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I have lost my letter for going to Bloomberg headquarters please may you give me a new one

Teen Tech Day By Sainaath Vivekanantha

On Tuesday 1st December 2015

10 students of riddlesdown collegieate went to the copper box arena


Tech Teen Ciry


The copper box area


We explored lots of tings and it was amazing



Gosh  someone won a tablet


Our school won  a firetrap robot and a 10 pound gift voucher , Bloomberg tv


This was a fun activivty better than schoool subject

Teen Tech At the Copper Box Arena with Riddlesdown's Digital Leaders!

On Tuesday 1st December, the Digital Leaders of Riddlesdown Collegiate attended Teen Tech at the Copper Box Arena (the venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics & 2012 Summer Paralympics).

The event lasted the whole day and we enjoyed it very much and also learned a lot of cool things. First, we did the DIY Your Own Invention Challenge, for this we had to make an invention that would improve the safety or standard of living. We chose to make a kitchen automation system that would enable your hob, oven, microwave or any other kitchen appliance that you can think of to be controlled by a smartphone, tablet and website. After making the designs and circuit diagrams & filling out some sheets on who the product targeted, how it looked, etc, we had to present our work in the form of a product pitch while being judged on our idea & our creativity. We did win one award & it was very fun to do.

After this we went on to visit some stands put up by different companies in the science & technology sector. We visited the stands of Fire Tech, Bloomberg, National Rail, and a few other companies as well.

The experience at Bloomberg was especially fun, we had to function as a human computer working in a group to sort a bunch of tweets into:

1. the subject of the tweet (what movie it was about)
2. the adjective(s) used to describe the movie (good or bad)

and then we had to rate the movie as good or bad and determine which movie was the best. We also had to present our results and we chose to do it in a graphical form, by counting the number of good words and placing them on a bar graph. We had to complete this task in 10 minutes, so it was quite a tough challenge. We managed to cover 43 tweets. Not the highest (49) but certainly a lot.

Then we broke out to visit stands of our choice, after which we headed for lunch. There were many different companies presenting & there was a robots stand, which had RoboThespian and NAO  (pronounced "now") showing off their skills to the audience.

At another stand we saw there were speakers producing directed sound (this allows us to focus sound at exactly one point and allow the target to hear the sound only in that specific area) by means of using ultrasonic sound waves (wavelength at ~20 kHz) to send sound & then our ear amazingly demodulates these high frequencies to hear whatever is being played on the speakers, without the person next to us being able to hear it!
They also had an invisibility cloak, which reflected blue light off a grey cloth (the cloak), then the computer removed all that was blue in the picture (including the Aquila students' ties!).

There were many other such stands and although we didn't have time to visit all of them, it was very exciting!

At the end of the day, there was a prize distribution:

Due to our presentation & amount of tweets scanned our team won a prize from Bloomberg and that was...
A trip to Bloomberg's headquarters!! We get to visit Bloomberg sometime soon & get a view of their internal workings, and possibly even get a coding tutorial! :-)

We enjoyed the day at Teen Tech City in London very much and we hope to go again, sometime.

-Chaitanya K

On Tuesday 1st December, Riddlesdowns Digital Leaders attended Teen Tech at the Copper Box Arena in the Olympic Park

2015-2016 Digitial Leaders are back!

code.org And Make Your Own Flappy Bird

Super Smash Bros. 3DS Demo

After playing around and experimenting with the demo, I decided to write up a article about it. It features 3 Veteran fighters (Mario, Pikachu and Link) and 2 Newcomers (Animal Crossing Villager and Mega Man) who fight on the classic Battlefield stage. This demo has readied me for the full version, getting a feel of the controls and gameplay, seeing how this legendary franchise will play on a handheld. This demo has made me trust the 3DS version even more than I already did, the stereoscopic graphics look fine and shiny, comparable to the Wii U's HD display. Playing it showed me what the graphics looked like as images and YouTube videos or Twitch streams made them look blurrier and lesser than actuality since the official site would always show off more Wii U screenshots trying to undermine the 3DS truly great graphics. Despite originally finding the 60 FPS a lot faster than Brawl, I agree that is it is suited to that speed and works perfectly for competitive play.

