Evening all!

I love making banners, and i have some great idea's kicking about the place, my latest one is the bionic commando inspired one i am currently using on my profile and let me know what you think of it :) (i love the colour of red i managed to find lol) and i have also made another one today for any die-hard mario fan out there:

(please note it is scaled down to fit on page) The super mario bros. logo can be replaced with your username. Since i also have a stupid amount of spare time please feel free to request a banner i really do not mind.. i also still have a few laying about that i have not hosted yet (Devil may cry, Metal Gear Solid) cheers for reading :)

Well recently i have found myself on a bit of a nostalgia trip and have purchased Bionic Commando for the PS3 and i must say that even though this is just a prettier version of a much older game there is definately a lot of fun to be had. It shows its age in things such as no jump button and also only being able to shoot straight (and not up etc.) but to be honest if your as old as me you have plenty of experience in these sorts of games and will happily blast your way through the fairly difficult campaign or even team up with a buddy and work through it that way. I will say though that if you are not old enough to remember the joys of the snes then this will not appeal to you that much, for everyone else it will be a blast!

And the force unleashed demo. Solely down to the recognition of Missmorphine is downloaded this last night and it is truly great fun. My initial worry is that it is a movie tie-in and i have never found a star wars game to be overly great, but after playing through the demo and watching the aftermath FMV i may just purchase this come september 19th, thanks very much for bringing this one to my attention Missmorphine :)

A final note that i feel i need to address is this whole UK vs. America thing that spawned somehow miraculously out of a topic about Resident Evil, please guys this is a gaming site politics should not come into this can we all just settle our differences and act like adults, no country is greater than any other and if you feel that yours is then thats great and very patriotic but please keep it to yourself so that nobody gets affended; I don't like having to be a peacemaker but when my first friend on this site got his account suspended i thought enough is enough. Thanks well in advance and i love you all! (P.S. any attempt to try and get me into any silly debates revolving around this topic by comments left on this blog will not be met with a reponse, lifes too short for that)

Well this is a little weird, me (as in Hellboy) is finally going to watch Hellboy up on the big screen tonight (UK... we get everything later!) so not much activity tonight, Akayy if you haven't noticed the shiny new message this is a reminder that your banner has been done and i hope you like it, but anyways see you tomorrow you crazy kids!

Thanks for reading :)

Apologise Nicholai but i really cannot be bothered to go into detail about games tonight as i am a little bit annoyed with work etc, so you all get to learn a little about me too:

1. I am only 5ft 5 (so Nicholai i am not much better off than you lol)

2. I used to be obese until i turned 18 and decided to drop 6 stone

3. I'm a very loving guy, and have a thing for Brunettes and also blue eyes.

4. I received the national school award for achievement in Film directing at the age of 18, the first person to win that title in Kent

5. I have a thing for mini coopers, my current car is a dark purple mini cooper new shape

6. before i even made it to one year old i suffered and survived pheumonia twice (because i'm hard)

7. My favourite place in the world is New York

8. my full name is Michael Leonard George Steven Mulock, don't ask me why i have so many middle names.

9. Spider's do not bother me... snakes do!!!!!

10. When i was in primary school i was told i had major learning difficulties and would always need to have special needs, after 1 year of special needs i decided to skip them, and went on to get full GCSE's, A-levels and a degree in film directing - don't ever let anybody tell you you can't do something!

and one extra

11. I am not really hellboy... sorry kids, lol

It is true in the industry that it appears very difficult to make a great video game spawned from a movie, equally it seems to be just as hard to make a great movie spawned from a video game as well, lets revisit all those films we was hoping to break the mould and truly deliver something worth watching. The only way to do this would be to start back at the beginning, and trust me I have seen everyone of these ashamed as I am to say.

TRON (1982):

A movie that not many people went to see, but now has a cult status, yes Tron stars Jeff Bridges and is based on the game of the same name, yes it was camp, the effects are not very good, and it is produced by Walt Disney strangely enough but at the same time this is not a bad little film when you watch it, if it was released tday it would be a massacre but when looked in context of its release time of 1982 a good time could be had with this film, it was definately a good start to the games as an art-form cries that spread through many gamers lips these days, but unfortunately the great start was not followed up by the future crop of attempts.

Super Mario Bros. (1993):

A film that makes your wonder what Mario must have done in a past life to be stuck with a movie like this. Everybody's favourite plumber ended up with a movie that people tried to cast out and erase from there memories for many many years, but there is no hiding the fact that Super Mario Bros is a very shockingly bad movie. Millions of years ago, a meteor hits the Earth and causes time to fissure around the island of Manhattan, resulting in a cramped parallel universe where humanity has evolved from dinosaurs rather than apes. Lizard King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) runs the alternate city and has kidnapped fugitive Princess Daisy (Mathis), an orphan who was raised from an egg by nuns in our world, and who has just caught the attention of Luigi Mario (Jonh Leguizamo), younger brother and business partner of mustachioed plumber Mario Mario (Bob Hoskins). Seriously do yourself a favor, dust off a snes, put the cartridge in and roleplay the video game with a few mates and you would have a better time and a more true Mario experience than this.

