top ten christmas toys for 2014

Christmas is only around the corner ! , yup that jolly fat man is loading the sleigh, feeding the reindeer and  checking his list twice ! and with that time to check out the latest must have toys for 2014 

1. My Friend Cayla £75 at Hamleys (£53.34 at Tesco and Amazon)
My Friend Cayla is a doll you can ask questions and she’ll answer by looking up the answers on Wikipedia. 
 

yea it looks great , on the base's of a great Internet connection it could be a great toy for any young girl with questions like whats your favorite colour ?  and answers like ' i like pink everything i own is pink i have a pink bed room' isn't that great for young girls to hear ? surely with all the feminists screaming THAT'S SEXIST! and the Internet screaming back WHAT ABOUT THE GUYS ! ? you gotta ask is there going to be a evil talking boy doll as well ?, looking at you tube comments its kind of scary of some of the responses like : 

'Cayla, I found a long, pink, plastic thing, shaped like a banana in mummy's bedside table…. what is it? Oh, and will you be you my friend?'

yea that. think ill leave that there and move on to the next toy. 


 2. Kiddizoom Smart watch £50 at Hamleys (£29.99 at Amazon and Smyths)

This is a fancy watch for children that you can take pictures and videos with as well as play games. You can then upload them for editing. Oh, and it also tells the time. yea this one looks better much better BUT would you want to give something of high spec to a child ? after a quick review its hard to decide  over all the watch does look incredible but when you decide if your 4 year old i recon its best to see if your child could handle it first. Other wise you'd be dealing with 'oh i left it at school' or 'the strap broke' or worse its dropped in the cornflakes. 
 



3. Teskta T-Rex – Roarsome, Pawsome, AWESOME! £75 at Hamleys (£54.99 at Amazon and Smyths) there’s a good chance this one will be the top selling toy this year. this has got to be my red light this year it looks great with multifunction it does much much more then answer questions it walks talks eats and probable shits to ! if you want to get a toy for your little one this has to be it. 



4. DohVinci Style & Store Vanity £25 at Hamleys (£14.99 at Toys R Us)

This is a 3-D Play-Doh that dries hard. yup that's it . you can play with it, you and make stuff with it. kind of a play with once toy. not really what you want from Play-Doh. When your little one grabs the Doh you don't want them to come back an hour later saying its all dry and not working!  ,


plus with the applicator it can easily become blocked messy and to be totally honest it looks really really boring !  yea its OK for the creative kid But it looks like it will last about an hour



5. Leapfrog Leap TV £135 at Hamleys (£119.99 at Amazon and Smyths)
There’s a lot of talk about this being a big one for this year – at least according to the wonders of the web. It’s basically a slimmed down version of Wii for young kids. OK i don't know much about the leap frog stuff, i have heard good things about the products basically its a Wii for kids BUT isn't Wii marketed at kids as well anyway ?  its not like children these days don't know how to use it ? i get the impression that this is just a impulse buy from leap frog. 


6. Transformers Chomp and Stomp Grim lock £115 at Hamleys (£71.99 at Amazon and Smyths)
This is a massive, 51cm-tall dinosaur Transformers action figure. Its eyes light up and its mouth chomps. Obviously, boys are going to love it great for any dinosaur lover ! with Jurassic World around the corner its worth looking in to. Bit pricey at £79.99 but if you have a Dino loving kid they'll love you for it ! 



7. Barbie Colour Change Bag £40 at Hamleys (£23 at Amazon and Tesco)
So this one got me, why would you want to buy a £40 plastic bag it changes colour to what ever your little princess is wearing, I'm pretty stumped on this and don't really know what to say on it. so ill let you make your own mind up. To be honest it would be like buying Barbie purely because she has a new hat . why?! 

8. Frozen: Ice Skating Doll £40 at Hamleys (£23.09 at Amazon)
Yup frozen its on the list. Kinda had to be we cant escape it everyone knows frozen and if you don't were have you been hiding ? its one if not the biggest thing to hit the world since the lion king, 

so the doll is basically ice skating, yea looks great for girls but the doll looks really flimsy like in a young child's hands it will break easy, there's no denying its great for any frozen fan but be careful it does look like it can break easy. 





