So, the dust has settled… show finished at 4am (UK time), up at 7, and now back with some thoughts on a show that could have been taken one of two ways. See more (including spoilers), after the cut! (more…)
Just days away now from WrestleMania, and things look set for WWE to have one of their most successful Manias in history. With several good matches on paper, this is also the first Mania in years that I’m looking forward to watching on TV.
The grand-daddy of them all, as it used to be called before it produced such offspring as Breaking Point and Bragging Rights, should easily live up to it’s brand name… and here are some of my picks. (more…)
As you’ll have noticed from the two WrestleMania memories columns I’ve penned so far, there are two omissions in the line-up. I was lucky enough to get to both WrestleMania 20 and 24, and here’s my brief memories from those shows live. Having experienced both shows by way of a WWE-made travel package, the experiences here aren’t probably the average fan’s views, but watching these shows live were definitely better than sitting at home and watching it on TV. (more…)
With WrestleMania a little under two weeks away… and my plans well and truly set for the big show, it’s time for the predictable set of brief ‘Mania articles. This one will be the first of two posts about my general memories, followed by a piece on my live WrestleMania experiences, and finally my predictions.
This year will be the first time since 2008 that I’ve not done a preview “show” for WrestleMania, following the live 2008 show from Florida, and last year’s preview with Colin Vassallo live from Houston. Of course I miss doing those shows, but I know that Adam will have the best seat in the house come March 28. (more…)
When Nintendo launched the Wii back in 2006, it was the latest innovation in a console war that lately had just consisted of ever improving graphics. Instead of controlling games by pressing buttons on a pad, games could now be controlled by moving a remote control around in the air. Yeah, to someone who isn’t a fan of video games, it sounded dumb, but it turned out to be one of the biggest attractions for casual gamers in years. (more…)
Okay, time to try again! At the weekend I tried to write a tutorial on how to use Calibre to convert files for your eReader, but that kinda hit the skids for a while. Then last night, I had this big post on the iPad typed up, only for the post to disappear when I tried to edit it via the WordPress app.
Anyway, the iPad is out in about a month, and after all of the hype, I’m still struggling to work out what it’s all for.
Apple fanboys should look away now! And this is not aimed at anyone in particular, rather a slice of the market. (more…)
At time of writing, we are five days away from the start of the new “Monday Night Wars” in the wrestling world. From September 1995 to March 2001, (almost) every Monday night saw wrestling fans flick between USA/TNN/Spike and TNT as the WWE’s Monday Night Raw fought it out with WCW’s Monday Nitro. We all know how that ended – and almost nine years on, the wars return, as TNA moves Impact to Monday nights, head to head with Raw.
First things first – this ain’t the late 90s. Raw is a shell of its former self in terms of ratings, drawing a little over half of what it did back in the glory days of the Wars, while TNA has yet to crack a rating that comes anywhere close to what Nitro was doing during its dying days. So how on earth can this end well for TNA? (more…)
It’s quite apt for the first iPhone app review on this site to be for the newly-launched Sunderland AFC app…
Launched today at the (quite expensive for an app) price of £2.99, it would be unfair to say that this is a straight facsimile of the club’s official website.
Granted, it does give you access to the latest news stories, match updates and other content that you can get for free from the website, but it provides it in a neat layout that doesn’t require you to have to wait for all of the adverts that usually clog up the website (at least, when you’re not in a strong 3G area!) (more…)
Well, I guess it really was the leap year bug – I turned my PS3 on half an hour ago, only to be told it was March 1, 2010… confirmation, if you needed it, that this whole charade was down to the console taking March 1, 2010 (in reality) as February 29, 2010.
Still, the wrong date thing is nothing a quick visit to the settings menu can’t fix, but I’ll be wondering if Sony’ll be able to avoid a repeat in 2014 without having to have everyone buy new machines.
Anyway, no damage has been done to my PS3. If only I’d managed to grab the right episode of Kitchen Nightmares – instead of an unaired repeat from season 2 that’s somehow managed to sneak into the lineup as a “new” episode!
Coming soon… random iPhone app reviews, sports talk (are Sunderland doomed?), something from the past, and perhaps some random game reviews…
