Gamerpoints this month: 1.205

Running

Distance Run: 7.5km (shameful)

Furthest Run: 5km

Reviews

iPhone 366

All of the moving about has meant I haven’t been doing any running, but thankfully when I did start again this week it hasn’t been as painful as it could have been, I’m up to 70km for the year which is already half the distance I did in the whole of 2011 so thats positive at least.

Gaming wise I haven’t played as much as normal but I have had the chance to review some great games in the form of Call of Duty Elite DLC Drop 2 – Overwatch, Zumba Fitness Rush, Mass Effect 3, Nexuiz, & Call of Duty Elite DLC Drop 3 – I’m playing Mass Effect 3 again and at a bit more of a leisurley pace with my imported Shepard from the previous two games, I just can’t get enough of it. The only downside is having to review other games in between. I’m checking out the new Gears of War 3 DLC “Forces of Nature” at the moment so I may squeeze my 6th review in before the end of the month.

I also got to go and check out Kinect: Star Wars in London just over a week ago, the game is ok but you don’t have much control as the computer decides where you move and on which enemy to focus on. I did get to meet a real R2D2 though so that was pretty cool.

Gaming

Gamerpoints this month: 800

Running

Distance Run: 11.6km

Furthest Run: 5.17km

Reviews

iPhone 366

Gamerpoints this month: 1,130

Running

Distnace Run: 24.4km

Furthest Run: 10km

Reviews

F1 2011 iOS Review

Mass Effect 3 Demo impressions

 Grand Slam Tennis 2

iPhone 366

So I have hit the 24 hour mark in Skyrim and I’m having a great time. I know most people seem to be putting 100+ hours into the game and I can see why, I’ve only managed 4 quests out of the main quest line, the rest of the time has been spent exploring, trying to raise some cash and bag Aela the Huntress as a wife…

Despite my huge pile of shame to deal with I’ve been pretty much hooked on this game, there is something addictive about discovering new locations, finding new quests and having random battles in the wilderness.  I still remember the first time I encountered a dragon, I just ran and luckily I was near a town where the residents helped me bring it down, now I enjoy nothing more than taking on our huge flying enemies.

I’m trying to increase my Smithing skill so that I can craft myself an amazing bow, I tend to prefer close combat but that doesn’t always work here which means adapting the way I play. I’m up to about 60 on Archery so I should be quite the arrowman soon.

I’ll no doubt double the amount of time I have played the game but beyond that who knows? Luckily things are fairly quiet in the review front, but it’s only a matter of time before that changes. Mass Effect 3 is also out at the start of next month but I think I will hold off buying it it just yet. We all know it is going to be an awesome game but I think a few shorter games need to be played first.

I shouldn’t forget about my pile of shame either. I managed to get one game out of the way whilst I haven’t been running during at work and that was 007: Blood Stone, it was actually more enjoyable than I thought it would be, the driving scenes were a bit rubbish but I’ve certainly played worse games. I may just do a random draw for my next title, then again I might just play Halo Anniversary.

Gamerpoints this month: 1,795

Running

Distnace Run: 32km

Furthest Run: 10km

iPhone 366

There is no huge headed Sonic outfit this year, as fun as it was it will be nice to do the run in something a bit lighter, which is why I have chosen a character from one of my favourite games of 2011… Batman.

If you don’t know about SpecialEffect then where have you been?

SpecialEffect is a charity dedicated to helping ALL young people with disabilities to enjoy computer games. For these children, the majority of computer games are simply too quick or too difficult to play, and we can help them and their parents to find out which games they CAN play, and how to adapt those games that they can’t.

All of us gamers are very lucky we can enjoy the games the way we want, so why not help those who can’t?

If you would like to donate I have set up a Justgiving page for people to donate on, which can be found by clicking on these letters. You can also donate by text by putting:

To: 70070
DMBM99
£1

Anything you can give will be greatley appreciated, lets raise some money!

Available on the App Store at 69p, CloudScrob updates your online profile without ever syncing to a computer. Each time you open it, CloudScrob scans your music library looking for updated play counts, then notifies you and sends them to Last.fm, perfect.

In the settings you can get CloudScrob to confirm what song will be submitted and remove songs you prefer people not to see, I have a lullaby album on my iPhone for my little boy that doesn’t need to be sent so it’s nice to remove that. You can also choose to scrobble Audiobooks and Podcasts if you wish. CloudScrob will also save your scrobbles while you are offline and submit them later for you.

You do need to make sure that you have fully listened to a song though, hopefully in the future Apple will give you the choice to specify that after a certain percentage of song has been played to register as fully played, we’ll have to wait and see about that.

That’s it! It’s a simple but very useful app for iPhone users who want to know who they listen to the most. Scrobble away….

When I haven’t been playing those I’ve been trying to improve my K/D ratio on Modern Warfare 3 as part of my review of COD Elite for xboer360.com, I’ve also been playing FIFA 12 like I always do but playing it badly, really badly. I lost 14 online games IN A ROW, I’ve never lost more than 5. I finally managed to bag a win but I still seem to be struggling, hopefully I’ll find my form soon.

One game I have had in my pile of shame is Skyrim, its been sitting there since release and I finally decided to load it up and see what all the fuss was about. It took me about 2 hours to get into it, but after defeating my first Dragon I have found an addiction! I haven’t really done anything in the game yet except explore, finding giants and running away from them but its perectly paced for me at the momemnt so I’m going to enjoy it whilst I can.

So there I was at 11:30 all kitted up and ready to go, I got outside and it was as horrible as it looked, almost immediatley rain was flying into my face and the wind felt like it was coming from everywhere, but you know what? I was quite enjoying myself. As for the GPS app, well the weathe r got the better of it, I was running a kilometer every two minutes! I already knew that the run I was on was 3km, but now all my stats on the website are going to be messed up. Will need to fix that later on.

Anyway, that’s the first run of the year out the way, hopefully the weather will be kind to me next time…

Gaming

Last year saw me play 113 games on the Xbox and amass 24,105 gamerpoints, the most in a year since I bought the 360. My completion percentage is down to 39.4% which is the lowest it has been.

My only real aim for the year is to improve that percentage and possibly beat the 24k in a year, I’m not sure that will happen though.

Photos

I’m not sure how many photos I took last year but it wasn’t many, so this year my main aim this year is to complete my iPhone 365, the first picture is already on Instagram but I’ll post it on here later on.

Running

144km last year, I wanted to hit 200 but never quite made it, no harm in trying again though! Also hoping to run for Special Effect as well in the British 10k.

First run will be on the 3rd and I’ll be starting from scratch so you’ll hear all about it on Twitter!

That’s more than enough to keep me busy this year, lets see how I get on…