By Craig Lloyd on Apr 9th, 2009 at 12:15PM
A Russian man set out to do what no man has done before. According to EnglishRussia.com, it took this determined Russian 18 days to build a completely custom Wall-E case mod. He even included a convenient worklog so that others can follow in his footsteps.
By Tim Hage on Apr 8th, 2009 at 6:39PM
When I was contacted by the developer of Faerie Solitaire, I was unconvinced that I wanted to review it. From the videos he had sent me, it looked great and had a very unique take on the classic game, but I was still unsure if I would have much to say about such a game. I had doubt that it would be able to keep my interest. Luckily, I decided to accept the review offer and here I am, reminding myself once again that I should stop underestimating indie games.
By Tim Hage on Apr 7th, 2009 at 1:20PM
Konami, most famous for the Metal Gear Solid series, has announced their newest project, Six Days in Fallujah, a third-person shooter ‘realistically based’ on USA’s invasion of the Iraqi city. As the name suggests, the game’s story unfolds throughout the six days the soldiers spend in Fallujah. The game is to be developed by Atomic Games, although they have not done anything recently. Stay tuned.
By Tim Hage on Apr 7th, 2009 at 1:18PM
John Romero, developer of DOOM, has made a post on his blog with a (roughly) 30-minute video of ID Software back when they where developing DOOM. The first half is quite interesting, but it’s not until they show a demo of an early build of DOOM, long before the public were to see it. That is when it gets very interesting. To hear them talking about the graphical enhancements and the gameplay elements that they had built into this game is something special. To hear the passion and excitement in their voices is really captivating. If only we could get this excited about current games.
By Craig Lloyd on Apr 7th, 2009 at 1:10PM
Extreme Makeover: Intel Edition should be the new TV hit series after the company unveiled new logo designs for the Core i7, Core 2, Centrino, Atom, Celeron, and Pentium processor lines. The Xeon processor will get a new logo at a later date. Intel has also implemented a new star rating system for their CPUs, with one star being the lowest performance and five stars the highest.
Let us know what you think about the logos.
By Craig Lloyd on Apr 7th, 2009 at 12:21AM
Who here was infected or know someone that was infected by the Conficker virus? I saw no trace of it either.
It’s now been almost a week since the Conficker threat “officially” launched on April Fool’s Day. To what we know, the catastrophic digital threat was nothing but an exaggeration that was beaten to death. If it was, in fact, an actual threat, no one really knows what its capabilities are. It could very well be just a normal virus that over 3 million computers get infected with each day. Whatever its potential may be, the internet and its users are still alive and well.
By any means, it never hurts to update your anti-virus, just in case serious karma sets in.
Feel free to share your short silly rants as well.
By Craig Lloyd on Apr 6th, 2009 at 6:53PM
A young software engineer was killed in a mysterious computer blast at his home in Velachery, India late last Friday. The incident took place when Vijayakumar (28) was working on the computer.
“We are yet to ascertain the cause of the blast. The computer was completely damaged and the deceased was charred,” a police officer said about the incident. Vijayakumar was sharing the house with two other software engineers, Vignesh (26) and Ram Prasad (26). “Ram Prasad had gone to take a bath. He told us that suddenly he heard a blast and when he rushed out, he saw the charred body of his friend and fainted. It sounds quite unbelievable. We have not heard of such a case before. But the scene of the accident seems to suggest that the youth was killed in an accident as his body was in the sitting position in front of the burnt computer,” the official added”
By Jakob Griffith on Apr 5th, 2009 at 9:34PM
Over the years you’ve probably learned that water and electricity don’t mix, also fire and hydrogen gas don’t mix. Well, I decided to go against the rules to see what would happen. As it turns out, given a 9 volt battery and some Epsom salts you can take completely harmless water and produce explosive gas!
By Tim Hage on Apr 4th, 2009 at 10:57PM
You would think that after my recent experiences reviewing Wheelman and Watchmen, I would learn that movie-based games are not quite my cup of tea, but it seems that I adore the abuse because here I am again, reviewing Wanted: Weapons of Fate. Is it my fate to be drawn to games that have almost no chance at being good? Will I ever learn? Well, I do it for you, my readers. So here we go, yet another movie-based game to add to the variety that feeds my gaming addiction hobby.
By Tim Hage on Apr 4th, 2009 at 11:48AM
Treyarch’s community manager, Josh Olin, recently announced that the PC release of ‘Map Pack 1′ will not only be free, but will also be bundled with the newest patch, 1.4. This is the same map pack that was released last month to console players. Unfortunately, there is still no release date for the patch.
The map pack adds three new multiplayer maps (Nightfire, Station, and Knee Deep) and one new zombie map (Zombie Verruckt, based on the original Asylum map), which features a new ‘Perks-a-Cola’ machine.
