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Archive | May, 2008
New Site Redesign Launched!
Well it’s been years but we finally made the move to a new site design, we hope you like it. Here’s a quick breakdown of the goodies available now with the new layout: Besides the improved look we also rolled out optimizations across the site design itself so it should load much faster for most folks. Another [...]
Continue reading...Anti-Piracy Chip to Stop PC Piracy
24. May 2008
Atari’s Nolan Bushnell give’s a blurb: Speaking at yesterday’s Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip. “There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that [...]
Continue reading...Alone in the Dark: Cutting Edge Design
23. May 2008
And now, I’m not just referring to the insanely realistic physics/material engine in the game that has been demoed before, I’m referring to the use of ‘DVD chapters’ to allow shuffling through the game. Let me explain… Every game, ever, has had the design that you only progress by completing the levels in-order. Old-school games gave you [...]
Continue reading...Securely Formatting / Erasing an iPhone
22. May 2008
With the news getting around that pre-owned iPhones are actually shipping with previous-owner personal information on them, cops recovering data off of iPhones and word that AT&T is ramping up their pre-owned iPhone plan, learning how to correctly wipe your iPhone so all traces of personal information are gone is important. Luckily Securosis put together a [...]
Continue reading...Apple iPhone vs BlackBerry Bold
22. May 2008
A detailed, mostly physical comparison between the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold. If you saw the Bold and were curious how thick, wide, tall, short, heavy it was, this is the article to read. The gist of it is that the BlackBerry Bold is a bit thicker, has almost exactly the same surface form factor and [...]
Continue reading...Diablo 3 Announcement Coming Next Month?
22. May 2008
Update #1: Diablo 3 has been announced and we’ve covered it in depth in the following posts: Check First: Diablo 3 Announcement, Diablo 3 Gameplay Video, Diablo 3 Game Information Check Second: Diablo 3 20-Min Gameplay Video Diablo 3 Screenshot Rumors abound that PC Gamer is putting together the pieces to a puzzle that seems to show Blizzard is [...]
Continue reading...New Prince of Persia Cell-Shaded Screenshots
22. May 2008
Overall looking pretty hot, I was surprised when they said they were re-imaging the Prince of Persia series to be all cell-shaded now… the new fad, but given what I’m seeing below I’m glad they did it. I’m impressed with how “drawn” the cell-shading work coming out of Triple-A developers is looking.
Continue reading...The Secret History of Star Wars
22. May 2008
Are you a Star Wars fan? Then I’m about to drop some atomic shit right up your ass… How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good? Did he really have a masterplan for six, nine, or even twelve episodes, and why [...]
Continue reading...US Gas Price Heat Map
21. May 2008
Matt Young sent in a very cool link over to Gas Buddy, a site that provides a heat-map of the US’s gas prices, so you can get an idea of either how much or how little you are getting screwed. For our neighbors to the north (no not Seattle) you can get the Canadian gas-price heat [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Releases Set Top Player
20. May 2008
It’s official, Netflix has announced the first of 3 stand-alone set top boxes that integrate directly into their Watch it Now service to stream content directly to your TV. The first STB out of the gate is the Roku, and from the word on the street, sounds like a bare-bones $100 player. My guess is this [...]
Continue reading...Ghostbusters Gameplay Movie
17. May 2008
We have covered the upcoming Ghostbusters game a few times, and now it looks like we are going to get treated to some gameplay footage: Anyone else think this looks pretty canned?
Continue reading...Enabling Comments on Every Wordpress Page
17. May 2008
Ok this might seem trivial to the smarter WordPress folks out there, but I’m dumb… dumb like a sack of rocks and didn’t just figure this out until now. If you’ve been using WordPress for years and always wondered why the ‘Add a Comments’ section only show up on the front page of the blog and [...]
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24. May 2008
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