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Jul
30
Your DNA… in space!
Filed Under PC, Random | Leave a Comment
NCSoft announced today that they’d be immortalising video gamers by launching a so-called “Immortality Drive”, a time capsule containing the digitised DNA of selected Tabula Rasa players – along with copies of their in-game characters.
To make the project slightly less geeky, the capsule will also contain some of “humanity’s greatest achievements”. NCSoft are inviting everyone [...]
Jul
29
SSD? Super Silly Dinosaurs?
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Strangely enough… no!
SSD – that is, Solid State Drives – will be the next big computing revolution, I think. For many years you’ve probably gotten used to having a handy USB storage stick that you can carry your documents around on – but there’s slowly been a turn towards using larger amounts of flash storage [...]
Jul
24
Another level 70
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Finally managed to get my hunter, Mirranda, to level 70 in World of Warcraft Woohoo! Next target, if I get chance before Wrath of the Lich King comes out, will be a druid.
Have to say that I’m starting to prefer playing hunter over my mage any day of the week. Less downtime is [...]
Jul
21
The Wordpress upgrade went smoothly, but it’s left a few rough edges on the template which I’ll have to fix (probably next weekend). Specifically, the CSS styles for image captions are missing so they look a bit rough Posts will probably be a bit light on images in the meantime, so no more [...]
Jul
18
I did get the latest Millenipede teaser ready yesterday, but after receiving literally some emails relating to the 1.2 beta I got entirely sidetracked and forgot to post it
So here it is:
Mmmmm. Nice pixels But I wonder what those strange icons that have appeared on the status bar mean? And how on [...]
Jul
16
Clear your calendars…
Filed Under Competitions, Free, Indie, Projects, Utilities, Zolyx | 1 Comment
…because Retro Remakes have just announced that there’s going to be an official RR 2008 Competition later this year! Excellent news, as there’s always a healthy list of entries, and the prizes are sure to be an incentive (though personally I don’t care about that as I wouldn’t know how to use half of them!). [...]
Jul
14
The dwarves are back
Filed Under Free, Indie, Mac, PC | Leave a Comment
The well-oiled coding machine that is Tarn Adams and Bay 12 Games have released a major update to Dwarf Fortress, the most detailed ASCII game in existence anywhere in the world. Yay!
What’s new? Erm, well now, where to start… that’s a tricky question when you’ve got a five month list of tweaks, [...]
Jul
12
C’mon ref! Are you blind?
Filed Under Funny, Random | Leave a Comment
Not blind, just drunk.
Perhaps it was Sergei Shmolik’s first big match and he’d had a few to calm the nerves beforehand…
Oh dear. Someone give the poor fellow another drink!
(Source: BBC News)
Jul
12
Flagship Studios in trouble?
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This would be a great shame if it were true.
Speculation and confusion is running riot through the forums for Hellgate London and Mythos at the moment, as you can see here and here. Many sites are reporting that software house Flagship Studios has seen major job losses and that the company no longer holds the [...]
Jul
9
Wall of text alert! Don’t panic!
After three weeks of running the site hasn’t really moved forward by much – the place is still as disorganised as ever Sure, there’s been me blathering on more than usual with occasionally interesting outbursts and regular highlights of tidbits taken from the cutting edge of [...]