This demo has psyched me even more for the October 3rd full release and shown me a glimpse of just how good Sakurai's masterpiece will be.

Download the European demo from the Nintendo 3DS eShop via this QR code:

App Review: Plague Inc.

Plague Inc. is a strategy game for iOS and Android in which you attempt to infect a plague across the world, there are 3 difficulty modes: Causal, Normal and Brutal. You can evolve your plague by improving how dangerous the symptoms are, the different forms of transmission and the abilities of the plague, this is done with DNA points, acquired when pop red and orange DNA bubbles. You must also stop the cure before they eliminate your plague, you can make your plague genetically hardened and drug resistant in the Abilities section to prevent the speed of global cure rate and by popping blue cure bubbles. They are different types of plagues, some easier than others as they infect differently and have different weaknesses. Humorously you can name your plague anything (I called mine Cyrus and Bieber as I treat them as musical plagues!). You begin in a chosen country, some easier than others dependant on real-life population, wealth and climate. Also there are several in-app purchases to upgrade your playing experience.

Tips: Begin in China as it is the most populous country and eliminates the most of the world.
Begin with simple evolution, then more complex.

Happy infecting ! (• ◡•) (❍ᴥ❍ʋ) (﹡︠﹏ु﹡︡)
Download: iOS: http://tinyurl.com/PlagueInciOS Android: http://tinyurl.com/PlagueIncAndroid

2048 Review

2048 is a really fun app that you can download on many devices. It is a game where you have to double numbers in a 4 by 4 square until you reach 2048, but the numbers all move when you swipe one way, making it very difficult but adding to the addictiveness of the game. It is very fun and you will definitely waste many hours a day trying to reach 2048 or trying to at least beat a friend or a family member. The game is good for maths and strategic/puzzle skills.

Happy doubling! Jacob Farrington :)

App Review: Domino's Pizza Maker

Domino's Pizza Maker is a free app exclusively for iPad devices only, in which you become a employee at Domino's Pizza and master each specific stage within pizza making, some simple, others irritating and tedious gameplay. There is a free-roam in which you create of any size, shape or style. (I created a Pac-Man pizza and even a sauceless and cheeseless pizza!) The gameplay can become tedious and is more enjoyably played on short intervals and occasional as 5-minute silliness, but is engrossing towards younger children, which could viewed both positive and negative as a "bit of fun" or a commercial source to child obesity. You can also place a real-life delivery order from the app, which is quick and easy.
Download: http://tinyurl.com/DominosPizzaGame

My employee ID card.

Tomodachi Life: Green Frog and Ham

On the 9th of June 2014, one of the most long-awaited fictional weddings  finally took place in Tomodachi Life!? The wedding of... Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy! They now live in a house as well as constant revisits to the apartment complex and meeting new friends. After they had a fitting relaxing honeymoon in America.

Tomodachi Life Day 2: The Madness Continues

With more humorous rap battles, sing-songs and heartbreaks, the island is only growing itself into a uncontrollable craziness. With added Miis, the Mario Brothers made their beginnings in the music industry, as they took to the stage in a rapping debut, esteemed professor Mario made a news-worthy discovery of Body Roller Cleaners. Plus Ciaran and Calum's Hawaiian vacation.

The Mario Bros. awesome rapping debut

The discovery of body roll cleaners

Peach on a beach (RYHME!)  

More raps... 

In Hawaii

Treasure your Game Boy, it's highly useful. 

