Month of August, 2008

It's been a while since I've reviewed a game or even bought a new one but yesterday I purchased Civilization Revolution for Xbox 360. The game follows in the footsteps of past Civilization games, you control a nation and are responsible for expansion, technological advances, defense, politics and an array of other demographics for managing your civilization.

I've been a big fan of the Civilization (Civ) franchise since Civ 2 and was keen to discover how the game had made its transition from PC to console. Over the past year I've favored console games over PC games because of the ease of putting in a disk and playing a game over installing it on your PC.

Civilization Revolution is similar to Civ 4 for the PC however much of the micro management from Civ 4 has been removed, the pace of the game has been significantly increased mainly because technological discoveries happen a lot faster. 

Managing city workers in the game has been almost removed and a simplified way of building roads between cities has been implemented. Many of the wonders have changed the benefits they make available to an extent where many of them are now worthless.

The interface and controls have made the transition well from the pc to console, the interface is easy to move around with a controller and you don't feel like your missing the keyboard and mouse.

If your a fan of past Civ games or enjoy turn based strategies then I would recommend Civilization 4, otherwise it might not be the game for you.

Clever, Burger King, Very Clever
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It's been quiet here at ImAFish for the past week because we have been working on our new website!

http://www.killerauto.com

The site features some of the best cars in the world and lets you review and score each one of them. We have found some stunning pictures, the top statistics and some mind blowing videos giving you a great overview of each car.

Check it out today and start reviewing cars! 

There's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping pics that the internet declared 'FAKE!' the moment they appeared. But as it turns out, some of them are, in fact, insanely surreal photographs of weird stuff around the world.

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Let's try to keep the bad parenting bait to a minimum for this one, folks, but holy crow, I can't not show you this story. A 16-year-old in Raleigh, N.C., whose parents have let him drop out of school so that he can focus on a professional gaming career via Guitar Hero

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Have you ever heard a song whilst you were out and wondered what that it was? Well the free Shazam app will listen to the song then let you know what it is.

When you open the Shazam app it lists your previously discovered songs.

Hitting Tag Now will start the detection process.

The app listens to a few seconds of the song.

Then sends it off to its server to see if its on record.

If it is then a few seconds later it tells you the song and gives you the option to buy it.

The song has to be playing at a reasonable volume with little other background noise for it to work. I tried it in a pub on Friday and it was unable to detect the song but while sitting in front of the TV or listening to the radio it worked fine.

In its first 24 hours available, EIGHT people -- six Americans and two from Europe -- bought "I Am Rich," a seemingly useless iPhone app that has since been removed from the App Store, for a penny under one grand. I am dead serious.

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The ImAFish Forum has seen its best month since May 2006 in what's been hailed as an epic revival. It was only five months ago in February that the Forum had its worst month ever.

The Forum Posts Per Month graph can be found on ImAFish Reports. The data goes all the way back from when the forum was founded in 2002. I've tried to see if there are any patterns in posting habits however there are no clear trends.

May seems a particularly good month throughout the years, this could be put down to it being exam time meaning members were looking for more ways to procrastinate however considering most members have full time jobs now this no longer applies.

Posting figures had been stabilising until about a year ago when the number of posters decreased, this dip lasted about 10 months until June when activity started to pick up again.

The number of posts per month on the forum is far from the early days in 2002 and 2003