Friday, 25 April 2014

Building the best Hearthstone Deck


Loot Hoarder

The best Common Hearthstone Cards

Loot Hoarder (Common)

Loot Hoarder is my favorite early card to play. This Neutral only costs 2 mana. His modest 2 attack and weak 1 health may not seem that great, but he gives you an extra card when dies. Having more cards than your opponent is an excellent Hearthstone battle winning strategy. More cards means more options.

As soon as you play the Loot Hoarder, something good is bound to happen. In the best case, you’ll do a little damage to the enemy hero or destroy a minion and then get a card. In the worst case, your opponent will waste a Silence ability on it. That means you won’t get your extra card, but that’s also one less Silence that could potentially ruin one of your later threats.

I especially love using the Loot Hoarder in my Paladin deck with the Redemption secret. Redemption brings a killed minion back to life with 1 health, which is perfect for a card that already has 1 health anyway. Using Loot Hoarder and Redemption together can net you two extra cards.

Loot Hoarder costs 40 Dust to craft.

Youthful Brewmaster (Common)

Here’s another valuable 2 mana minion. This Expert common has a great stat distribution at 3 attack and 2 health, making him a threat to some 3 mana cards. But what makes him so effective is his Battlecry; he can return a minion on the board to you hand. So if your opponent injures a valuable unit and you have no way to heal it, you can send it back to your hand and replay it later at full health.

Youthful Brewmaster

I, though, prefer getting a double-dose of a unit’s Battlecry or Charge. So after I, say, deploy a Shattered Stone Cleric (which adds 1 to a minion’s attack and health) or a Defender of Argus (which gives adjacent units’ attack and health a plus 1 bonus and Taunt), I like to play the Youthful Brewmaster, return the card with the cool Battlecry to my hand, and if I have enough mana, play it again that round.

Youthful Brewmaster costs 40 Dust to craft.

Blood Imp (Warlock Common)

the Blood Imp is one of my favorite cards in the Warlock deck (it’s a common expert card). For 1 mana, you get a Stealthed minion (a card that your foe can’t directly target until it makes an attack) with 0 attack and 1 health who gives another random friendly minion +1 health at the end of your turn.

Blood Imp

One of my favorite opening tactics is using the Coin card to gain 1 additional mana and pairing the Blood Imp up with the Flame Imp, giving me a powerful 3/3 minion at the end of my first turn. If the Blood Imp lives long enough, things can quickly spiral out of control for your opponent, who now has to deal with a board full of buffed minions.

Blood Imp costs 40 dust to craft.

. Even if that isn’t the case, Ragnaros can dish out a lot of damage without having to wait a turn to get ready. Just watch out for decks with transformations spells like Hex and Polymorph — they will neutralise him.

The best Rare Hearthstone Cards

Crazed Alchemist (Rare)

A great  low-mana Neutral card. At 2 mana, the Crazed Alchemist already is decent with 2 attack and 2 health. However, this rare card can turn the board to your favor with his Battlecry, which swaps a minion’s attack and health.

He can turn your high life, low attack minions — such as a low-mana Oasis Snapjaw — into a 7 attack powerhouse early in the game. But I prefer to use Crazed Alchemist against my foe’s units.

Crazed Alchemist can instantly render high life, low attack Taunt cards such as Shieldbearer or Mogu’shan Warlord useless, killing Shieldbearer in one stroke and leaving the warlord with just 1 life.

Used offensively, it can cancel a foe’s high attack, low life minion such as a Reckless Rocketer, making them less valuable pieces, especially when your opponent focuses on offense. Crazed Alchemist can even help you remove the Legendary dragon Ysera from the board, turning her intimidating 12 life into 4.

Crazed Alchemist

A good  use for Crazed Alchemist is as a one-shot kill for the Legendary, Nat Pagle. At the end of your foe’s turn, Pagle has a 50 percent chance of drawing a card, so removing him is important. Throw a Crazed Alchemist at him and Pagle, with 0 attack and 4 health, now has 0 health.

Crazed Alchemist costs 100 Dust to craft.