I've done a summary of 2 days of my Miis' wacky lives, so from now on I'll only do a Tomodachi life post if important e.g. wedding occurs or crazier than Japanese insanity

Calum's Tomodachi Life Journal: Day 1

The bizarreness has only just began on Candy Apple Island. Friendships growing, freakish dreams and a beautiful love ballad by Peach and Mario and humorous rap battles. I have opened Supermarket, Concert Hall, Interiors, Clothes and Hats. Friendships and love are developing in Mario and Peach, hopefully. I'm best friends with Ciaran Brennan, my best friend in real life already! Luffy loved his straw hat and I loved pizza (one my favourite foods in real life!) !!! It is luck and coincidence or does this game have a knowledge of real life?!

Peach and Mario's beautiful love ballad 

A word chain battle of food. Ciaran Brennan vs Marceline 

Luffy wearing his iconic red-banded straw hat 

Mario's oddball dream of being a robotic superhero  

Peach is having a nightmare! About my hideous face!

My Miis 

Calum MacDonald

Ciaran Brennan (My best friend, a Phoenix student in 8AJV)

Mario

Peach 

Luffy (One Piece)

Marceline The Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)

I will soon add Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy, Luigi and Jacob Farrington (a awesome fellow Digital Leader)

Buy: http://www.game.co.uk/en/tomodachi-life-283577

Goat Simulator - New Update

The always favorite Goat simulator has got a new update that I have found REALLY improves the gameplay,
For my Old review on Goat simulator click here
For Calum's review of the Shrek mod click here

Just Because

The New update of Goat Simulator have brought on some amazing new features as well as a new map.

The Great new Features:

• New local split screen multiplayer allowing you to play goat sim with more then 1 person, more action and more damage.
• New map - which includes a fairground, try and get on to the rollercoaster and hold on.
• Humans have got better API - they can now speak and react to you, they can sit down on bench and hide and run away from you if you are wrecking things. They are still glitchy if you are just charging and destroying everything in your path, then you just see in the distance a human just falling over a park bench, it is hilarious.
• More goats added
• More achievements
• You can now parkour and run up walls which is super fun and makes it easier to get to certain spots, this goat has definitely got super goat powers.
• You can now ride bikes as well as skateboards although I have found it super hard to control, I am sure it will get easier with practice.
• Humans can now ride goats! It's goat madness!
• You can now buy hats with money.
• New "more realistic" water, you now just flop around while trying to get out.
• New sound effects
• New minecraft add on, makes you able to place blocks!

This game has some other features although I just put in the best.
The Coffee Stain Studio full patch notes Click here to see they are amazing!

Geography Website Review

Revision Review: Skoool

Skoool is a e-learning website made by LGFL in association with Smartech and Intel consisting of Maths and 3 sciences which are then separated into sub-categories. It has different ways to learn: step-by-step guides explained simply by animated diagrams and text read by a voice-synthesised, American accent. Interactive activities to experiment with scientific forces, nature and technology.

Also quizzes to test your learnt knowledge.

Site-
http://www.skoool.co.uk

EAL/ESL Review

English is known as the hardest language if you are not of English-speaking origin with many complex grammar rules and spellings. So prepare to learn the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world with a selection of useful and helpful websites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/-Definitive and essential guide from BBC World Service.
http://www.rong-chang.com/  - Created by a Chinese doctorate Ron-Chang Lee with a PHD in English Language, very useful.
http://a4esl.org - has bilingual translations of languages from across the globe, useful for any ESL student for any country.
Enjoy! Apprécier! Tanoshimu! Disfrutar! Xiǎngshòu! Jeulgyeo! سے لطف اندوز! 

InFamous Second son

This is a game about a person named Desmond who gets super powers and uncovers a that the leader of a Anti "Bio-terrorist" group.

