You laugh, but there was an Unreal Tournament-based Nerf game (Nerf Arenablast! if I remember correctly) a few years ago that was loads of fun.
Had a great mode where you had to collect balls worth a certain amount of points and shoot them through a target using a special gun. If you got fragged, your balls would scatter for the other folks to pick up.
I saw a trailer for "Mulan II" the other day. Steaming pile...
Seriously, they've lost whatever creativity they ever had. They're simply going through their back catalogue looking for everything they haven't done a sequal for.
Leo's still on the Canadian version of Call for Help. Not sure if there's anything you can do to get the Canadian flavour of G4TechTV if you're not in Canada...
Seconded. I'm using a five year old 19" here mostly because I don't want to sell a lung to get a good LCD that I can still use for gaming. For the cost of a good 1280x1024 LCD (good meaning low refresh rate, high contrast) you can pick up 2-3 good 19" CRTs.
As much as I hate Java, that's not entirely true. You wouldn't want to write a game that needs to be fast in Java, but it's fine for turn-based games and even some MMOGs.
If you RTFA you'll discover that the tax on CD-Rs and whatnot is still in place; it's just the tax on MP3 players that's been struck down.
I won't be calling up the government any time soon to get "my" $25 back (got a Rio Karma for my anniversary); I'll happily soak $25 for the priviledge of not dealing with government bureaucracy.
Somehow I doubt that the XP kernel is 40 million lines of code. I know it's not good "news" but they should really compare apples to apples in their study.
This just in! "Hello world" has 0 bugs per three lines of code! Most stable and secure software ever devised!
Bah. Just add some kind of in-game blogging and that want can be solved, plus you can watch your Sim teens cranking out stupid, angsty posts all day long.
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Archon 2006, coming just in time for Christmas, or else!
You laugh, but there was an Unreal Tournament-based Nerf game (Nerf Arenablast! if I remember correctly) a few years ago that was loads of fun.
Had a great mode where you had to collect balls worth a certain amount of points and shoot them through a target using a special gun. If you got fragged, your balls would scatter for the other folks to pick up.
Those aren't watermarks!
They sound about as effective as Springfield's police force.
Or is that three arrests for Bill Gates?
Sorry, dude. The only ones who get rich off of class-action lawsuits are the lawyers.
Another cheer for avast! here; I've got it installed on two machines, and I've installed it for a couple of other people, and it works like a charm.
I've got a UMAX s900 DP180 (dual processor, 180MHz PowerPC 604e Mac clone) that nobody loves, that I'd be happy to part with.
The compression used in gzip (which is the same "deflate" compression used in ZIP files) is also open; check out zlib's license.
I saw a trailer for "Mulan II" the other day. Steaming pile...
Seriously, they've lost whatever creativity they ever had. They're simply going through their back catalogue looking for everything they haven't done a sequal for.
I'm waiting for "Bambi II - The Revenge".
A cat if we're lucky.
Leo's still on the Canadian version of Call for Help. Not sure if there's anything you can do to get the Canadian flavour of G4TechTV if you're not in Canada...
They've whored up X-Play quite a bit lately... new set, new perm, more makeup and "sexier" clothes for Morgan.
I suppose next they'll be firing Adam or replacing him with some sort of Ken doll or something.
Seconded. I'm using a five year old 19" here mostly because I don't want to sell a lung to get a good LCD that I can still use for gaming. For the cost of a good 1280x1024 LCD (good meaning low refresh rate, high contrast) you can pick up 2-3 good 19" CRTs.
Shove a video camera down your pants and display your tiny penis on the 84" TV... problem solved.
Remember to close your blinds first so Godzillapenis doesn't scare the hell out of your neighbours.
See also the number of lawyers who go into politics. It isn't going to get fixed any time soon.
Welcome to the new consolidated and risk-averse gaming industry. Pray for the small developers and independants to deliver us from rehashes.
Maybe Sun could release a Java-based console. Probably priced around $400 US for PS1-style graphics.
As much as I hate Java, that's not entirely true. You wouldn't want to write a game that needs to be fast in Java, but it's fine for turn-based games and even some MMOGs.
Not exactly "hard-core" games, but the Nancy Drew adventure games my wife loves have been coming in standard DVD cases for the past couple of games.
She's been ordering them off eBay though, since they're released about six months earlier in the US than in Canada for no apparent reason.
My new encryption method is unstoppable!
If you RTFA you'll discover that the tax on CD-Rs and whatnot is still in place; it's just the tax on MP3 players that's been struck down.
I won't be calling up the government any time soon to get "my" $25 back (got a Rio Karma for my anniversary); I'll happily soak $25 for the priviledge of not dealing with government bureaucracy.
Somehow I doubt that the XP kernel is 40 million lines of code. I know it's not good "news" but they should really compare apples to apples in their study.
This just in! "Hello world" has 0 bugs per three lines of code! Most stable and secure software ever devised!
Lego Racers kicks butt as a kart racing game. Lego Racers 2 sucks butt in every way.
Just so you know.
Fear. I've seen a picture (on that Internet thingy, probably on IRC Images) of Ron Jeremy dressed as Mario.
It was disturbing.
Bah. Just add some kind of in-game blogging and that want can be solved, plus you can watch your Sim teens cranking out stupid, angsty posts all day long.