Knife Juggler (Rare)

Another of my favorite cards also costs just 2 mana — the Knife Juggler, a rare Neutral. With 3 attack and 2 health, he’s already a great deal for 2 mana. But it’s his Battlecry that I adore — he throws a 1 damage knife that hits a random enemy unit or hero whenever you summon a minion of your own.

Knife Juggler

I love pairing Knife Juggler with one or two cards with Taunts to protect him on the board and then use cards that summon more than one minion at a time — Unleash the Hounds, Snake Trap, or Savannah Highmane as a Hunter, the Druid’s fireball equivalent Force of Nature, or Neutral cards such as Silver Hand Knight. These cards give the Knife Juggler two or more chances to throw knifes — essentially giving you additional attacks for free.

Knife Juggler costs 100 Dust to craft.

Legendary Hearthstone cards for your deck 

Tirion Fordring (Paladin Legendary)

Tirion is the Paladin-specific Legendary card. He costs 8 mana and has 6 attack and 6 health, but he has other useful bonuses. Want to know what a Hearthstone card taunt ability does? He Taunts, meaning that your opponent has to attack him before any non-Taunting minions or your hero, and has Divine Shield, which protects him from all damage the first time he’s hit.

Tirion Fordring

Best of all, he automatically equips you with a strong weapon upon death, so this card gives you value even after he’s destroyed. Just watch out for decks with silencing or transformation abilities, since those will get rid of all of Tirion’s awesome bonuses.

Tirion costs 1,600 Dust to craft.

Ragnaros the Firelord (Legendary)

Ragnaros is a Legendary card with a high cost of 8 mana, but he’s easily worth it. He has 8 attack and 8 health but can’t directly attack anyone. Instead, he’ll do 8 damage to a random enemy minion or hero at the end of each turn, including the one you used to play him.

Ragnaros the Firelord

Ragnaros works best as a finisher. If your opponent has 8 or less health left and no minions, play this Hearthstone card for an easy win.

Ragnaros costs 1,600 Dust to craft.


HoundmasterBasic cards for your deck

Houndmaster (Hunter Basic)

 Houndmaster, a Hunter minion that gives a friendly beast +2/+2 and Taunt.The downside is that you must have plenty of beasts in your deck for the Houndmaster to be effective, but the Houndmaster is also a formidable minion on its own. Plus, it’s a great counter to the Mage’s Polymorph spell.

You earn Houndmaster by increasing your Hunter class level.

Northshire ClerifNorthshire Cleric (Priest Basic)

A good strategy to use if playing as a Priest is to load up your deck with Northshire Clerics, who grant an extra card every time you heal a minion. The Priest’s special ability lets you heal 2 points of damage in exchange for 2 mana at any time, so if you put out a few Northshire Clerics, you can quickly end up with a larger hand and more attack options. However, the Northshire Cleric isn’t too tough, so it’s good to double its health with Divine Spirit so that you can keep drawing more cards.

You earn Northshire Cleric by increasing your Priest class level.

Mind ControlMind Control (Priest Basic)

The most devastating late-game card is the Priest’s Mind Control spell, which uses all 10 of your mana but takes over an enemy minion. It’s satisfying to watch your enemy build up one unstoppable minion, like a rare dragon, only to make it switch sides when it’s your turn. This is a card that can single-handedly turn the direction of a match, so be sure to use it wisely.

You earn Mind Control by increasing your Priest class level.

Monday, 14 April 2014

Junk Jack X Guide

Guide To Junk Jack X

Junk Jack X is a Minecraft alike game played in 2d that is very reminiscent of Terraria,but also super addictive and very much in need of a walkthrough! 


Junk Jack X: The beginning and overview
How many worlds(dimensions) in Junk Jack ?5 different dimensions.
How many crafting recipes: over 750 crafting recipes. The plethora of things continues with 1600 treasures, 350 peaceable items and over 150 different mobs!
How to start playing Junk Jack
When you first launch the game, you will notice that there are four main buttons: new game, multiplayer, shop and options. It is recommended that you first go into options and edit your settings to allow a more comfortable gaming experience!

The gameplay side button contains a list of very useful toggle able settings, such as peaceful (no hostile mobs will spawn), continues time (time will continue will crafting and using addons), hold to break and simple craft. If your game is lagging, go into the Graphics section and click the “Safe texture load”, “lower sky GFX” and “Lower Graphics” buttons, your game should run more smoothly now! 