EAL / ESL Websites

English is a very hard language to learn, but you'll get the hang of it eventually! Try these websites to help you learn English:

• learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
• www.learnenglish.org.uk
• englishgrammar.org

Have fun learning English

Jacob:)

SEN Website Review

SEN stands for Special Educational Needs. This means that people need certain things to help them progress in their education. The website that I found ( www.senteacher.org ) gives resources to help SEN pupils to learn. It is for many different types of SEN. I could not find many general websites for SEN but you can find ones for separate forms. Also, try this quiz about what type of learner you are: http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/module1/2.shtml

Jacob :)

SEN Review: What Type Of Learner Are You?

These questionnaires are used to discover the way you learn: visually, auditory (listening) or kinaesthetically (movement). They ask a variety of questions from whether you like reading textbooks to gather information or watching/drawing videos and diagrams or even the way you tackle the building of Lego models by explanation (auditory), simply feeling the structure and shape of the bricks to make it fit together (kinaesthetic) and following the packets' images and diagrams (visual). The websites may also feature a guide on how to effectively use your preferred learning style as with my favourite Brainboxx, they are also differing versions from Edutopia and the Discovery Channel.
Sites-: http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/a3_aspects/pages/vak_quest.htm
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/what-type-of-learner-are-you-quiz.htm

Revision

I do not have any affiliation with the brands mentioned in this post :D


I, like many other Year 11's, have been revising over the last few months, so I thought I would share some of my revision tips. This is a list, in no particular order, of any techniques or websites I have found useful while revising. this is just what i have found helpful there are hundreds of ways to revise, so find what works for you and stick at it.

• Mind maps
• Mind maps are a great way to split up larger topics into bitesize chunks, they're also useful for finding the most important parts of a topic and visualise how topics link together. I've found them useful because I like visualising how everything links together.
• A useful website for creating mind maps, flash cards, notes and more, you can look at others revision material or show your own to the world; if you and a few friends start to use it you can collaborate on material or easily look at their revision and help keep each other on track.
  https://www.examtime.com/
• Condensing notes
• Turning a term of work into two or three pages can be useful for deciding which parts of a topic are important, it also provides a great refresher of things you may have forgotten and will provide concise useful revsion nearer your exams.
• Try to cover one topic in a session, if it takes you more than 30 mins for 1 topic  you're doing something wrong. It is helpful to write up all these notes into a different lined notepad/excercise book, for easy reference.
• Past Papers
• Just DO past papers, get a feel for what the examiner wants, find topics you don't know so well and practice your exam technique. They are a great way of revising but don't waste them, there are only so many with the correct specification(what you've been learning), so save some for nearer the exam, but do ones you've already done twice just a month apart, this will help you focus in on what content you need to revise further, and will help your exam technique.
• To find past papers search for " past papers"
• If you can't find any for your tier or that you haven't done do the foundation papers, the questions are asked in the same style and are different from the higher paper from the same year, so will help your exam technique and will also help you find topics you need more revsion on.
• Music
• Any revision needs some good music to prevent you becoming bored so find some music you like, turn it up and get down to business.
• Spotify is a great free way to listen to music, works well and saves time compared to youtube downloader, it's also legal!
• Food
• If you're revising you need some snacks to keep you on the go, save some of those easter eggs for your revsion or sign up for something like Graze, they provide nutritious snacks straight to your door for you to dive into.

I hope these tips help you with your revision so,

Good Luck!

Website Review: Pixar Theory.com plus hidden Pixar Easter eggs

Pixar Theory is a website created by Pixar expert Jon Negroni which shows how every character from the popular movies exist in one universe with a in chronological order in the Pixar universe and film production order for our universe. It highlights intellectually bizarre ideas about the movies such as Boo, the innocent little child from Monsters Inc. is time traveller and found out wood was a primary source of energy all along  (The dimension-travelling doors in Monsters Inc. are made of wood, The Wood in A Bugs' Life is the source of Flik's ingenuity and wood helped Carl's house in Up) The Pixar Universe's timeline begin with Brave in the 14th and 15th century to Monsters Inc. in 4500-5000 AD. It is definite, unmissable visit for any Pixar, Disney or film fanatic.
Site-http://www.pixartheory.com

