogy with all progress saved, must like you could do with Hitman 1 levels when Hitman 2 came out. The platform idea makes even more sense when you consider that Hitman 1 was sometimes referred to as Hitman Season 1. However, the release of Hitman 3 did cause some concern once the release date got closer as IOI backpedalled somewhat on this as far as the PC version, now an Epic Games store exclusive, was not going to allow PC players who had bought the first two

 What could an LA Noire sequel look like? LA Noire made a bit of a impressive impact when it was realised and fans of the game have been clamouring for a sequel pretty much since they finished it. Sadly, while rumours have persisted over the years of a possible follow up, much like sequels to Bully nothing has ever materialised, and as of time of publishing, nothing has been heard of to suggest such a sequel would be made. Following the story of disgraced World War II veteran turned Police Detective Cole Phelps, the game managed to merge themes and elements from detective serials, the Noire movie genre and all the trimmings of sex, greed and corruption, into an open world game  But what would a sequel need in order to work? 1. A better game engine. One of LA Noires many flaws was it's engine, a pure jack of all trades that worked well in some regards and in others were adequate, but barely. A look behind the scenes makes it clear how ambitious the project was, but was also mixed wi

Where does the Ruth Doctor fit into the Regenerations? Jodie Whittaker's last season as the Doctor brought back a very welcome element of the classic series, a true serial approach to the storylines with a good old cliff-hanger ending to tease people to watch the following episode. Something not seen since the very last serial of the Sylvester McCoy years, back at the end of the classic series run in the 1980s. Episode three also brought back the unexcepted but very welcome return of Jo Martin, as the mysterious Ruth Doctor, the Doctor we currently have no idea where she fits into with the chronology of the shows rather complex history. Her arrival in the middle of the six part Flux series, came much to my surprise at least (and a lot of the fandom in general it seemed) in chapter three. At the very least via flashbacks as Jodie Whitakers 13th incarnation of The Doctor experienced lost memories as this earlier incarnation as she took on Swarm and Azure, the main villains of the cur

Star Trek vs Star Wars. The 2021 foreword, so this is one of the earliest, not so crossy crossovers I wrote way back in 1997. Much to my own surprise when I looked back over this while transferring it to the blog (much later than I had intended) I'd found I'd already done a foreword kinda thing for it already, so I did think, maybe I don't need to do a foreword for this one? But obviously I decided, what the hell, lets do it. I have actually gone and made some minor edits to remove contact details that are no longer valid, but as of this moment, I've not corrected any spelling errors. But I do find it odd that there were any left, after all, I'm pretty sure the word processer I was using back then DID pick up on them and helped me sort them out back then, but here I am, looking at typos. Oh well. I suppose it's part of the nostalgic fun of this. Maybe the spell check gave up and just "added" my errors to it's list of words? On another note I ma

Medieval Flails Building on the "nunchucks are stupid" this week I take a look at the "Medieval Flail", a weapon that has seen some controversy regarding it's historical accuracy, with some convinced it's nothing more than a Victorian fallacy, with the aim to "sex up" the Medieval ages with a strange and unusual weapon. Essentially taking the premise of the mace, but separating the striking head from the shaft by way of a chain, this certainly looks a daunting weapon to be facing off against. While there is some examples of it being used in history in the late medieval period, with some artwork showing it's usage from around the end of the medieval period and the start of the early Renascence, there's little in the way of written accounts from the time, or surviving artefacts that haven't later been proven to be from later periods. Even the accuracy of the artwork has been called into question as the depictions don't tend to sh

Sega to reenter the home console market with a 128bit wonder machine! EXCLUSIVE! Once upon a time Sega was one of the big boys in the home console market, competing with Nintendo for market dominance back in the console wars of the 90s and achieving a great deal of success in the Western world with the 16 bit Megadrive or Genesis and a spiky blue hedgehog mascot. Sadly after the relative flops of their follow up machines, the 32X add on for their successful 16bit console, and the successive failures of the 32bit Saturn and the Dreamcast, a machine even Sega weren’t quite sure what kind of processors it really had, Sega’s fortunes went downhill and they quite wisely decided to bow out of the home market and stick to the arcades, while developing games for the systems of their former rivals. For years Sega fanboys had waited, holding their breath and lighting and relighting and even replacing completely spent candles while holding vigil for the return of the Blue Spiky Speedster on a Seg

Greetings I Am Not Shad, A Reply To A " NunChucks Are Stupid" Video Well, I thought I'd throw my weight and two pennies into the mix on this. I had a feeling Shad of Shadiversity would get a few, interesting, comments in his comment section after making his nunchucks video, there's even been some response which I will link to below my own video, which you can click on to view right below this line of wonderfully written text. My own background in Marital Arts is that I am a former second dan in Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial art noted more for it's use of kicks, kicks of all heights, spins, jumps and yes flying kicks. We did also practise with various weapons including the nunchuck, I didn't cover any of this in the video because that would be too much of a deviation from the point of the discussion. When it came time to learn the nunchuck, I was a bit dubious about it, and there were some accidents where I hit myself with it while getting to grips with