The shop contains a list of IAPs that can be purchased. None of these IAPs are necessary but some may want to buy these IAPs. Some of the IAPs drop items, some are solely for texture changing and some are very useful. If you do not want to find all of the crafting recipes, it is recommended that you should purchase the “Full Craft book”. 
Free IAP's!
The Pixbits Shirt and Tiny Jack are free!

Creating your player and world

Now that you are familiar with the options and shop, it is time to create your character and worlds! Tap the “New Game” icon. It will transfer you to the player creator interface. Here you can customize your player. Some customizable features include gender, shoe color, shirt color, short color, skin tone and hair style. You are also able to edit your player name! Beware than once your player is created, you will not be able to edit it. The only way to edit it is to delete it via the “Misc” option in the options menu, however if you delete your player, your inventory will be deleted! Now that you have a player, it is time to create your world! You are able to store an unlimited amount of worlds and you are also able to re-name the world to your liking. It is recommended that you create an Adventure world for your main adventure.
How to use the UI in Junk Jack X

Once you have generated your world, you will spawn in your first Junk Jack X world! You will notice that there are some buttons. Your hot slot is on the right hand side of the screen and it should contain your most important items. When you die, your hot slot items will remain with you. The pause button is on the top left on the screen, along with how many hearts you have. The inventory icon is on the bottom left. The 6 * 6 grid is your inventory. The trash and magnify icon are used to delete and view the names of items. There are also two more buttons to the right. The one on the right is the crafting button, you tap it to view your crafting grid. The button next to it is your player info. Here, you can place armor, ammo and trinkets into your player. If you tap the down arrow, you will be able to see your player’s stats. Your player name is also visible at the top. The button next to the inventory icon is the craft book icon, once tapped it will display all of the crafting recipes you have discovered. Each category contains different types of crafts. The categories are divided into which addon is required to create an item. Addons are required to craft more advanced items, craft and addon, place it down and tap on it and then you will be able to craft more advanced items. There Is also a tutorial button that gives you information on the features of JJX, refer to it in case you are confused or stuck! The hand category contains all items you can create without any addons. 

Where to start

You are in your JJX world, at night time, hostile creatures will spawn and attempt to kill you. Hostile mobs only spawn in the darkness! So light up your house! The first thing you should do is to start chopping down tress, smashing crates along the surface, killing every animal you see and mining as much cobblestone. So first chop down some trees, the more wood the better! Now, create a wooden axe along with a wooden pickaxe. Both recipes can be found in the bare hands category in the in game JJX tutorial. Continue chopping down tress with the axe and mine some stone with a pickaxe! Once you have collected some stone, create some stone tools, such as swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels. Now try to find some coal! Now create some torches and start building a shelter. You can create a simple dirt or wooden one above ground, or dig underground and make a small underground base!

Make sure you fully light up your base, otherwise hostile mobs will spawn in your base! Now that you have a base, you will be safe during the night. Avoid staying out at night initially or the mobs will have ya! Now, create a workbench. The workbench will be used to create other addons. You will most likely not be able to craft a bed as you will need to create an iron bar. Congratulations! It is now nighttime and you are safe in your base!

Chests + Mining



Mining in Junk Jack X is simple. There are 5 different planets in JJX, as your progress to each new planet, each new planet contains a new, more powerful ore. Find portal pieces and place them in a triangle with a space in the middle to unlock new worlds,there are about fifteen portal pieces per world.The better the ore, the stronger the tool, the more durable the tool and the more slots you get in a chest! These are the types of ores that can be used to craft tools, armor and chests: Copper, Iron, Silver, Gold, Mithril, Antanium and Titanium. There are also different biomes underground, such as librarys and mineshafts. The deeper you go underground, the more powerful mobs get but the better loot you will find! 

Portals

There are 5 different planets in JJX, Terra, Seth, Alba, Xeno and Magmar. Portal Chests are ONLY found in Adventure mode! If you create a Terra world or a Seth world, you will find NO portal pieces in them! Each planet contains a new ore, new blocks and new mobs! Mobs will become more powerful as your progress! Be careful!