In discovering this website I also discovered some awesome hidden Pixar Easter eggs, some just pure genius and others my favourites:

The iCar from 2008's Cars, a reference to Apple and the late former Pixar CEO and Apple Inc. co-creator Steve Jobs. Complete with iconic Apple logo and 84 number (1984 was the year, the first Apple Mac computer was released)

On Andy's wall in Toy Story 3 pinned up is a postcard by Carl and his wife Ellie from Up

Here in Toy Story 3 is a Totoro plush from Japanese animation My Neighbour Totoro from Studio Ghibli.

Sulley carving in Brave which agrees with a theory on how Boo is/or related to the evil witch in Brave

For more info on Pixar hidden secrets and Easter eggs and theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_film_references

http://jonnegroni.com

Game

Recently on my iPad I downloaded a really cool game called running Fred. If I were you I would get it as it is free.
http://www.appsparadise.it/wordpress/p3268/

Goodbye and Good Luck

Dear Digital Leaders,

I am so honoured to have worked with such a talented and passionate group of young people over the last year.  You are all so special in your own ways.  I wish you all the best in your digital endeavours and will be watching with interest to see how you develop.

Keep being amazing.

Ms F

Goat Simulator: Shrek Mod

For the basics and the fun stuff you should definitely do read Heidi's post about Goat Simulator here it is a great overview of the game. I will comment specifically on the Shrek modification.

Goat Simulator is a simulation PC game where you play as a goat, recently they updated the game fixing bugs and glitches, but also added the option to play as your favourite animated ogre Shrek! Previously they have been demon goats, angel goat (with hovering power!) and even Yoshi goats. Now here's Shrek, who has detailed and accurate design making him very authentic and awesome, although is programmed in the goat position like all the characters so doesn't stand upright. Here's my top ten list of insanity to play with the Shrek character modification:
1. Play Flappy Goat as Shrek and observe his disgusting green bottom as you play
2. Get hit by a car and break and glitch his body
3. Destroy the environment by causing freaky vortexes
4. Cause a giant Katamari-style ball of the objects around you
5. Fall from the sky and watch Shrek die from the gigantic pressure
6. Bounce on a trampoline
7. Become King of the GOATS as SHREK!!!!
8. Complete every achievement
9. Crash a party
10. Make goat noises as Shrek!

Download Shrek Mod: http://tinyurl.com/ShrekGS

Download Game: http://tinyurl.com/m3dv3so

Videos of Shrek Mod in-game:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ZSNVOvFq0 - Basic overview and gameplay of Shrek Mod
http://tinyurl.com/ShrekGSPewDiePie - Top YouTuber PewDiePie provides comedic commentary as he hilariously plays as the Shrek Mod in Goat Simulator (CAUTION: Contains profanity/swearing) 

Goat Simulator

Yes you heard the tittle right, I am about to do a review on the newly released (1st April) Goat Simulator.
In Goat Sim you get too be a goat.... So just from that why wouldn't you want to get it.

Not actual Game as all the picture are copyrighted

The stupid fun game has to be said to have many bugs, but the produces Coffee Stain Studio say they are going to keep them in and only fix the game breaking bugs, as they make the game hilarious to play.
The producers also say on there website that you should really not buy the game and instead just buy a pile of bricks or maybe a real goat instead.
What the game is basically you get to be a goat and rampage a town while getting a load of random points for doing different stunts as well as a load of achievement for doing funny/crazy stuff to.
This game is really good for if you just had a stressful day, you can just go home and log on and play Goat sim for a few hours.

