I would like to announce the launch of a couple new AJAX-enabled online utilities that software developers might find handy:
Base64 Encoder/Decoder
MD5 Generator
For those interested the utilities are written using the Play! Framework (Java) and JQuery/JQuery UI and the Base64 and MD5 generation is backed by the Commons Codec project.
These utilities are free to use, enjoy!
Mafia 2 is coming out August 24th, that’s in 6 days. We will explain why you should care…
Almost 8 years ago to the day, the original Mafia was released for the PC. It was, in our opinion, the best game of 2002 and a sleeper hit that garner none of the attention it deserved. I [...]
Friendly reminder to all the folks out there still running Windows 7 RC from last year – it expires in 3 days (probably more like 2 days by the time you read this).
After the install expires, your computer will start shutting itself down automatically every 2 hours; so you should take this expiration pretty seriously.
For [...]
We postulated a few months ago that the PS3 would eventually win the console war with 3D and Motion Control while Microsoft was forced, earlier than 2015, to do another hardware cycle to stay caught up with the powerful PS3 platform.
Not more than 2 months later some slides with 2010 3D plans for the PS3 [...]
NETGEAR has made available the 4.1.5 release of the RAIDiator firmware (operating system) that their ReadyNAS line of personal NAS devices run.
For those that aren’t familiar with the ReadyNAS line, they originally started as personal servers from a company named Infrant that provided more than just dumb network-attached disk space (like the Drobo), they focused [...]
Death Tank is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, February 18th. We’re not talking about the old Sega Saturn version, but a complete remake by Snowblind Studios. If you don’t recall the original it is a lot like Worms, but in real time. For $15 (1200 Microsoft Points), Death Tank supports Xbox Live multiplayer [...]
After getting delayed and then having the released date posted incorrectly on Xbox.com the Fable II Knothole Island content and a bug patch finally released today. The new content is available now on Xbox Live for $10. If you’re not interested in paying for the new content but you want to play cooperatively with a [...]
Please keep in mind I’m wearing my “Joe average user” hat that this platform is suppose to target as a delivery platform (and simplify developer’s lives in the process).
I’ll admit that I’ve always had trouble with the Java plugin and Firefox on my old Windows XP SP2 desktop, Windows XP SP3 laptop and my Windows [...]
Ouch… right after Mirror’s Edge was released on consoles as either a love it or hate it ordeal (I’d say I lean towards the first) it looks like they are sprucing up the PC launch of the title with full physical material rendering done by the NVIDIA PhysX engine that was recently integrated directly into [...]
If you play you’re preferred music game anything like I do, at least 3 or 4 songs a day with longer stretches on the weekend, you’ve probably downloaded a few songs to expand your music gaming library. Both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour have had a pretty steady stream of additional songs [...]
So, you want to get your hands on the next big name title early? Last week maybe it was Gears of War 2 or now it is World of WarCraft: Wrath of the Lich King? You might want to try your local 7-11. Yes, the place with the Slurpees. Most 7-11s now carry a few [...]
It’s here, Good Old Games (GOG) Public Beta!
We covered the announcement of Good Old Games back in June. The idea behind the service being that the guys who brought you The Witcher, CD Projekt, have bought the rights to classic PC titles in order to recondition them to run on the latest operating system, making [...]
It’s official, no more waiting, no more secret SDKs and top-secret government handshakes (ok, there never really was), but it’s still nice to hear that Google has officially Open Sourced Android.
The preferred licensing for working with the Android platform is the Apache 2.0 license. For folks wanting to contribute directly to the platform you will [...]
Lion Head has announced that the co-op “patch” for Fable 2 has been certified by Microsoft and all is green-lit; so when you buy Fable 2 on October 21st and pop it into your Xbox 360 to play, you’ll see the all-to-common “There is a patch available for this game, would you like to apply [...]
When the advanced physics and materials engine was demoed for Alone in the Dark (360) last year, we got really excited. Bringing the AITD story back to live with really cutting edge engine design along with some really interesting game-design elements like the “look in my coat” real-time inventory system as well as the DVD [...]
Awesome, looks like Fable 2 will have Co-Op play at it’s launch thanks to a Day One patch (e.g. as soon as you pop the disk in, it will apply a patch).
Remember a couple of days ago (or was it a week) where on a blog it was mentioned that Fable II would be shipping [...]
It’s freaking official, after the first announcement was made that the BlackBerry ‘Thunder’ was the new BlackBerry to compete with the iPhone, then months of waiting, then rumors that it was now called the ‘Storm’, it’s finally here, and every carrier everywhere seems to be getting them.
The shot you see above is from Canada’s Telus [...]
Netflix released it’s long-awaited developer API yesterday (JavaScript, REST) and to a lot of people’s surprise, was quite a bit more open-ended than expected:
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Netflix API. The team has been hard at work on this and we’re glad we can finally let people see what we’ve built. The [...]
Apparently MTV Games/Harmonix are cool with you getting your hands on Rock Band 2 early (breaking the September 14th street date), giving the player lucky enough to get their hands on it early a little “props” at the bottom of their main menu (See screenshot above).
Pretty cool actually… it’s always nice to see a company [...]
Virtual Desktops in Vista has been a sore point for massive multi-taskers since Linux made virtual desktops cool 114 years ago and Apple took it mainstream with OS X 10.5 and Spaces.
We’ve been on the hunt for a good Virtual Desktop application for Vista for quite a while; we wrote about Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager [...]
We all saw this coming after Grand Theft Auto IV sold a billion copies and everyone decided that PC Gaming actually wasn’t dying after all, but here it is, officially now, Grand Theft Auto IV PC screenshots.
Some of the enhancements are improved draw distance, faster load times, high-res support and “high res textures”, although looking [...]
The box-office darlings have made a life-altering, earth-shattering, we’re-sorry-there-will-be-no-second-coming-of-the-messiah-after-all and by-the-way-there-is-no-Santa-Clause crushing announcement that has sent thousands running to petitionspot.com to cry to the producers about how it’s not fair, and how they’re just in it for the money (what is this, Hollywood or something?), and various other “Please Harry put on your clothes and [...]
Bah, it looks like the Rock Band 2 complete bundle (game + instruments) will be delayed an entire month until October 19th and only the game itself will be available at the original September 14th release date with the option to buy the instruments separately.
Unfortunately for gamers that don’t already have the complete Rock Band [...]
Right after we got done covering the news that the upcoming 177.79 Forceware drivers from NVIDIA would add the PhysX physics engine support, NVIDIA made liars out of us and released that PhysX engine support in their new 177.83 drivers… so burn… on us I guess…
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