A New Year - Go as you mean to go on!

They say you should start the year as you mean to go on, so i felt i better write something today or already doom 2013 to the scrap heap! Lets hope it isn't too literal that saying as i had curry and a cupcake with coffee for breakfast.

What can i say about 2013, not a lot so far. However i can look forward and muse over what will be and might be. Where to start, well the long awaited upgrade from the hunk of junk laptop which required fork handles (four candles, for those who didn't get the Two Ronnies reference and if you didn't then shame on you and see it here) to keep cool, is now imminent with the new desktop PC being built next week hopefully. Now before you all get your hopes up that i will have some all singing and dancing gaming beast of a PC, in true Nosh fashion it is only a half baked PC in need of more bits. I am cannibalizing an old case, disk drives and the Hard drive from my laptop as I'm too poor to get new ones, however they are on the to buy list when i have some money along with a graphics card, which does mean i am still using onboard graphics but they should still be better than my laptops.

Films from Games - Always Bad?

I have often thought when playing some new game that this would make an awesome film. Well it seems that those in Hollywood agree, with the announcement from Ubisoft that they are releasing a film version of Splinter Cell staring Tom Hardy as the lead character Sam Fisher. Not only Splinter Cell is getting the silver screen treatment as we can also look forward to an Assassins Creed film with Michael Fassbender starring. We can look forward to both hopefully reaching our screens in 2013.

However exciting and promising news this is for fans of the games who have for years called out for film adaptations, we must remember that this isnt the film industries first foray into film adaptations of games. i mean who doesn't wish they hadn't bothered with the Prince of Persia film! It was about as close to a worthy homage to the original game, as a punch in the face is to a handshake! We can also look at adaptations of board games, with the critically slated Battleships (2012).

Either way we can just only hope that the makers of these films have learnt from the lessons of their predecessors, and we shall judge them on their own merits when they are released.  

Nosh, Signing Out.