Liquids

There are three different types of liquids in JJX. Water, Lava and Acid. Jack can drown in water and he will take damage if he steps in Lava or acid. These liquids will also damage mobs! Acid is found only in Xeno! Beware that items can be burnt (deleted) if they are thrown into lava. Liquids will also break addons! Make sure you don't mis tap otherwise a liquid will break your chests, ladders, decorations and addons. Be extra careful with lava as it Wil break your addons but then it will delete the addon items! When Jack enters water, a line of bubbles will appear underneath the health bar. They will slowly deplete as you stay underwater. When Jaxk reaches the surface, the bubbles will slowly start to reappear, almost as if Jack is out of breath and is slowly starting to breath again. You can also get certain trinkets that will make you immune to drowning, damage from lava and damage from acid!

Weapons

There are many different types of weapons in Junk Jack X. Some are dropped from mobs, some are craft able. Each weapon has a different damage type; Slash, smash, or stab. Slash does more damage to mobs like zombies and spiders, and the craftable weapon for it is the sword. Stab does more damage to animals and such, and its craftable weapon is the spear. Lastly, smash does more damage to things like skeletons and golems, and its craftable weapon is the maul. Some weapons are dropped from mobs and other weapons require mobs drops, such as the worm sword, ice sword and serpent sword. 

Tools

There are 5 different tools in Junk Jack X. A pickaxe, shovel, axe, hammer and hoe. A pickaxe is used to mine any stone related block, It will be on of your most important tools. A shovel Is used to dig different types of dirt, sand and other 'earth' blocks. An axe is used to chop trees and also to mine any wood related blocks. Hammers are very important. Hammers are used for breaking chests open, breaking furniture, breaking ladders, doors, breaking addons and removing carpet and half blocks. The last tool is a hoe. To use a hoe, tap a dirt block. The dirt block tapped will now become tilled. This means that you are now able to plant plants onto the tilled soil.

Armor

Armour is crucial in JJX. There are many different types of armor: craft able and mob drops. You can craft metal armor, demon armor, raw leather armor, cured leather armor and wooden armor. Regular armor increases damage and attack, increases speed, increases health, makes you immune to certain things and also provided native light. However there are also armor pieces that are dropped in chests and such. These types of armor and not craft able and are only found in chests! Some pieces of armor and only for decoration and some are extremely helpful! Choose what type of armor you want and see If it matches your play style. Some sets of armor dramatically increase your speed, some sets can give you 12 hearts and some can dramatically increase your attack damage. Armor can also provide immunity to fall damage, immunity to drowning, immunity to bomb damage and immunity to lava and acid. 

Trinkets

Trinkets are items that enhance your character. You equip a trinket by placing it in the slot with the star! Trinkets are extremely helpful in JJX, they prove extra hearts, make you immune to fall damage, lava, acid, able to swim longer, give you extra hearts, increase your speed, prevent blast damage and much more! Some trinkets are craftable and some are found underground in chests. They can be crafted with essences and with mob drops. Trinkets can also be enhanced with gems, giving them another feature! 

Enhancing

Encursting allows armour and tools to have special abilities! To encrust an items, consume a Gem by holding it, then tap on which tool/armour piece you want to enchant and voila! You can also enhance trinkets 
Effects on Tools:
Diamond: Increases drop rates
Ruby: Adds more range
Emerald: Increased knockback + randomly mines adjacent blocks
Topaz: Adds more durability
Saphire: Adds light
Amythest: Increases power

Effect on Armor:
Topaz: breathing in liquids
Sapphire: glowing
Ruby: lava immunity
Emerald: acid immunity
Diamond: a slight increase to defenses
Amethyst: a tiny increase to attacks
The update is on the horizon where the much sought after pet ability will be released and who knows you may even be able to get for omega 3 supplements!

