Google Plus to close...

As google has announced the end of G+, I'm now looking for a new place to call home..
 I will keep posting the odd thing on there now and again, but when you know it's going I'm not sure why you would keep posting on it.....
 If anyone has a new or maybe an old platform that's not well know, but is in many ways like G+, do let me know.

Gone all Plex

I have been watching the development of PLEX for sometime and finally decided to instal and see if I could run my own media server for all the films, tv shows and music I have collected over many, many years. After a fairly simple setup, I had it up and running, then I got the buy the lifetime pass at a cheaper price email and went for it.

New Phone Day

Who doesn't like new phone day..... not I.
  New phone is the Huawei P20, would of loved the P20pro, but that one was just a bit out of my price range. So far I'm liking this one though.

SteamVR Performance Test

 Thought I would give Steam's VR test programme a run last night. I bought my pc last year and I did my best to get the most for my price range, so I was interested to see how it would stand up to what some people are saying is the next big thing for gaming (though I have my own views on that).
The programme itself is available in your steam library under Software/Utilities and is about a 1.9gb download, which I thought was overkill for what it does....  Anyway once installed it runs for about 2mins to see if your pc can handle VR. I'm happy to say it passed and was marked as Ready, but only just in the ready marker! (see screen grab). I guess I'm glad that my system would be good to go, but VR is in my mind many years away from being a real need for any gamer, and at the price mark of $800 which will be £800 uk when it does come out here, as our exchange rate is odd that way, it's not going to be on many people's shopping lists.
 As with all new tech coming onto the market, the price is very important and really is only for the first adopters. I myself have trouble with motion sickness while playing fps, though I do believe they have managed to reduce that problem, I would still have to test run it, and even then it's like 3D movies, when they just chuck a few things flying at the screen to say "Hey look 3D" it's a real waste, they will really need to make it it's own genre not just adapt a few games to work with it. VR it's the future......

Steam VR.

RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space

    Very Cool

Unreal Engine 4

Now this is impressive. I'm a big fan of Unreal and there engine tech, this is the latest graphics demo 'Infiltrator'.
  Hope we don't need too much of a beast of a system to run the games coming on this.

Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer

 Here is the new trailer for Cyberpunk 2077, a new game by the guys behind Witcher 1 and 2. I can not wait to see some ingame video of this running. I'm a big fan of all things Cyberpunk but have never played the rpg, and as it was made in the 80's and there are still well over 5million people still playing it, it must be good. So this and the new Shadowrun game and I will be happy :)







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New Final Fantasy XIV trailer

Amazing new trailer for Final Fantasy XIV.
 You have to give it to Square Enix, they know how to do intro's.

Jelly Bean has arrived

  Well after what felt like months of them saying the Galaxy S3 would get Jelly Bean, it final arrived for me Wednesday night. I ended up downloading it through Samsung Kies as over the air was not getting to me! So far I'm very happy with it.

Sun flare in HD

    Here is a short video clip of the last sun solar flare that went off on the 2nd of this month.
 And NASA says that this just marks the start of a long, crazy solar storm season.

 The Sun goes through a regular activity cycle that lasts about 11 years, cycling between activity (solar maximum) and quiet (solar minimum). The last solar maximum was in 2001 followed by a long period of very little activity. The eruptions are among the first signs that the Sun is waking up and beginning to move towards another solar maximum, expected to occur in about 2013.

Microsoft Surface - Gamers Dream?

     Now I'm a bit of a gamer when given the chance, and for the last few years have been watching Surface with excitement! This looks great, still well out of reach price wise for any one that does not have there own jet, but we can dream.