By Tom Hooper aka Atomp Papers, Please is somewhat unique and not long ago the free beta that I’m previewing here got a great deal of attention from the youtube gaming community, as such I figured it would be good to go back and look at it in preparation for…
Read MoreDishonored, [Arkane Studios] Review
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp This review is fairly late in terms of the original release of October 2012 however the recent release of new Knife of Dunwall DLC has brought me back to it. Whilst I haven’t yet played the DLC through thoroughly enough to review it, I have…
Read MoreDon’t Starve, [Klei Entertainment] (P)review
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp Today I’m returning to my somewhat recurring unforgiving-survival-games theme with Klei Entertainment’s Don’t Starve. This is a currently in beta 2.5D wilderness survival game with liberal sprinklings of science, magic and a hefty dose of character. As is your standard for survival games it’s necessary…
Read MoreSL Viewer Walktrhough – Starting at the top, V3 Walkthrough
So you want to get into Second Life? Well, for that you need a client to run Second Life from, in addition to an account. The client is called a Viewer and in the next few weeks I am going to try and explain the difference between different viewers for you,…
Read MoreJack Caffrey in Poppet by Mo Hayder
Mental asylums have long been my favourite setting for a good horror novel. There’s just something about total insanity and the fact that you can’t trust your own senses that makes it that much scarier. Mo Hayder depicts this setting in a very natural and realistic way, as her words…
Read MoreThis week in Tech – Pathfinding Tools enables RP sims to have NPC’s
There’s no secret that the next LSL (Linden Scripting Language) library update in progress is the Pathfinder Tools, but what are these? Pathfinder will allow prims to detect other prims around them and react to them in a certain way. A car could “see” the tree in front of it…
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NEW CITIZENS FOR NEW CITIZENS
New Citizens Incorporated So here you are, newly arrived in SL. What do you do and where do you go? Well the world is your oyster, but for a start let’s take a trip over to NCI New Citizens Incorporated. This is a mine of information both basic and complex. …
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The Torch – Now Expanding
As you might have noticed, we changed the name, design and layout of the guide. Apart from this obvious change we’re also expanding. We are now looking for new writers, photographers and models. As you might or might not know, this guide is run entirely without profit and therefore we…
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