Quickstacking

Quickstacking is something that is extremely useful. It allows you to quickly add items in your inventory to the items in a chest or addon. For example, if you have 2 gold ingots and 2 iron ingots in your inventory, and some iron and gold ingots in your chest, if you tap the quickstack button it will automatically add the iron and gold in your inventory to your chests. To use a quickstack, open the chest and tap the little chest icon, next to the magnify button 

Reducing Lag

Junk Jack X was developed for the iPod touch 5gen, iPhone 5, iPad 3 and above. This is why device that were developed before these devices will sometimes lag while playing JJX. To reduce lag, you should first clear your multitasking history to free up memory. If you still lag, you should alter some in game settings, such as: advanced shaders = off, lower sky gfx = on, lower graphics = on, smooth lighting = off. By altering these settings, JJX should run much smoother now. Advanced shaders causes a lot of lag on older devices, so make sure you turn it off.

Many thanks to the Junk Jack forums and its most imminent user.                From whom this JJX guide was adapted.

Thursday, 3 April 2014

What Clash of Clans Hacks work?

With Boom Beach storming up the charts( as expected) and strange rumblings coming from an in game YouTube linked video advertising a new game/show Clan Wars coming from the deep pockets of SuperCell. (As an aside what is actually going on in that video!! A camp Hog Rider doing some sort of in raid serenade, I'm a bit confused about the Clan Wars video to be honest). It makes you wonder if any of these Clash of Clans Hacks actually work.

My friend owns http://bestfreedownloadgames.com and it's the posting on there( as well as some pretty awesome downloadable games,about 90% work on the iPads Safari browser). That's led me to release this general post for community comment. So which Clash of Clans hacks work for you? If any?
(Btw Clash of Clans Clan Wars info that we know at the moment seems to indicate some sort of ability for leaders and co-leaders to declare war against other clans, if so this could lead to a whole new level of 

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Finding EvanTube on Clash of Clans

If you know what EvanTube HD is you'll be interested in finding the EvanTube Clan in Clash of Clans. If you're not a fan,then you're probably above the age of ten and better skip this article! Still for my kids and others who love Evan and want to join the EvanTube HD clan in Clash of Clans, here's how to do it.
EvanTube HD clash of Clans


First of all here are the clues we used. Of course the Clan is called EvanTube HD, so type those words in exactly. By watching the show we also established that evan's Clash name in StarKid. Combine that with a knowledge of who this semi professional gamer is and his clan logi and his layout and we established that the TownHall above is Evans. Look at the same clues from the photo to find him. Unfortunately the clan is closed so you'll be lucky to get into EvanTube HD, at least the real one as there are many copies. The underneath pic shows how many copies there are and which is the real EvanTube HD clan.