Something's you should definitely try to do : (I wont tell you how to do them experiment yourself.)
1) Go Hang-Gliding
2) Go to the low gravity testing facility
3) Unlock tall Goat
4) Become the King of the goats.
5) Play Flappy Goat
6) Find all 27 goat statues

Many say this should be Game of the year 2014

Links to YouTubers playing:
The Game and youtubers contain swearing especially the youtubers
Yogscast Simon and Lewis
Toby Games
Pewdiepie

I would like to say a big thank you to Miss Findlater for putting together the Digital leaders and all the work you have put into it, you will be missed but good luck at you new school :D

Yoshi's New Island 3DS Review

Yoshi's New Island is the sequel to the SNES classic, it may bring a shining feeling of nostalgia for those growing up in this pre-modern Mario era of 1995 (probably just seen Toy Story , for the first time!) and smiling as discover their favourite green, adorable anthropomorphic dinosaur is the titular character, and playing it addictively.  For most 25-year old 3DS owners, memories will flourish incorporating the original game mechanics and pastel, chalkboard art and music with a modern twist of 3D graphics and animation and remixed tunes from the GameBoy version, makes it very appealing for the children of the noughties and 2010s. The gameplay increases in challenge as you go through the levels although unlike Super Mario, the levels are not timed, so are more paced and require more concentration. Another modern twist is the ability for Yoshi to transform into hot air balloon or mine cart etc. in amusing mini-games to acquire more coins.  The objective is the same as Yoshi is Baby Mario's protective guardian as he attempts to rescue Baby Luigi and defeat Kamek, the magical koopa, as  you squeal "glums" and "yahoos" and swallowing enemies and discreetly defecated them as useful little eggs. With collectibles to find, replaying the levels is still enjoyable with no tediousness, just the challenge of the level and cuteness and brilliance of Yoshi repeated. Overall I ensure you won't be frying this nostalgic "eggy" gem. 

91% GOLD AWARD

Buy the game: 

http://tinyurl.com/Yoshi3DS

Art Review: Parodies of Great Works

Just by simply googling 'Art Parody' or 'Pop Culture Art Parodies' or putting a franchise name e.g. Simpsons or Lego or Muppets then 'Art Parody' into Google you find some pretty impressive and hilarious parodies of famous artwork such as The Scream, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper even Andy Warhol parodies. Featured below are just some of my many favourites, tell me your preference in the comment section!: 

ART - Lazy Paint

Lazy Paint is a app for Tablet,but you can still get in on some computer app stores.
The lazy paint slogan is "No Talent, No Problem"  as it is very easy to create a piece of art without very little effort.
To start of with You upload a picture that you have already taken of your self or something else e.g. landscapes, animals...
You can choose how much your background shows through as well as different styles of paintbrush e.g. Splat, Spray Can, Scribble, Flowers, Pointillist.
Using all these tools can make you pictures look like amazing Paintings, which you could be pound of.

Click here to look at the Download Page!

Art Review: Major Cities Without Light Pollution

On the website I am going to review, are stunning interpretations by a pioneering French photographer called Thierry Cohen about what major cities would look like without light pollution, so billions of stars and the entrances of galaxies are visible so these first-class cities become even more attractive. The list of cities are: New York, Rio De Janeiro, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Paris and São Paulo. Unfortunately for Britons, there's no depiction of London, but with the shiny beauties at differing angles and areas of the cities, this website is ensured to leave you "starry-eyed", no matter the circumstances!

An awesome abundance of stars shining stunningly in terrific Tokyo 

Site-http://www.danzigergallery.com/artists/thierry-cohen/



Alas, I will be absent at Digital Leaders this week, so I wish Ms Findlater, the best of luck at her new job :) :) Goodbye :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Sports Review: Sumo Wrestling