Street Fighter - Mortal Kombat (both 1995):

Yes in 1995 we had a clash of two of the most iconic fighter games of last century both getting a big screen adaptation, but as we all know neither was very good. Street fighter had Jean Claude Van Damme as the american hero (slightly ironic even with the accent still intact) and his great little Cami sidekick played by the ever first choice kick-ass Kylie Minogue (bad casting anybody?) most of the iconic characters seemed to take a back seat in this movie, including Ryu and Ken only having supporting roles for the Dutch err.... i mean American kick ass military guy and the Australian err.... i mean American again love interest, seriously what was they thinking?. Mortal Kombat comes out of the issue slightly better, but still not with a truly great movie, Scorpian looks great in this and some of the characters play very well on the big screen, but the god awful techno music constantly making an appearance almost makes you perform a fatality on yourself.

Tomb Raider (2001):

Hmm, Lara Croft (tick)... Angelina Jolie playing Lara Croft (double tick) so why did this one faily to deliver on the great premise of one of Playstations most loved titles? because put simply tomb raider was inspired by the like of Indiana Jones, and you just can't breath new life into something that people have seen before without a great screenplay or characters that the audience cares about, sure Angelina Jolie gives it a very good go in the lead role and came out of this film as every fanboys wet dream. With a little more time and effort put in to the story this could have been the one to truly break the mould, the sequel pushed it beyond saving, but the true responsability for nowadays rush of video games to movie's was created by the success of....

Resident Evil (2002):

Resident Evil, the low budget zombie film that made a killing at the box office and leader of the new wave of game adaptations. All it had to do was set up in a mansion and let the zombie's do the rest of the talking for the movie; but no Paul Anderson had other plans - lets wipe out half the cast by a lazer show then leave the rest up to the zombies's... WHAT THE HELL!. Bringing in none of the iconic characters (except for the licker) was also a bad choice and this movie just never really picked up. It was an OK film i will admit, if it did not have the name of Resident Evil on it, i think we would have stomached it a bit better. But as it is all that can be said is that it only got worse through the sequels :( God i would love to be given the shot to revamp it all and bring it back to what it should be, but while it keeps on making money as it is, that day will never come.

I will continue this blog tomorrow as i suddenly realise that i am very sleepy and need some rest lol, thanks for reading so far!

Yes well me not being the stereotypical gamer, im also a fitness freak and sports fanatic while i am at it! and one thing i like to do is run, and yes it is coming to pass again that i have another Marathon to train for, and that is the London Marathon 2009 in April next year. You probably are thinking that i have plenty of time to train but believe me, 26 miles is an absolute nightmare and you really should allow a year for training, but me being my usual self decided to live up the summer and enjoyed a nice little break; but now i am focused, determined and ready to beat my personal best of 4 hours, so that means i need to cut back on the snacks, beer and pizza's and get out there and do some running! just finished 4 miles and i feel shattered so its clear that i am currently not up to my all time peak of fitness lol, but im sure with time i will excel and look as shattered eventually as i did at the end of last years marathon:

In other news I decided to treat a fair young lady i know to a day out in London (although i used to live there and hate the place she loves it) so i took her to Hampton Court palace to have a look around King Henry the 8th's little shindig (albeit a massive shindig), she loved it and i have to say that i had a good time too, even though she forced me to do a traditional english dance with one of the actresses in the courtyard to which embarrassed me like you wouldn't believe but im a good sport so played along with it. We then carried on to the Maze garden to which i was clearly concentrating too hard on to figure the way to the centre of the maze:

The final bit of news is that i invested in soul calibur 4, i have to say... did i miss something or is this game a little thin? i mean i was happily hacking my way through the story mode not dieing on hard mode expecting it to get a little harder and then it suddenly finishes within 20 mins and 5 stages, come on! is it because i was playing as darth vader and he is stupidly over-powered or something or is this just your basic fighter game, even the create a character was not as deep as i wanted it to be; but anyways i will play further before i past judgement, was just a little shocked is all that the credits came up after 20 mins of game play lol!.

Well since im not going to be around tomorrow and I really do not have much else to talk about at the mo, why not continue on the story a little more, here is part 2 of the story, hope you enjoy :)

Thanks for reading :)

Ok so i got my PS3 back from my friend after lending it to him for a week and picking it up 3 weeks later, now like a true idiot i forgot that he has a 1080p HDTV whereas mine only goes up to 1080i, now when i turn on i get the sweet sounds of my ps3 but i also get a blank screen. Hellboy being the smart boy that he is now has a plan on how to get it back to 1080i... i need your help lol.

Now since i can here the clicks as im goin along the crossbar i will be able to identify where the display settings are by somebody telling me how many clicks down/up etc from the standard starting area, now i know that settings is the second main option from the left on the cross bar, now all i need to know is where DISPLAY settings sites within that (i.e. 3 clicks up from the bottom etc.) so if somebody can help me with this it would be a huge help!

P.S. i know the other option is to go round my mates and reset the options there but i can't be bothered to drive another half an hour and i really want to get on with soul caliber 4 lol!

Thanks in advance (i may even make you a new banner *cough* nicholai *cough* :D

Ok kids today and every Thursday, i want to tell a little story, and since i got more time than sense you get a nice little comic panel style every week! the story follows characters within the game World of Warcraft, tried to make them as funny as possible, so please stick with them and i hope you enjoy :D :

Thanks for reading, the story continues next thursday :D hope you enjoy and please comment