Monday, 31 March 2014

Boom Beach Guide

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Thursday, 27 March 2014

When to expect Xbox Minecraft Update

Well actually the Minecraft 14 update for Xbox is now live (and the PS3 version should follow in a day or so.) We've had a quick play through of the 4J studios flagship titles and we've definitely got a list of favourite new MC XBOX360 features and some that we still have yet to try.
Some of our favourite speculation going down right now is how efficient the new tripwire hooks are going to be in creating trapchests. Combine a tripwire with the new ender chest and you're going to have an awesome multi dimensional trap! Will this be useful to trap ghast when they start pouring out into the overworked through abandoned nether portals, hmmm.
New blocks like emerald look great and the addiction of carpets is another interesting decorative feature, one of those aforementioned we'd like to try is to see if we can combine trapdoors with a carpet on top to disguise them(and pressure plates too). Pig riding has also got easier thanks to ten carrot on a stick which really gets the little porkers racing, and it's easier to get a pig ride too as some pigs now drop saddles on their demise. Thoughts go out to the villagers who now have to take up the daily grind by all having different professions, and even death is no escape from the Minecraft villager rat race as Zombie villagers have reportedly been seen! Perhaps those villagers with better professions can save up for a  yacht from www.a2a-yachting.net - BVI Yacht Charters  ! Here is the 
List of Minecraft Xbox Update features:
New items in Minecraft Xbox
  • Emerald
  • Emerald Ore
  • Block of Emerald
  • Ender Chest
  • Tripwire Hook
  • Enchanted Golden Apple
  • Anvil
  • Flower Pot
  • Cobblestone Walls
  • Mossy Cobblestone Walls
  • Wither Painting
  • Potato
  • Baked Potato
  • Poisonous Potato
  • Carrot
  • Golden Carrot
  • Carrot on a Stick
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Night Vision Potion
  • Invisibility Potion
  • Nether Quartz
  • Nether Quartz Ore
  • Block of Quartz
  • Quartz Slab
  • Quartz Stair
  • Chiseled Quartz Block
  • Pillar Quartz Block
  • Enchanted Book
New features in Minecraft Xbox 360 update 14
  • - Book recipe changed.
  • - Boats break Lily Pads, instead of Lily Pads breaking Boats.
  • - Pigs drop more Porkchops.
  • - Slimes spawn less in Superflat worlds.
  • - Creeper damage variable based on difficulty setting, more knockback.
  • - Fixed Endermen not opening their jaws.
  • - Added new Host Options for flying, invisibility and invulnerability for remote players.
  • - Added teleporting of players (using the player menu in-game).
  • - Furnace will return an empty bucket when fueled by a bucket of lava.
  • - Updated Bonus Chest content with more items.
  • - Added new tutorials to the Tutorial World for new items and features.
  • - Updated the positions of the Music Disc Chests in the Tutorial World.
  • - Updated all texture packs and mash-up packs with new TU14 additions.
  • - Changed the gray wool texture for City Texture Pack to be more like a road surface.
  • - Added new recipes for Smooth Sandstone and Chiseled Sandstone.
  • - Added new Mobs – Zombie Villagers.
  • - Added new terrain generation features – Desert Temples, Desert Villages, and Jungle Temples.
  • - Added Trading with villagers.
  • - Added Anvil interface.
  • - Added sideways log placement.
  • - Changed placement of half blocks and other blocks on half blocks.
  • - Changed placement of upside down stairs and slabs.
  • - Wooden Buttons and Wooden Pressure Plates can be activated with Arrows.
  • - Can dye leather armor.
  • - Can dye wolf collars.
  • - Can control riding a pig with a Carrot on a Stick.
  • - Added different villager professions.
  • - Villagers spawned from a spawn egg will have a random profession.
  • - Furnaces can use wooden tools as a fuel.
  • - Ice and Glass panes can be collected with silk touch enchanted tools.
  • - Nether mobs can spawn in the Overworld from Portals.
  • - Creepers and Spiders are aggressive towards the last player that hit them.
  • - Mobs in Creative mode become neutral again after a short period.
  • - Remove knockback when drowning.
  • - Doors being broken by zombies show damage.
  • - Ice melts in the Nether.
  • - Cauldrons fill up when out in the rain.
  • - Pistons take twice as long to update.
  • - Pig drops Saddle when killed (if has one).
  • - Sky color in The End changed.
  • - String can be placed (for Tripwires).
  • - Rain drips through leaves.
  • - Levers can be placed on the bottom of blocks.
  • - TNT does variable damage depending on difficulty setting.

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Finding your Friv game

The Friv game culture is something that has almost passed us by on Gametrender with a lot of our gaming coming in the form of IOS or Android, but every once in a while being a game reviewer you have to explore the roots of gaming culture and what really matters at the time. The friv gaming scene(frivolous games) is the post modern answer to Flash games. With the likes of Flappy Bird literally turning the idea of what makes a good game a concept without set boundaries friv gaming is putting the jeugosinto modern games.
Stepping back temporarily into the browser world we set out on a journey to see what happened to Flash gaming when it grew up and moved away from home.
It's not hard to find a dedicated site for friv gaming , although very hard to find one that seems totally trustworthy and dubiousness free.
A nice little site that we've come across is frivver, the user interface of the home screen is simplicity itself and projects not only a trustworthy harbour for online games , but certainly doesn't seem to be a bogus online site that is going to fill my PC with bitcoin mining Trojans!
There's a huge variety of games on the site, all presented in post stamp icon size rendering all the fun a click away. Naturally eyes are drawn to the familiar and a visit to the site for many will be worthwhile by the mere fact that it serves as a portal for a decent online version of Flappy Bird. More to the point when web surfing for these online friv games we were a little lazy and set off on the journey via iPad browser. We were stunned to find that the version of Flappy Birds on Frivver was actually playable on Ipad!