Sumo Wrestling is uncommon sport in most countries, but is the national and hugely popular sport in The Land of The Rising Sun aka Japan!. It is most watched programme on Japanese TV according to viewing figures apart from anime. Here's a few websites which detail the basics of Sumo Wrestling: http://www.sumotalk.com/rules.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/sumo/sumo01.html
http://www.sumo.or.jp/pdf/en/sumo_introduction.pdf
http://www.sumo.or.jp
http://japanese.lingualift.com/blog/what-sumo-eat-wrestlers-diet/
For those more reluctant encyclopaedia/websites learners here's a few videos, both entertaining and humorous:
http://tinyurl.com/SumoNatGeo
http://tinyurl.com/SumoNatGeo2
http://tinyurl.com/SumoTakeshi'sCastle
http://tinyurl.com/SumoSmartBeepAd
http://tinyurl.com/SumoPepsiAd

Plus a hilarious sumo GIF: http://tinyurl.com/FunnySumoGIF !!!!!!!!!!!

Barcelona Football Team

This website is really good because it has lots of information about Barcelona football team. It doesn't only have information about Barcelona, it also has information about other football team.
Here is a the URL for the website http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/club=50080/domestic/

History of Korea

I have recently found this website about Korea (an amazing country)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea


check it out to find out about korea

both korea flags

Sport

this is a website that is all about Chelsea fc


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/Chelsea



You should check this out to know about Chelsea



Thief

I am going to Review the game Thief. It is a stealth based stealing game. The age rating is 16+. the main character is called Garret he is a master thief and has to help from a female thief (I forgot her name)

 
By   SamShackleton

Slave abolition website

I have found a Slave abolition website called "The Abolition Project" it has loads of info from "what is slavery?" to " Abolitionists" It is a good website for Y8's doing The Slave Trade. Here is the URL for this website: http://abolition.e2bn.org/index.php

By Sam Shackleton

Gaming Review: Minion Rush

Minion Rush is a free game for iOS and Android and Windows Phone devices in which you run along collecting items (bananas and Bapples in this case) as a comedic banana-shaped minion from the Despicable Me franchise. It has been defined as "Temple Run meets Despicable Me" expect with humour, minions and running across iconic locations from the movies such as Gru's Lab and El Macho's Lair. The objective is to jump, slide and evade through and past ledges and objects that appear for long as possible. Game over occurs when your yellow one-eyed homunculi bumps into a obstacle or falls over a ledge. A humorous aspect of the game is the ability to dress up the minions in idiotic,but playful costumes such as a referee or baby, which increase the capabilities of power-ups.

 You can also collect a daily reward by finding 3 hidden Bapples (Minionese for apple) in different zones, which can unlock new character costumes or stashes of bananas and Gru tokens. The freemium aspect is the only true disappointment as certain items and costumes are only available through paying real-life currency to buy a stockpile of virtual currency to acquire these, although they are not a necessity and only improve the gameplay very slightly, these are only embedded since this is a pleasant ad-free game and only option for the greedy developers to make money. I will also mention the tediousness of the game as the environment/visuals of areas may change, but the gameplay/content is very similar, as with most running games, although with frequent/monthly updates, with new zones or mini-games and extras such as banana-ridden secret areas or seasonal themes (e.g. Christmas Gru's Lab and Halloween Residential Area) the developers find differing ways to keep you entertained.

Download the game: iOS: http://tinyurl.com/MinionRushiOS 
 Android: http://tinyurl.com/MinionRushAndroid Windows: http://tinyurl.com/MinionRushWindows

Screenshot of  my own minion in Gru's Lab.

History Review: Japanese history

Here are a frenzy of recommended websites which showcase information on Japanese history of samurai, ninjas and video games and much more!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~malokofs/SCA/Persona/History/samurai.html
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2127.html
http://www.history.com/topics/samurai-and-bushido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2295.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario
http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mario_history.shtml
http://www.mariowiki.com/mario#History
http://mario.ign.com
http://classicgames.about.com/od/consoleandhandheldgames/p/Super-Mario-Bros-The-Game-That-Saved-Video-Games.htm
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/History_of_Pokémon
http://mashable.com/2013/10/08/pokemon-history/
http://www.gamesradar.com/history-pokemon-box-art/
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