The Plucky Programmer

After a year long stint with www.speedhost.in, akshatb.com is now moving to a new webhost (and domain registrar), GoDaddy.com. It will take a few days to fully come in effect, but the gears are now in motion. Though the previous host delivered what it promised and was only slightly cheaper, the plan shackled the website under a monthly and daily bandwidth cap, which when exceeded prevented the website from being  [ Read More ]

We’ve all heard of weird Japanese games, but they continue to surprise us even now. And this time, when its coming from Sega, it did cause my head to turn. The game called “Toirettsu” is a word play on “toy”, “let’s” and “toilets”. As the Sega Toys website points out, “You’re able to game with pee!” (Translated) The “game” is actually an amalgamation of various minigames, which I will not  [ Read More ]

I have been gaming a bit lately, and I have seen that many-a-times there are these nagging voices in my head that keep saying, “this simply cannot happen”. In a normal shooter or action game, you manage to kill atleast a 1000 enemies (humans, chimera, assorted bosses) in one play through, controlling usually only one lone character blessed with superpowers, super weapons or just really big balls. Infact, assuming the godlike  [ Read More ]