9. Xeno – The Cheeky Interactive Baby Monster £100 (£79.99 at Smyths and Tesco)
this one looks GREAT ! messy squidgy and snotty Ive heard nothing but good things about it, its a furby on roids, the interactive toy that has loads to do , feed it burp it and make it fart play games with it cuddle it love it ! and yea it talks to ! defiantly worth looking in to it. 

only creepy thing i can find is the Scientology link.. Xeno could be a play on words Xenu ! ( i know a long shoot and a small link but hey
 couldn't help it ! Google the name Xenu its to long to go in to) the toy is great worth trying out. 

10. Boom Co Rapid Madness £65 (£36.99 at Amazon)
This is basically a Nerf gun, without actually being a Nerf gun and it looks incredible with stick darts and smart Stick targets ! i can understand why this is  out selling its rival Nerf its defiantly a better gun then Nerf by far , the best part is not losing your darts ! so for anyone that's a Nerf fan its worth buying. 


so there's the top ten , if ive missed anything out you think might of made it in the top ten then let me know below ! 

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TMNT - one girl and her pet turtles

OK so its been out a while but to be honest Ive been not really wanting to watch it. Being a TMNT since the early years it felt wrong to see it rebooted and how right I was, the original story line shows the turtles mutated from Splinter not from a lab and they were the pets of a young boy not April that was the biggest part that got me , apart from shredder looking like hes taken roids! 


 
The turtles them selves look like some ones hit them all with a shovel to the face, not the lovable ass kicking from yesteryear but something that could give a kid nightmares , the films filled with action packed goodness to the max and that's something else I picked up on, I got the feeling it was packed to much and the references to the earlier years felt like they were placed in at the last minute only 5mins for pizza and only 2 cowabunga references ! really I felt let down by it all , Jonathan Liebesman has really sucked the soul out of the pizza eating teenage mutant ninja turtles, its like the TMNT have advanced with no merit or solid backing behind it they've thrown TMNT in to the next century with not enough power behind it. the hole film was lacking in spirit and soul. I will always remember the lovable ass kicking 4 like this 

Now for the other elephant in the room April O'Neil for one shes not a red head she's brown. and Megan fox I think she should stay away from the guys in green  and stick to the guys made of metal 
( transformers ) this is April red hair and yellow jump suit not someone that looks like every part of her has been tucked pulled and dyed no offence to Megan she was great in transformers but that's it, 


OK the film did have its moments but it didn't feel like TMNT it felt like something completely different , to wrap up it felt like the type of film you'd watch on a Sunday afternoon while telling your kids 'back in my day it was totally different'





When it comes to TMNT and other classic great films I cant help but remember the old saying

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Assassin's Creed Victory

It seems like every few months we have a new assassin's creed game whether its rouge or unity or dead kings
 ( TBA ) its becoming pretty insane to keep up with them all. Ive been a follower of the AC series since number 1 but now its impossible to keep up with £50 + with the cost of each game and now we have the newest game in the series to appear next year. Assassin's Creed Victory, they haven't even worked the bugs out with unity and their attacking a new game set in London, yes the game looks insane as always they haven't failed to impress with their designing skills or mission tasks or the fact they have added a new weapon / tool a grappling hook.

But it sickens me to think scores of fans will be standing outside game early next year for a game that will be half finished , laggy and need something that could give NASA's PCs a run for their money, and if their not PC gamers having to still pay up to £50 + for the console game. The Internet found out about the game though that wonderful way of a leak Ubisoft has responded to the leak confirming the game's legitimacy:

It is always unfortunate when internal assets, not intended for public consumption, are leaked. And, while we certainly welcome anticipation for all of our upcoming titles, we're disappointed for our fans, and our development team, that this conceptual asset is now public. The team in our Quebec studio has been hard at work on the particular game in question for the past few years, and we're excited to officially unveil what the studio has been working on at a later date. In the meantime, our number one priority is enhancing the experience of Assassin's Creed Unity for players.

Are they mad ? forget working on new games they need to sort out the ones they've made !  to my knowledge the new patch for unity : 

Publisher Ubisoft has confirmed that the forth patch for Assassin's Creed: Unity on Xbox One may unintentionally require a 40GB download.

The forth patch is supposed to weigh 6.7GB, but some users are reporting that the update replaces the entire base game. "This is obviously not the expected behaviour, and we apologise that many of you will have to wait longer than expected to complete this download," Ubisoft wrote.

