December 2007
25 posts
GAIA Online VJ app is pretty sweet [Updated on... →
xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:s3=”http://www.foopee.com/ns/s3/srvtmpl/”> I was just using GAIA’s new Bebo app (which is meh), but stumbled across their new VJ feature. These guys are quickly trying to iterate towards an overall synchronous world (with forums as the asynch interaction), and I think the new app has potential. And it is good overall...
THANK GOD...Christmas is over! →
In true form I have not posted anything on my blog for a long time, but while I’m now enjoying some vacation time i figured it would be a good time for me to catch up on some thoughts I have had floating around in my head. Thank GOD…Christmas is over. This time of year depresses me for so many reasons. I had wonderful Christmases growing up and have very fond memories of me and my...
That's Code for, "I'm Lost, Too" →
Man: Excuse me, could you tell me where— Biotech, interrupting: —Look, I don’t have time to make up fake directions. —W Broadway Headline by: Trey Jackson Runners-Up: · “And This Rudeness Is Two Seconds Of My Life I’ll Never Get Back” - Markle · “And, Being a New Yorker, I Certainly Won’t Give You Real Ones” - Yana ·...
Ron Paul Supporters Plan World Of Warcraft Rally →
Next Tuesday (New Year’s Day) at 8:30PM EST, a group of fervent supporters of Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency of the United States are planning a virtual rally on World of Warcraft’s Whisperwind server. According to the fourteen pages of planning for the event found in this Ron Paul website, players plan to create a guild (presumably with a name designed to advertise their...
Shoot Club: All Our Pretty Songs Part Four: Pick... →
“Okay, here we go.” Trevor takes up the mic, Peter hitches up his guitar strap, I lower my guitar strap to be more bass like, and Jude taps the drum sticks against each other three times. Tap tap tap. And then three more times as the song as loading. Tap tap tap. And then three more before the song actually starts. Tap tap tap. And then the song starts when he’s half way through...
Forbes Names Nvidia Company of the Year →
Video card manufacturer Nvidia has been named 2007 Company of the Year by Forbes Magazine, to be announced its January 7 issue.
Team Fortress 2 Visual Designer Says Other Games'... →
In a recent interview, Team Fortress 2 visual designer Moby Franke discussed art direction in videogames, saying, among other things, that no available titles provide any source of artistic inspiration.
Scotland Using Xbox 360 Games To Combat Drunk... →
Scotland’s Transportation Ministry is planning to spend £10,000 to subtly insert ads into Xbox 360 titles warning players away from driving while drunk. This new advertising tactic comes in the wake of claims made recently by Transportation Minister Stewart Stevenson saying, “statistics showing that road deaths, particularly among young people, are continuing to rise.” Targeted...
Aperture Science Wishes You A Merry Christmas... →
Proving even cold-hearted AI constructs can be filled with Christmas cheer, GLaDOS has sent out this heart-warming holiday message from deep within Aperture’s Holiday Vault. Poor Santa. Fat lot of good that warning message is going to be when he’s consumed by flames, his screams of terror echoing helplessly throughout Apertures empty corridors. Aperture Science [thanks freakon!]
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Lynne Spears’ parenting book put on hold →
Lynne Spears’ book about raising her famous daughters is going to sit on the back-burner for a while thanks to the recent announcement of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy. The book was to focus on Lynne’s life bringing up two high-profile children despite a humble background in Louisiana, according to People: “The book is delayed indefinitely. It’s delayed, not cancelled,”...
MTV Exec Talks Bruckheimer, Future Of MTV Games -... →
Over at MTVNews.com and on this very blog, we’re reporting on the just-announced deal between MTV Games and “CSI”/”Pirates of the Caribbean” producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
The multi-year partnership has been established to create some original video games.
But what in the world is MTV Games doing with Jerry Bruckheimer?
I was given a chance to interview Bruckheimer and the main guy behind the deal...
ScaleBitmap : 9-slice bitmap class [ by Didier... →
Hi everybody,
I have just finished a simple class which allows you to resize dynamically any Bitmap (just like the MovieClip.scale9Grid feature).
This project is OPEN SOURCE under RPL License. 2007-12-17 v1.1 scaleBitmap_v11.zip
The zip file contains :
the v1.0 ScaleBitmap class
a Flash CS3 demo file
a demo PNG Bitmap file
Some features :
dynamically set the...
