Review: Mario Kart DS (DS)

Format: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Nintendo
Producer: In-House
Genre: Racing
Price: £29.99
Origin: Japan
Reviewer: Sideath

So, it’s finally arrived. The fifth installment of Mario Kart, for Nintendo’s current-gen console, the Nintendo DS. This game seems to be at the peak of the series, and has all the good qualities of the previous Mario Karts, but also more besides.

Film Review – Trainspotting (Explicit Content)

“Choose life. Choose a joab. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f**king big television. Choose washing machines, cars, etc.”
Although this film is actually 9 years old, I have just recently watched it. For the fifth time.

To start even thinking about watching this film, one has to throw all convention out the window. A Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction and other films do not compare in the un-convention of this film. Just as a side recommendation, I would also read the novel by Irvine Welsh by the same name.

Update v.1.3

A few changes this week:

*The biggest change is probably the title – As this webpage is probably now the only Chimpware Webpage still running, so now it has become the Chimpware HQ
*Unfortunaly, Google Adsense has caught a whiff of our blog and thus are putting ads on it – this may be a good thing as I might (very unlikely, but might) get paid
*Added a hit counter

Next update possibilities

*Chimpware Podcast
*Chimpware Forum
*Chimpware Newsletter

Combat Mission Anthology

Today folks, I present to you, something a little bit different.

Major Howard has landed with some units of D Company, 6th Airborne just off the orne river. I pan up, ahead I see the town of Benouville, just in front however is a problem, a German Pillbox and a stone one at that. I don’t think my PIAT’s are going to be enough, and worse I know the Germans are being reinforced with armour later.

What would you do in this situation? Panic? Rush? Fall back? Combat Mission gave me another option, I didn’t actually have to nock the pillbox out, all I have to do is capture the bridge it’s defending. My solution? Easy I order a private to wing a smoke grenade in front of the ‘box, his field of view is broken, if he can’t see me he can’t fire at me.

[Review] Razer Viper

Item Type: Mouse
Brand: Razer
Model: Viper
Link: http://www.razerzone.com/

The Good The Viper is a very nice mouse to look at, hansomly resembling it’s namesake, and the casing is designed so that the led glows eerily through the mouse giving it a nice look. The buttons are nice and big, and it has handy non slip “rails” running down the side making the whole thing easier to hold. It is also very comfortable to use. First and formost this a gaming mouse, so expect lightning fast reactions, 1000 dpi (dots per inch), thats 200 more then say, the MX led series offers. So during a game it handles beautifully, tracking all of your movements smoothly, allowing you to get very precise aim, or to spin round really, really fast. For a laugh I set the Vipers sensitivity on full (using the handy software icluded) and CS: S sens on full to then just moved my hand from one side of my mousemat to the other, the result: lots of comedy spinning, and eventually my game crashing. The clincher? it was £30 when i bought it and must be considerably cheaper now. Plus the usb bit is gold. Anything gold reeks of quality, and bling.

Miyamoto turns 53!

CWN would like to wish a very happy birthday to the genius behind Mario and Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, who turns 53 today!

Source: 4colorrebellion

Miyamoto Wiki
Miyamoto Shrine

Lateral Thinking – Reserve or Release

This article was originally written for Sideath’s blog. Republished by authour for CWN.

Are reservations a sign of weakness?

Gamestation recently have stopped taking Xbox 360 reservations. My branch are getting about 35 and all have beeen reserved – a full month before the launch date! Anyone who wants an Xbox 360 before Christmas has three choices – eBay, kill for it, or go to ASDA.

My local branch of ASDA will recieve 5 Pro Packs of the Xbox 360 when they are released. They’re not taking reservations. I’m willing to bet that if I walked into ASDA on the 25 November before noon then there is a perfectly good chance of getting my grubby mitts on one. It would be amusing to see the queues of people outside GAME, ePlay et al while I simply stroll into ASDA and pick up my Xbox 360 - not that I will of course, if the price/timeline of the Xbox is anything to go by.