When I think of the poor sods developing the games I get the image of a factory with the poor guys chained to a desk developing from 9-5 churning out new games every few months, with problems their not even addressing from the previous games (think we all remember the blunder of AC 3 ) so I beg of the AC Dev's if your going to power through and make the new AC victory please please make sure its bug free! 

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Great ways to stay warm while gaming !

As the cold snap hits the UK its harder and harder to stay warm so here's a few tips we use to stay hot in the freezing cold

1. Laptops and their chargers 
So instead of placing them on a table don't be afraid to use them on your lap pretty simple idea i know but the power/ battery pack will get hot perfect for the cold nights.  also use the power brick on the charger to keep the feet warm ( yup it works tried and tested many many times ) 

2. monster PCs 

If your anything like us you'll have a monster PC hidden in the corner of the room the type that needs a massive heat sink to keep cool well in this cold weather you wont need to worries about that so much just turn it on and huddle around it singing the 12 days of Christmas. next is  usb drink warmers  these are something Ive  never really tried though Ive heard mixed things so its really buy at your own risk 

3. draft excluders 
 Sounds old fashioned but this does help if you don't have  one a towel / rug / old blanket will do the same thing.  make sure its at the front door and back door as well as the bedroom door as well. make sure as well when making your bed to tuck the blankets in all the way around the mattress ( sounds stupid but this will help ) then the mandatory extra blankets with hot water bottles. 

5.  spicy food hot or cold and cooked breakfasts

Bit of a no Brian-er  really curry at night and fry ups in the morning. this will make you feel full and warmer for longer. also ready to eat cooked spicy chicken is great for sandwiches and snacks, also  a good tip is a little chili source with the morning fried eggs sounds crazy but it will help keep you warm.

6. Pets 
If you have a cat or small dog let them sit on your lap in the evenings even if you put a blanket down first its like having a hot water bottle on your lap even if you have a 10 stone German Shepard their great for keeping the toes warm!  


well I hope these ideas help if you have any other ideas let me know ! 






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pewdiepie on south park ?!

Yup its happened a youtubers crashed the south park party ! not really a cameo as south park stated but, its only part 1 so who knows ? maybe part two will have pewd's kicking cartman's ass lol. 

So the over all episode focus's on let play videos and how the youth of today are more interested in listening to some YouTuber comment on a video game rather then listening to a human in fount of their faces which is a fair point as each generation comes it seems the human contact aspect of life slips further away, with kids as young as 10 playing with  ipads rather than balls and Xbox's rather than bikes yea Santa still brings a shiny new bike at Christmas then it gets played with for a few weeks, then shoved in the garage to rust away until Santa brings a new one. 


a line in the episode ' the living room is dieing ' a statement that that has never been truer  strange that it comes from south park ! . I cant help but understand their point , sitting last night in a friends house I could see everyone using their devices not talking to each other one on a tablet one one a PC

its like the world as wrapped its self in virtual cotton wool to hide its self away the problem is not all the world is out to get us , yea there's bad guys out there so be careful, but remember the whole world isn't going to mug us the minute you walk out the door be brave and strong the world can be a pretty incredible place !.

a great man once said if technology surpasses the human race the world will have a generation of idiots well that's part true. The next generation or the 'net generation' are not quite idiots they understand maths ,computers English etc... but what about social intelligence ? do they understand the wright way to behave  ?  we learn at primary school how to interact with others, but now with the new phones laptops and game consoles at our finger tips people are more and more using these to talk to their friends that just live down the road its so sad to think this. 

on the subject of the episode yup it was great made me laugh when needed and puked when Lorde was on stage LOL ( not going to drop spoilers) 

so in end ill say this , kids put your devices down and talk to your family it might come as a shock to see them sitting there but guess what they've probably been there all day ! and parents get the kids to play with the greatest toy ever one you probably played with as a kid. Their imagination!

what do you think let me know below
   

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Black Friday Maddness !

Yup that time of year, black Friday is here with a bang and how do we know ? apart from the endless Internet adverts and TV , we were there we battled the crowds at tescos at midnight ! we got there about and hour before to allow enough time the only problem, it was crazy so packed speaking to a few different people some had been there from 8pm

utter madness, when we were there people were screaming punching ( yup res got a punch or two in the back and the chest) but we walked out of there triumphantly with a great deal 32 inch blaupunkt TV :D after walking out we chatted to a few other shoppers, a few tried to grab some things but got punched in the ribs possibly broken as well. 

not only that in the madness a lady was punched in the face with a broken nose yup she got punched for a TV. a bloody TV I'm all for grabbing a bargain but that's just insane another poor sod paid for his TV ( that's a 50 inch TV) and dropped it on the way out and yes it smashed  that poor sod.


here a quick video of some of the craziness that went down. 


