Friday, April 29, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
GTA
The humble beginnings of Grand Theft Auto - article on kotaku.com, with a link to this nice photo gallery of GTA art.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Anonymous vs. HBGary
Here's an article that sums up what happened last month with the whole "Anonymous vs. HBGary"-thing.
Aaron Barr, the CEO of HBGary, pisses of Anonymous, they teach him a lesson and, in the process, find a lot of juicy material and make it public.
Also:
Article on BoingBoing entitled "How Anonymous decides: inside the lulz-sausage factory"
Aaron Barr, the CEO of HBGary, pisses of Anonymous, they teach him a lesson and, in the process, find a lot of juicy material and make it public.
Also:
Article on BoingBoing entitled "How Anonymous decides: inside the lulz-sausage factory"
Friday, March 4, 2011
Gemini Rue
There was an article on Kotaku a couple of days ago about a new point and click adventure game called Gemini Rue. It looks interesting and there's a demo available. I might give it a shot.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The boy who stole Half-Life 2
Eurogamer has an article about Axel Gembe, who stole the Half-Life 2 sourcecode back in 2003:
The boy who stole Half-Life 2
Can't believe that was over 7 years ago already.
The boy who stole Half-Life 2
Can't believe that was over 7 years ago already.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Recent games
I found a guy on Craigslist who was/is selling new (sealed) PS3 games for 35 bucks a piece. Must have fallen from a truck, no doubt, but who cares?! Got Gran Turismo 5 and Need for speed - Hot Pursuit from him.
Then, a couple of days later, a guy was selling Mass Effect 2 for 40 $ (new & sealed).
I had planned to get all those games eventually, but wanted to wait until prices had dropped. Little did I know that I'd be able to get them shortly after their launch at those fantastic prices. Craigslist rules for these kinds of things.
After a long, long time, I finally FINISHED a couple of games: Heavy Rain and Bionic Commando: Rearmed. I only saw one ending of Heavy Rain, I'll get back to it later to try and see some of the other endings. It's definitely more of an interactive movie rather than a traditional game. But taking it for what it is, I enjoyed it. BCR was great fun and since I finished it just a couple of days after its sequel came out on PSN, I bought BCR2 right away.
I played Dead Nation a lot in January and am loving it. I eventually got stuck at the cemetary (if you've played the game you probably know which spot I'm talking about) and died over and over again. Lost my motivation for now, I'll get back to it at some point, when I feel like it.
I'd like to try it in co-op mode too, but I have no one to play it with. (Tried it with my friend in Dakar, but it's too laggy)
I dug Demon's Souls out from the shelf and played it for a couple of hours, having only played the tutorial many months ago). The game is incredible. It's old-school, hard as fuck, addicting and beautiful. And I haven't even finished world 1-1! Its successor, Dark Souls, is already in the making.
Then, a couple of days later, a guy was selling Mass Effect 2 for 40 $ (new & sealed).
I had planned to get all those games eventually, but wanted to wait until prices had dropped. Little did I know that I'd be able to get them shortly after their launch at those fantastic prices. Craigslist rules for these kinds of things.
After a long, long time, I finally FINISHED a couple of games: Heavy Rain and Bionic Commando: Rearmed. I only saw one ending of Heavy Rain, I'll get back to it later to try and see some of the other endings. It's definitely more of an interactive movie rather than a traditional game. But taking it for what it is, I enjoyed it. BCR was great fun and since I finished it just a couple of days after its sequel came out on PSN, I bought BCR2 right away.
I played Dead Nation a lot in January and am loving it. I eventually got stuck at the cemetary (if you've played the game you probably know which spot I'm talking about) and died over and over again. Lost my motivation for now, I'll get back to it at some point, when I feel like it.
I'd like to try it in co-op mode too, but I have no one to play it with. (Tried it with my friend in Dakar, but it's too laggy)
I dug Demon's Souls out from the shelf and played it for a couple of hours, having only played the tutorial many months ago). The game is incredible. It's old-school, hard as fuck, addicting and beautiful. And I haven't even finished world 1-1! Its successor, Dark Souls, is already in the making.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The making of EVE Online
PCGamer has an article about "The making of EVE Online", an interesting read.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Dead Nation Metagame
Dead Nation Metagame - Your country needs you!
Article on the EU Playstation blog about the world-zombie-kill-championship that's built in to Dead Nation, a recent game for the PS3.
I plan to get it as soon as I get back to the US.
Article on the EU Playstation blog about the world-zombie-kill-championship that's built in to Dead Nation, a recent game for the PS3.
I plan to get it as soon as I get back to the US.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Ruby programming for beginners
Found this article on Lifehacker about Hackety Hack, a Ruby programming/learning tool for beginners.
In the comments of this article, someone mentioned Why the lucky stiff, the person behind Hackety Hack, and pointed to this article that tells a bit of background information on him.
In the comments of this article, someone mentioned Why the lucky stiff, the person behind Hackety Hack, and pointed to this article that tells a bit of background information on him.
Friday, December 17, 2010
R.I.P. delicious.com
Yahoo decided to shut down delicious.com soon, so to be on the safe side, I was looking for a way to export all my bookmarks. Here's a how-to.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
rsync & backups
I've been using this backup-method for a while now and it works well for me.
After upgrading OSX to Snow Leopard, though, rsync would start to do its thing and then it would get stuck at
/var/vm/sleepimage
for no apparent reason.
After looking around a bit, I read that the version of rsync that OSX brings with it is fairly old and a newer version might behave better. Using this tutorial, I installed/compiled rsync 3.0.7 and it solved the problem.
Some articles on the same topic that are interesting as well:
http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143497&tstart=1
http://www.lbackup.org/developer/overview
http://help.bombich.com/faqs/troubleshooting/what-makes-a-volume-bootable
After upgrading OSX to Snow Leopard, though, rsync would start to do its thing and then it would get stuck at
/var/vm/sleepimage
for no apparent reason.
After looking around a bit, I read that the version of rsync that OSX brings with it is fairly old and a newer version might behave better. Using this tutorial, I installed/compiled rsync 3.0.7 and it solved the problem.
Some articles on the same topic that are interesting as well:
http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143497&tstart=1
http://www.lbackup.org/developer/overview
http://help.bombich.com/faqs/troubleshooting/what-makes-a-volume-bootable
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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