Digging a little deeper and postulating we guess that the site is a combination of HTML 5 and Java based Flash gaming. That's not to mislead you as we soon had to carry on our exploration via PC as a lot of games on the IPad , as expected, didn't load up. Although, a nice feature we found was that many of these games that had their roots on the AppStore would, if not playable in the Safari browser, have a handy link to the AppStore.
On a PC the world is the frivolous game of your choice, it's hard to put an accurate figure on it, but we've seen mention of over 700 decent games on this site. Personal favourites so far include a version of Minion Rush as well as a much needed "Kill Flappy Bird" game!
The site is ad supported but these aren't obtrusive and placed with some thought in mind. The easy to use interface quickly gets you to where you want to be and if you're stuck with your choice than a simple search or category search should and will turn up a playing session of whatever duration you wish. So go home or go Friv!

Supernauts Guide

Yet another MineCraft rip off or the biggest social build 'em up crafter of the year? Either way Supernauts is sure to capture a certain type of gamer's attention. The social aspect of the game is also being heavily pushed, so if you want to get a head start enjoy our
Supernauts Guide

If you're already a player then this little beginners guide might not teach you much new about Grand Cru's game, but we'll follow up with a complete Supernauts Walkthrough in the future, in the meantime here's your hints and tips :
How to move
No surprises here with a simple tap to move dynamic. However if your Spacenaut can't access an area than he can't go there.

Moving the Camera
No new tricks here with 2 finger rotation and pinch to zoom supported.
What is the Supernauts universe?
While just a fancy way of naming the games multiplayer, if the devs have their way it'll be the main game universe we occupy this year, access the Supernauts universe by Tapping on the rocket icon on the right-hand side of the screen, this will allow you to see other people's universes. If the multiplayer is as tightly synced as PC Minecraft or even the Blockheads, than this could definitely catch on.

What is SP
SP is the experience points that you gain in Supernauts. Get more SP by completing  Missions, collecting from Citizens, and trading goods. Naturally this SP is used for levelling up and unlocks.


Coins courtesy of Grand Cru
You've got to earn coins in this game to make various purchases, upgrades and trade blocks with the trader. Hopefully this virtual currency paywall won't limit your imagination.
How to earn coins:
Two ways are open to get coins, either complete missions or collect rent from inhabitants. 

 Finding more Gems in Supernauts
In traditional p2p dynamics expect the premium gem currency to be hard to find. Luckily unlike recent p2p efforts by EA(ahem, Dungeon Keeper hide your head in shame), this one has been thought through and the majority of items in game can be purchased with in game currency and gems used just to speed up build times etc. In the meantime if you'd prefer to spend your gem money on something more substantial we recommend a good E-store   http://www.topreplicashopping.com to buy great 1:1 grade Hermes handbags replica and AAA grade Swiss watches replica.
Block Behaviour 
 Blocks are graphically different  but generally have the same properties.
Accessing missions in Supernauts
Now it's time to earn coins and help out your fellow Spacenauts. These objectives can be found by Tapping on the rocket in your World.

What does the Zapper do?
In 1950's Raygun homage the Zapper is used to add and remove blocks in the world. Different Zappers can be selected from the in game wheel.

What are Makers used for?
These items will create materials for you out of space dust. They're used in conjunction with BOTS to convert resources to varying block types.

Decorations
Every decent crafting game has to have decorations, and so does this one , they add nothing except aesthetic appeal.


How do you expand your Supernauts Universe?
The life support cube should be your first port of call if you have expansionist ambitions, upgrading this will speed things up. Expanding more is just a question of purchasing new land from the in game shop and visiting the Block Market. In the meantime if you'd rather spend that gem money on something more substantial we recommend a good E-store http://www.topreplicashopping.com to buy great 1:1 grade Hermes handbags replica and AAA grade swiss watches replica.

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Advantages of Dual Lens Smartphone Cameras

Dual Lens cameras in smartphones could be the next big imaging tech to make it to our Smartphones. The HTC M8 is probably going to be the first phone with a dual camera lens. So what does HTC hope to achieve by having a dual lens?


