Newish toys
The latest addiction here is AudioSurf. Great fun, but I am a little cautious about making an unqualified recommendation because it seems to be a bit buggy.
The general drift, if you haven’t already heard of it, is that it creates a track from a music file, and then you drive along it doing a colour-match puzzle. Tracks and tiles (”cars”) are calculated from the music. So if you put on something like Joni Mitchell’s River you’re in for a smooth ride, but the Beasts of Bourbon’s Ten Wheels for Jesus is rather trickier.
Bugwise, we’ve so far come across one where minimizing crashes the game, and rather more frequently anything that needs QuickTime to decode doesn’t work from a network share.
Yesterday’s little experiment involved renting I Am Legend from iTunes. This works fine with store credit but you do have to tie the AppleTV to your US account — merely being authorised to play via your iTunes installation doesn’t suffice.
The movie itself was surprisingly good. I am always dubious about remakes, but this was (a) quite different to The Omega Man — Neville is believable as a scientist, for a start — and (b) better than it too unless you’re after a 70’s Charlton Heston strutfest.
Will use the rental service again. The experience was pretty straightforward. If more content were captioned — and captions on AppleTV weren’t tiny — we’d probably buy/rent a lot, but as-is it’ll do for cases where my partner is out of town and I want something to watch.
Popularity: 27% [?]
Looks cool, let’s give it a go …
STEAM?
Aaah, fukkit. It couldn’t possibly be that much fun.
As online game distribution tools go, Steam is about the least troublesome/annoying I’ve come across.