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Durham University students put Valve’s Source 3D Game Engine, used to drive the oh-so-famous-FPS Half-Life 2, to good educational use by creating a fire drill simulator and use it to examine people’s behavior in a real scenario. Check this link for the vid and the rest of the tldr text.

Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 14:37 | 0 comments
Categories: Random, Video Games

Why use and artist’s rendition of a hit and run culprit when police have technology right? Nintendo technology that is! So, if you’ve seen this Mii, you live in Japan and if you actually give a crap, be sure to report it to the police.

Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 | 1 comment
Categories: Random, Video Games

  OK, seriously, WTF!? Why!? A-anyways, I guess this need some explaining, this “game” was developed using the XNA Framework and you can download it to your 360 via Community Games for a measly 200 Microsoft Points…use your imagination. At least it’s more useful than this.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 13:52 | 5 comments
Categories: Random, Video Games
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I wrote this neat little article for n00bs that would like to create games for Windows and the Xbox 360 using the XNA Framework, it’s actually aimed at those who have very little programming experience. Since Object-Oriented Programming has become pretty much a standard for real software developers and engineers, game development is no exception. [...]

Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 20:48 | 4 comments

Aside all the coding I’ve been doing I found some time to begin working on new stuff for EPAC 2009. I had fun with this, tried out my new tablet, it was quickly drawn but good practice before doing the good stuff. If you have any suggestions for liable new artworks by all means please [...]

Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 00:57 | 2 comments
Categories: Anime, Art, Programming
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Seriously, 4 campaigns, but you just can’t get tired of this, even the almighty Hideo Kojima admitted being addicted to this game, so why was GTA4 GOTY? Politics. It’s all politics.

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 16:27 | 0 comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Destructoid called it a show with Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation and two Australian guys, I agree. It does however have potential to go mainstream, so check it out, the Master Chief skit was hilarious.

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 01:17 | 0 comments
Categories: Video Games

Truly a masterpiece that transcends time, my favorite RPG and possibly game, I can’t express with words how happy I am to be playing this again in a new generation portable console. I hope that those that haven’t had the chance to pick up this game do, you can’t call yourself an expert on the [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 | 0 comments
Categories: Music, Video Games

So the day came and it went, I bought stuff that I could’ve gotten any other day, but hey, the thrill of living like a hobo! Am I right? Anyways, I got a Zune, so I’ll be programming for that real soon, but I’m really happy because I finally have my Bamboo Wacom Tablet, it’s [...]

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 09:55 | 1 comment
Categories: Local, Random

This video was created by the photographer Robbie Cooper for The New York Times. We all have our gamer faces, we just don’t realize it. The video showcases the various faces kids make when they play, they are all different, from the entranced, the joyful and the bored. One even cries a little, yet again, [...]

Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 23:45 | 1 comment
Categories: Video Games