Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Jan 29, 2009 6:04pm PSTThe last days of Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios are chronicled in this final blog post from co-founder Bruce Shelley. A sad time for a solid team. Good luck to everyone moving on.
Also, happy birthday Duke Nukem 3D, I guess? For some reason I just can't get behind marking the "birthdays" of videogames. Maybe it's because these birthday celebrations only seem to extend to a few select hardcore PC shooters. I mean, I'm as big a Doom fan as anyone, but where's the party for X-Wing? Who bakes a cake for Mario?
The news from today worth repeating:
- Boom Blox sequel announced
- Prince of Persia Epilogue DLC revealed
- Warhammer Online "live expansion" announced
- New worldwide console sales data
- Burnout Paradise getting Pursuit mode in DLC?
- Gears of War PC disabled by calendar
- Tokyo Beat Down screenshots introduce Lewis Cannon
- StarCraft 2 screenshots introduce massive zergling horde
- Prince of Persia DLC screenshots introduce new level
- Unreal Tournament 3 retail copies let onto Steam
- Halo Wars demo giveaway wrapped up
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
quality trumps all obviously but i'm really interested in anything released recently that i might have missed. i could of swore
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last weekend, or maybe the weekend before that :P, I asked you guys to pick out a great movie for me.
Dr.Waffles definitely did not let me down by suggesting shawshank redemption.
Now i have a similar dilemma, i need you guys to recommend me another awesome movie and the one that has the most people agreeing with that choice wins, and will be the movie i will watch this weekend!
GO!
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However, this saddens me that I'll probably stop playing Dawn of War 2 for this game. I really really love the Dawn of War universe, but I know Starcraft's gameplay will be vastly superior. Damn you Blizzard for never failing to make awesome games! Oh, wait...nevermind. Kudos Blizz... Where's Diablo 3?
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Ugh, why do some people not self monitor themselves in public? Also, I love the guy who gets in the elevator on the phone and starts talking louder b/c they can't hear him. WTF, just say "hey one sec I am getting in the elevator I can talk when I get out and you can hear me" or just call them back when you get to your car. Quit being a CUNT! (yes cunt is my new word)
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Foxhawk and I are planning on starting up a new game shortly. We will be using marathon game speed on a huge fractal map with the max number of AI players.
Anyone is welcome to join at any time. You will be able take over the ai or have the ai take over for you if you need to go. If you would like just pop in and mess around for a bit we would not mind.
The game name is Shack game and the password is lamp
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I'm not going to link to favourites this time though, that would take forever. Instead, check out these playlists on demoscene.tv. It's a great way to see most of the best ones in streaming video format, then you can download and run them on your PC if you really like them and want HQ! Feel free to link to any REALLy cool ones you find in reply though. http://www.demoscene.tv/page.php?id=609&lang=uk
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Is there a way to always trust an "Unknown Publisher" or an executable? I have a program where either it's cert has expired or some Windows update did something & now the users have to accept this stupid pop up message every time.
TIA
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I just got a pizza stone and I really want to try it.
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What do I do about this?
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what's a good Sci-fi shooter on PC from the last 2 years?
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i had an unfortunate family circumstance that made me fuck up at my last job, but they didnt have any compassion or patience and fired me.
i gave my resume to a friend yesterday, he gave it to a headhunter. the headhunter got it yesterday.
i already have 2 interviews set up for next week. this is kinda crazy.
what are y'all suggestions
I'm hoping for something less complicated to set up than Cacti, windows friendly if possible.. :)
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The CEO of the companies birthday is next week, she's having a big party and everyone's invited, blah blah. They've been sending emails for the last 2 weeks about pooling together money to buy her a gift. It's been mentioned in meetings and at scrum, etc, etc. They were pretty clear about it being anonymous and that no one should feel obligated to contribute.
I've been with this company for about 8 years. I like the CEO, and I would definitely contribute to such a fund, HOWEVER, I was asked by her to take photos of the event. I decided to buy a flash and let the photos be a gift to her instead of contributing to the company pool.
Today the admin sends out an email to everyone in the company except the CEO saying "Thank you to everyone that contributed. I will have the following contributors sign the card next week." and then proceeds to list off everyone that contributed. Now, there are several people that didn't contribute, but holy fucking shit, doesn't that seem a little bit like calling out the people that aren't on the list?
I don't know if I'm just being stupid, but I'm really pretty pissed off about this.
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It can't be. it can't.
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http://xkcd.com/532/
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Google ain't helping, docs aren't either.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/30/ea-unveils-new-need-for-speed-trio/
That screenshot looks fucking hot, I hope it's a more focused racer than the later NFS's
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http://www.bbqaddicts.com/bacon-explosion.html
I have already purchased the ingredients. I'll need to get some wood chips. I can do this in my propane Grill right? Put moist chips in a pan on one side with flame, and no heat on the other?
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O_o
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My last save point was at my Safe House, last meeting with the Jackal, where he lays out the plan with 2 choices for me: 1. take the explosives, or 2. take the diamonds. I chose path #2. And then I made my way with the diamonds along a cliff and killed 4-5 dudes from far away with my sniper rifle, then the game cut to an explosion and my journalist friend Rueben, and said some text on the screen about the war, showed some real-life looking photos, and that was the ending.
Is there another ending to see if I chose path #1?
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Sorry about the downtime on the shack API there. Rails hosted via Mongrel through an apache proxy on a shared host are a pain. because if they go down its not always possible to know that. I'm gonna get it switched over the mod_rails over the next few days which should be far simpler and more stable. Sorry about that.
Also, send me your honest feedback on VOID Lite, we will be working hard polishing up the full release the next few weeks.
LINK: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301641126&mt=8
Lastly, the canopy zipline was awesome fucking shit. One of our guides recorded this video on our camera right after we went. So much adrenaline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgs-aw8Z_4Y&fmt=22
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