T'is the season to...

Would you believe it... it's THAT time of year again!

This year seems to have flown by and I barely remember most of it.  No excuse not to get the team together and spend some quality time applying high velocity lead to their squishy bits though!

So I hear by officially announce...

CRIMBO CARNAGE 2011

To be held in Grizzly's new cave on the 3rd of December.

As usual, sound off on the group email with suggestions for games etc...

IsleLAN - 4th June 2011

Thanks to everyone that came along on Saturday... it was certainly a fun session.

You'll be pleased to hear that the stats are now up and can be seen HERE

Also, I'm pleased to announce the first of many FIGHT NIGHTS! This Thursday (the 16th) we'll be running a Counter-Strike Source session from 20:30 through till 22:00. Please keep an eye on the Steam group or your email for more details. If you have a request for a specific game for the next fight night... please let me know!

Enjoy :)

Is it that time again? Hell yeah!

Another LAN session is upon us people. Looking forward to seeing everyone today... through the scope of my rifle!

Bwahahahahahaha... *ahem*

Crimbo Carnage

Thanks to all the LANFix'ers that attended Crimbo Carnage this year, especially to DM for hosting and providing pizza :)

You'll be pleased to know that the stats are now available... http://stats.lanfix.net

You've been tagged?

Stumbled upon a curious thing today... Microsoft Tag; Microsoft's entry into the barcode world.

Doesn't sound too exciting when you put it like that, but it is quite an interesting idea. Basically, with everyone seeming to have a smart phone these days (or the very least a phone capable of browsing the Internet) there seems to be a lot of interest in making it easier for people to enter your web address (hence the rather exponential number of short URLs floating about atm). Microsoft's Tag basically allows you to take a photo of the rather colourful 'barcode' and the Tag app will translate it into a web url or email address etc...

They certainly are the first to try this approach, but their barcodes are easily created, colourful and customisable!

I've included one below for this website using the standard Microsoft format (triangles) but the easiest thing is to try for yourself... for the main website visit http://www.microsoft.com/tag/ and to get the application for your phone, go to http://gettag.mobi

Just don't!

Quick post today... Twin Sector... DON'T BUY IT (or else).

At the risk of devoting more time on this post than I could tolerate of the game:

- Cliche-ridden story
- Shocking animation
- Painful, grinding voice-acting
- Laughable gameplay

If this had been released 10 years ago... it still would have been crap!

End of Summer Smackdown

Thanks to everyone who came along today... it was a great event.

I'd particularly like to thank DM (for hosting), Wod (for being Wod) and Grizzly for providing the first real possible replacement for "What's the reload key" in the last decade... that's right, "Hit 'F' to shoot out of the helicopter". Nothing like the sound of disbelief and panic to drown out the noise of your character plummeting towards the ground and the obvious consequences.

As usual, the statistics for our Counter-Strike Source matches can be found at http://stats.lanfix.net

It's good to be the king (again) :-P