Archive for June, 2010
Well, well, well! It seems like I wasn’t talking to myself over the last few months and that you all were hanging on my every work like a bunch of salivating dogs around a wounded guinea pig. Well, I hate to say I told you so, but, I told you so. Hector: Badge of Carnage is pretty darn good isn’t it? It’s so good that we have even sent someone over to WWDC in San Francisco to bump uglies with the great and good of the Apple world and tell everyone across the pond about Hector.
In a happy coincide Hector has also been sent over to San Fran as part of a hearts and minds operation that the Metropolitan Police are running with the SFPD. Hector has been sent to California to police the streets of San Fran and some poor sod from the SFPD has been sent to Clappers Wreake to fill Hector’s boots for a week. I think I know who got the better deal there. Hector has been tasked with policing the WWDC so you can follow his progress on Twitter @diHector.
Things at WWDC seem to be going well. Hector was last seen wrestling Steve Jobs to the deck as he stepped over a crowd control rope at the queue for the Krispy Kremes. And Straandlooper are successfully spreading the word about Badge of Carnage to the uninitiated. I would start telling you all about all of the wonderful reviews that we have had over the last few days but there are just too many and I genuinely can’t be arsed. I will mention this one simply because it has the most uninspiring title I have ever heard:

And some other people also said that it was the greatest thing since they decided to put cheese in a can, but you don’t need me to tell you this. You are all big enough and ugly enough to find out how great Hector is for yourself. Just type it into Google, Twitter, FaceSlap or MyArse or whatever it is that you people do and stop relying on me to hold your hand.
But just in case there a few people still squatting in a ditch sticking berries up their nose and they don’t know what this Hector business is, click here to go to iTunes and see what all of the fuss is about.
Phew! I haven’t been this busy at work since I ordered that lorryload of paperclips. Ah, the memories. Well, since the launch of the Hector: Badge of Carnage game the world wide interweb has been awash with Hector activity. The last time their was this much Hector activity online was when some greasy young oik caught Hector urinating over the statue in the town square, filmed it and stuck it up on YouTube. He had some job explaining that one to Meeks, but he passed it off as a new policing technique, where he was actually sweeping the place for forensic clues for a case he was working on. Unsurprisingly Meeks bought it and had the video pulled from YouTube protecting Hector’s modesty, at least for the time being.
Anyway, as I was saying there has been plenty of chat about Hector online and PocketGamer – the leading online destination for mobile games – has just got in on the act posting the article below.

Click on the image to go to PocketGamer and read what they have to say about the game.
Or click here to go to iTunes to have a look at the game for yourself. Go on! You know you want to. We’ll talk about you behind your back if you don’t. And I can tell. I have Google Analytics. I can even tell you what you had for breakfast. Yes, that’s right Josh in Darlington. Kippers. Shame on you.
The launch of the second most anticipated game of 2010 – Hector: Badge of Carnage – hasn’t gone unnoticed in the weird and wonderful world of the t’interweb. The good folks over at Touch Arcade have salivating like the game hungry dogs that they are over the launch and have been posting their little hearts out over the last few days.

Click on the image above to go over to the forum and see what the world has been saying about the game. When Hector stumbled home from the Broken Arms late last night even logged on to see what was going on and lobbed in a free promo code for one lucky reader. A bit out of character for the big man, but then I did tell him not to mix Peach Schnapps with Jägermeister so he only has himself to blame. Don’t expect any interactions with him this morning as he is currently talking on the old porcelain telephone and it looks like it will be a long conversation.
If you want to check out the Hector game for yourself you can got to iTunes now and download it for yourself. Just tell them I sent you.