 



For those that don't know what black Friday is :
The day After Thanksgiving (Friday) is known as Black Friday. This also is unofficially or officially start of holiday shopping season. Almost all stores come out with Door buster Sales with early bird special to attract consumers to their stores. People stand in line hours before store is opened, to grab the bargain of the year. Almost every store has something that interests every one. For bargain hunters, if there is a biggest festival in a year, that would be, no doubt, the Black Friday. 

So basically its a day where everyone go's totally nuts  best advise to anyone going to a black Friday sale ware extra padding, head to the shops hours before, park far enough that no one will see ( car jacking can happen )




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Why do hackers hack?

There's been talk resonantly about the hackers from CS:GO this leads me to ask why did they ? 


For the edge up ? to test for weaknesses in the game ? to troll other players?  after searching you tube reading countless number of comments I see most do it because of temptation its there the chance to be better then your enemy with no effort. Its a pointless task that to be honest ruins the hole game for others now don't get me wrong there are some guys out there that manipulate the game for other reasons I can think of a few guys that change the rules of hacking totally, not for the 'leg up' but for the laughs Good Guy Jason comes to mind from dayz not a hacker for benefit but for making funny videos ( hes on you tube ). 


But then you get guys hacking for shear kicks. hacking has now become a million dollar business and the sad thing is its growing, with more and more top players being able to buy hacks and cheats for pence. the chance of playing at the top 'legitimately' is impossible with guys like KQLY and Gordon "Sf" Giry how can the little guys make it ?. When rust came out it was tagged as the next big game better then dayz and warz but play the game now and its packed with nothing but hackers. Its no longer about who can survive the longest but who has the better cheats its turned in to a complete mess with no sign of Gary or 'cheat punch' trying to improve it, they can say they are but lets face it the amount of hackers v's what they're doing doesn't really fill me with confidence me and res started playing rust when it was alpha stage and watched the game rise and crash so low. 
 
 some call the people that pay to cheat on games the steroid-users of video games the guys that cant get enough of winning to me id call them ass holes and aim bots all they do is troll others to get a kick out of giving hell to others. 

to end on a note hackers suck they trash some great games for others and not care on the out come , 

what do you think ? let me know  below 


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#GamerGate Is It Dead?

So the Internet movement isn't dead and rightly so, no matter how much the main stream media tries to change it, twist it,  or kill it gamer gate is a idea and an idea cant be killed off , its a just worthy idea fighting for ,The first part, the respectable part, is a debate about the ties between makers of video games and the journalists who write about them. And yes, that relationship should be ethical, and not involve favours, money, sex, or cronyism.
 


and who can blame them ? wanting to know there's more honesty in the video game industry  knowing your spending your well earned money on what you want and getting what you paid for, for example last year I checked reviews on battlefield 4 from a few different you tubers, got it paid for it and hated it the you tubers retracted their option soon after stating it was rubbish. If there were more honesty between the guys reviewing the games and the game developers i wouldn't of wasted £50 for the limited addition pack. 

now the second part of gamer gate worries me the small amount of men that think girls shouldn't play video games at all,  the misogynist video-game players apparently angry about what they see as women and feminine values encroaching on their "space." these guys I run from , I don't want anything to do with them.
 some people might think this is quite a new thing well after looking in to this more I can tell you that its not, woman have always faced issues like this with gaming for years, after checking out the BBC news archive I see woman have been playing for years. and dealing with guys for years to. 

yea trolls say things to girl gamers like 
"Get back in the kitchen and take your goddamn hands off a video game controller."
 and
"I hope your boyfriend beats you. Nah, you can't get a boyfriend."  

Guess what? guys get this to. A gamer wont worry whether your  black, white, African,  polish or Greek they don't care!   they will how ever use what they can as ammo so if your a girl they'll use that to try and piss you off or if your gay they will use that to its called smack talk it happens! 

so on this note I leave it at I hope gamer gate keeps going strong and doesn't stop!! 


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