Pokemon Black 2 & Pokemon White 2

Hey Everyone,

So Nintendo and Pokemon have announced that two new games are set to be released later this year (Around Fall in the USA and approximately September/October in the UK).

The new games return to the Unova region and are based around the pokemon Kyurem and its different forms (Hence the need for two games). It is unknown whether Team Plasma, Cherin or Bianca are making a return.

I will however be writing a full review of the game within days of its release, so never fear you will be kept afloat of the situation.

Until next time.

Windows 8 CPE & DPE(Consumer Preview Edition & Developer Preview Edition)

Ok, so I guess you all have heard about the new releases of Windows 8, they're most likely beta editions since they are marked as evaluation builds but they're pretty nifty as that at the moment.

However I have to be honest I don't really like it.

First off, the sign in method, why oh why is it nesscessary to use Windows Live as signing in method, I don't want my username attributed with my Live ID, Normally I'd choose something normal like Admin, but no! Windows want it to use my Windows Live Name.

Secondly The task manager, while I love the performance tab and network tab, what the heck is going on with the processes and applications tab. Its hideous, as a Windows veteran I am much more keen with the old version that shows you the process name and the value of memory taken in K.

Third and finally, I have been hearing rumours of a 14 second boot up speed, suffice it to say i ran it on
AMD Phenom ii x4 @ 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB SATA HDD, Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 and I got a boot time of 45 seconds to login and a total of 55 seconds to actual "desktop".
So a lot of tinkering there to get it to a 14 second boot.


So Microsoft, I think there may be cause for a few tweaks, and I honestlty hope that the Windows Live Authenticaton (Linking accounts) is only a beta feature. Others I'm sticking with 7 & XP Pro.