Why dual lens Smartphone Cameras are a great idea
  • If you have two parallel lenses with their own sensors low-light performance is dramatically improved. One way this allows better low light performance on phones such as the HTC m8 is by clever software that matches the views of each lens and uses scene analysis to perform a reality check. Noise reduction in low light is dramatically improved by this feature.
  •  Two lens smartphone cameras allow for better depth analysis. 3D to you and me. Ignore what you know though as depth of field affects also allow for features such as increased image control, better control of image backgrounds-up to the point of blurring them out, enhanced AR and autofocus with a bigger boost of speed. 
  • Digital zoom could soon become an also ran technology if dual lens cameras take off. As each lens has a different focal lengths ( for example One  wide-angle lens and the other at 3x zoom). This will allow a new form of optical zom that does away with resolution degradation that traditional smartphone digital zoom experiences.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Exploring next gen entertainment

So next gen gaming is upon us,or at least those who can afford some very expensive luxury boy toys. To be honest we're still sitting on the fence when it comes to XBox One vs PS4 and not to mention SteamBox and what about saving up for an Oculus Rift? Still one area that remains very unexplored and really needs to be explored through next gen spectacles is entertainment, particularly music. New ways of consumption are upon us and to be honest, despite the wet dream of better graphics and 4k capability the music hub capabilities of the XBox One are slightly swaying us towards this device when coupled with its bundled next gen Kinect. It's really the enhanced voice actions of the next gen Kinect which are being used or should be used for next gen music. All it will take is some creative thought to use voice commands to access next gen music functions,for example Spotify could be permanently turned on. Just imagine the cross functional capabilities, for certain if you can tell the latest Lara Croft to draw her pistol or bow via voice you can certainly say music based terms and get an intelligently delivered music orientated device.

HTC's new way to listen to music

It's not just the CES that changes the way we look at technology,but Mobile World Congress is also a vast area for new tech to arise. Poor HTC is going to apparently looking to turn around its ailing fortunes by possibly conducting some interesting experiments.
One of those is going to be a new way to consume music, a bold experiment that is slowly starting to be leaked to the world. We're consulting as many sources as possible,in the tech,music and mobile world to find out all we can. 
This won't be like lugging around a zoom q3hd or even an iPod to create or listen to your favourite tunes. No, everyone in the tech world,HTC included,believes that wearable are the way forward. What they're going to offer is an HTC music bracelet that apparently doubles as a fitness tracker. Since Fitbit and Jawbone, current leaders in the fitness bracelet market have yet to produce a device that works for more than a week on a single battery charge and since the most commonly available devices only track fitness and don't touch on the music area, one wonders if the HTC music bracelet is actually real or just hype.

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Has WhatsApp charged me?

With many media sources being abuzz with Facebook's massive acquisition the man on the street is asking some prying questions. And really at the grassroots level a quick poll of work colleagues shows one simple fact: Nobody actually seems to have been charged by WhatsApp! Now that's an interesting take on WhatsApp's revenue model. Quite simply by avoiding the almost obligatory ad support and charging for the app in a roundabout way seems to have certainly contributed to WhatsApp's multi billion price tag .
Do you know WhatsApp charges?
Why many don't realise they're being charged is because of the age old adage: Read the small print! Your subscription to the app is charged just under a dollar after a year of using the service. So if you haven't yet reached your anniversary for registering, please don't be shocked when you see your 99 cents being credited to Facebook in the near future!

What's the best MusicId service?

I'm actually a little bit biased on the question as to which is the best music identification service. As the Sony backed Xperia Z is the current review phone (and personal phone) of choice ,I've been quite happy to use a lot of the bundled Sony apps with the phone. Their particular brand of Android has a lot of good music vibe going for it, as you'd expect from a company like Sony with a good music pedigree.
One of the bundled apps is the Gracenote powered MusicID which I've found to!be brilliant in locating most of the songs that I've flung it's way. On average using my home network I can get a return on a song Id in about ten seconds. UI wise the app fits the bill perfectly and has a lot of Google Play integration. Using more obscure devices such as a novation launchpad s makes for an interesting test which I can't quite say that MusicID matches up to. For non bundled music Id apps the stock favourites of Shazam and SoundHound also come in with strong music recognition pedigrees.