Worms 2: Armageddon was released on Xbox Live Arcade yesterday for 800 MS points. It is fantastic. Its like being in the golden age of 2D Worms again! Works beautifully over Xbox Live, and even uses those stupid NXE avatars to announce each player’s turn. I spent several hours at it last night. Holy hand grenades, banana bombs, exploding sheep, etc. Great 
It is a much more complete experience than the first Worms game on XBLA, mainly because at the time the first one was released, XBLA games were restricted to being a maximum of 50MB in size. Worms 2 is over 170MB.
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Was rooting around in the attic today, wiring a second connection from the TV aerial up there down to a TV downstairs. All was going swimmingly until I slipped and put my foot between two beams and through the ceiling. Didn’t look too bad from inside the attic, but looks like a fecking disaster from the hall down below. Bits of plaster and fiberglass hanging out all over the place. I wonder if the house insurance covers it?
I just updated my iPhone to version 3.0. It was quick and painless, although my jailbreak and carrier unlock have been removed by it. Fortunately the iPhone Dev Team crew are promising to release their jailbreak tools for 3.0 tonight, and unlock tools (called Ultrasn0w :)) on Friday.
I don’t need the unlock since I’m on an O2 SIM anyway, but its always nice to keep one’s options open… and to use cheap foreign SIM cards when roaming.
I particularly like the new spotlight search, which will search the entire phone (including emails, music tracks, podcasts, contacts, etc) for content matching your keywords. See the screenshot below for example.
Also, some long overdue features that should have been present from day 1, such as MMS messaging and copy & paste finally arrived. Its free it seems to have come with no performance penalty, although I have read about a few people on boards.ie experiencing difficulty performing the upgrade and having to wipe and restore their devices.
I still recommend it. This update is available to iPod Touch users as well but Apple will charge you for it 
Today Ireland goes to the polls for local and european parliament elections, as well as two Dáil by-elections in Dublin. Go and vote, if you don’t you have no right to bitch and moan about the result!
Also, down with the stupid media “moratorium” on election coverage until after the polls close.
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Usually I find events like E3 to be a big media wank-fest but there’s some solid gold coming out of this year’s E3, such as:
Left 4 Dead 2 (PC, Xbox 360). Due November 16th, 2009. Yes, only 1 year after the previous one, but damn it looks good.
Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360). Due October 2009. Several years after the previous one, which I loved. Trailer.
Also, they’re remaking 1990’s PC/Amiga classic The Curse of Monkey Island for Xbox 360. One of my all time favourite games. Video here. They’re also making a new episodic Monkey Island game.
Recession? What Recession? I’m going to have to drop the cash for all of these.
And its easy too, but there’s a catch. It needs to have bootloader version 5.08, which mine conveniently does. If you have 5.09 or newer, you’re still screwed for now.
Full and idiot-proof instructions on iClarified. Essentially all it does is downgrade the baseband firmware of your iPhone to a version that the existing soft unlock tools work with. It worked perfectly on my O2 iPhone.
As seen on last night’s Questions and Answers. This is the most moving thing I’ve ever seen on television. Please repost this video on your own blog or whatever to bring as much attention as possible to it, and thus as much shame as possible on the government and the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland. Maybe then they might admit some responsibility and treat the victims properly.
Got home from Chicago yesterday morning and tried to stay awake to combat the jet lag. I failed later in the day and slept for 12 hours last night! Anyway, had a good time and took tons of photos, which you can see here. Here’s a couple of samples.
Today I hooked my PC up to my nice 32″ HDTV using a DVI-to-HDMI adapter and a HDMI cable. The picture looks wonderful etc. However, there’s a problem. The main reason I did this was to play games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 on the big TV rather than my small PC monitor.
The problem is nVidia’s graphics drivers do not support running things in full screen mode on a secondary display. Huh? Wtf? A quick google reveals that people have been complaining about this since at least 2004. The only current solution is to make the TV the primary display before playing games, then change it back (manually) to the monitor when I’m finished gaming. What a pain in the ass.
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