Behold ‘Patapon’ — Hands-On With Near-Final... →
Even though Nintendo is the company with the reputation for innovation, many of the most original big-publisher games I played in 2007 appeared on Sony systems. None may have been quite as odd and engaging as “Patapon,” the PSP game I tried out earlier this week.
Sony reps were in Manhattan to show the winter line-up for PSP, PS2 and PS3. They told me “Echochrome” would be there. But before I...
Patriots Proud Of Defeating Whoever That Last Team... →
FOXBOROUGH, MA—Patriots quarterback Tom Brady diplomatically emphasized that defeating whoever it was they had just played gave him and his…
Patriots Proud Of Defeating Whoever That Last Team... →
FOXBOROUGH, MA—Patriots quarterback Tom Brady diplomatically emphasized that defeating whoever it was they had just played gave him and his…
Okay, Maybe Turbine Isn’t So Bad →
Quoted for excellence:
As our intrepid heroes arrived at the crest of the hill, a warm and fetid wind blew out of the east, from the great swamp of Malenhad. Amlug scowled, but not at the swamp-odor.
Amlug (pointing at a charging boar): Doesn’t he know where he is? If there’s one place that we shouldn’t be fighting boars, it’s the Land of Angmar!
After a flurry of blows, MadeOfLions squinted...
The march of commodification →
So I got an email announcing ChatBlade, a new MMOG chat system middleware package; a specialized enough need that it would have been kind of inconceivable a few years ago as a business. Which leads to speculation on where we are headed in terms of innovative virtual world tchnologies. And now, I have to open this post with an anecdote (even though they say to write for blogs the way you write for...
The march of commodification →
So I got an email announcing ChatBlade, a new MMOG chat system middleware package; a specialized enough need that it would have been kind of inconceivable a few years ago as a business. Which leads to speculation on where we are headed in terms of innovative virtual world tchnologies. And now, I have to open this post with an anecdote (even though they say to write for blogs the way you write for...
W00t Wins Webster's Word of the Year, Just Edges... →
W00t, that expression of joy invented by gamers way back when Sonic and Tails were special friends, has been given the accolade of word of the year by Webster’s dictionary. The word, which beat the verb “to facebook” has an uncertain providence: while some people think it is an acronym for “We own the other team”, others believe it is a mere exhortation of joy, like...
Add the new Google Maps Street View Panoramas to... →
Google Maps has extended its cut-and-paste tools making it even easier to add more Google Maps to your site. The Street View panoramas join Google’s recently launched embeddable options, which means you can now add a Street View panoramas to your site just by cutting and pasting a snippet of HTML into your page. To grab the code just click the “link to this page” button when you’ve found the...
The 2G Experience →
Is Groovy the future of Java? It may well be. The worst thing about Groovy these days is it’s name. Want to terrify your boss? Go up to him and tell him you want to switch all your development to something called “Groovy”. And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. I’m lobbying the Groovy community to make a subtle name change, and it only applies when...
Perpetually Messing Up →
First Perpetual Entertainment had to axe Gods and Heroes, then there was the debacle about making Star Trek Online a “more casual game,” and now, it looks like they could be in major legal trouble due to fraud. From Ten Ton Hammer’s exclusive article:
Details surrounding Perpetual Entertainment’s dealings subsequent to the cancellation of Gods & Heroes are coming to light as Ten Ton Hammer...
Moshi Monsters →
Adding yet another realm to social networking online, UK-based gaming company Mind Candy combines the Tamagotchi virtual pet concept with web 2.0 to create Moshi Monster, a social networking site aimed at kids. Instead of creating profiles users adopt monsters, which they can nurture and play with, interacting with other kids and monsters in the process. By taking good care of your monster...
Calling Google Analytics from inside Flash... →
xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:s3=”http://www.foopee.com/ns/s3/srvtmpl/”> This could save us some serious time on creating reports structures. Just a note to come back to, for Make Make, our Corporate website, and eventually the entire site - we can use Google Analytics to get a great deal of the flow-through, exit, and other data that we need - even inside...
Phenomenon Stone Shaze Sunglasses →
Here the latest from Japanese premium label Phenomenon. The brand just released their latest set of sunglasses, the Stone Shaze. They come in black and white and both have multicolor arms. The black and white parts of the sunglasses are covered in rhinestones to give them the finishing touch.