8Bitone

June 28, 2009 – 10:48 pm

8Bitone is an iPhone synthesizer and sequencer of impeccable taste.

If you have some time on your hands, check out the excellent tutorials posted on the author’s site.

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Dance Like You’ve Got Ham in Your Pants

June 24, 2009 – 8:14 pm

This ridiculous title via the old PR copy and paste, all emphasis mine:

Data Design Interactive Signs distribution deal with Midway Games…

Stourbridge, UK, 24th June 2009. Data Design Interactive Ltd – a successful video games publisher and games developer, today announced that it has signed a deal with Midway Games Inc who will distribute DDI‘s Nintendo Wii game entitled ‘Schweineparty’ in German, Austria and Switzerland. (English version is entitled ‘Farmyard Party’)

Uwe Fuerstenberg, General Manager Midway Games GmbH, said:

“We are proud to work with Data Design Interactive on that highly enjoyable title. Schweineparty is 100% swine flu free but we are confident it will disseminate just as quickly.”

Schweineparty brings farmyard fun to the Nintendo Wii. The game has eight sporting events which are divided into four categories: all-round, speed, power, and skill. Game modes include party modes themed around event styles, single event fun and some hilarious bonus games.

The game play revolves around using a combination of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk in various ways to complete each event. The events require a combination of speed, timing and more than a little sweat!

Alongside the challenges of beating the game records and those of your friends, there are a number of new characters, bonus games and a development gallery for players to enjoy.
Based on the cornerstones of sportsmanship and competitiveness of the fun and crazy games, Schweineparty is an ideal choice for family friendly fun. Schweineparty provides an entertaining multiplayer experience (4 player mode), with colourful graphics and physically demanding gameplay.

Product Information
Release date: July
Genre: Sports / Party
No. of players: Up to 4 players
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Developer: Data Design Interactive
Publisher: Midway Games Inc

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id software acquired by zenimax

June 24, 2009 – 12:31 pm

Couldn’t let this go by without mention:

Basically:

12:22 -!- eq_phone [eqphone@166.205.131.80] has joined #quake
12:23 < eq_phone> What’s with the topic
12:23 <@jdk> dude
12:23 <@jdk> you didn’t hear
12:23 <@jdk> id was bought
12:24 < eq_phone> Carmack all cracked out or what
12:24 <@Crusader> he’s diving into big piles of money

12:22 -!- eq_phone [eqphone@166.205.131.80] has joined #quake

12:23 < eq_phone> What’s with the topic

12:23 <@jdk> dude

12:23 <@jdk> you didn’t hear

12:23 <@jdk> id was bought

12:24 < eq_phone> Carmack all cracked out or what

12:24 <@Crusader> he’s diving into big piles of money

Full text of the press release detailing the transaction after the break:

Click to continue reading “id software acquired by zenimax”

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Why You Play All Nine Innings

June 13, 2009 – 10:17 am

Friday featured not one, but two of the most embarrassing errors you’ll ever witness in baseball. Behold as these well-compensated professionals forget foundational baseball they learned in little-league. Early in the afternoon, Milton Bradley starts us off by counting to three tossing a fly ball he caught into Wrigley’s bleachers, a time-honored tradition when the half-inning ends. The only problem: it was only the second out of the inning.

Bradley forgets

For those of you still reeling from the shock of seeing what $7,000,000 gets you, savor the collapse of the New York Mets against the New York Yankees. How bad was it? Sure handed second basemen Luis Castillo dropped the 27th out of the game, and diligent Yankee base runners both scored, winning the game on their last chance.

Francisco and Luis turn 9th inning heartburn into heartache for Mets fans

There you have it, major leaguers proving that not even $22,416,666 makes you immune to mistakes.

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Shitface on Location

June 11, 2009 – 4:40 pm
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Sprint’s Palm Pre Advertises T-Mobile

June 8, 2009 – 1:50 am

Thanks to intrepid field reporter Joshua Kleiner, we have this exclusive screenshot of the Palm Pre (temporarily exclusive to Sprint) advertising T-Mobile in the Accuweather Weather app:

t-mobile-in-palm-pre

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In some spam from Borders:

June 4, 2009 – 9:26 am

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Save room for later, Augustus!

June 4, 2009 – 12:32 am
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Sign of the Times: Baloney Obama Gay Scandal

June 3, 2009 – 11:10 pm

Obama Gay Cover up

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

June 3, 2009 – 2:06 pm

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inFamous notes

June 3, 2009 – 11:10 am

Whew, E3 is draining me in terms of writing things for it. So, I’m going to give a quick +/- impressions on inFAMOUS, which came out a week before E3.

Pro:
+ Controls really well. I was expecting some awkward superpower controls or something, but getting around the city was really quick and easy.
+ There are some collectibles around that may take you a bit of time to get.
+ The achievements in the game are really easy to get. Taking about five days tops to get.

Cons:

- Pop-in is pretty noticeable, especially when you’re grinding the rails around the city and having textures pop-in. Not game breaking, but like Mass Effect on the Xbox 360 it’s noticeable.
- Horrible respawn locations for when you die. I could be on another island and die somewhere on that island have all the medic/re-spawn locations unlocked on that island… but, the game decides to spawn me back on another island clear across from where I was. What the hell?
- The plot is almost entirely terrible. When it ends (Terminator 2 style) it could only be saved if they had given Cole some cool sunglasses before… (spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers)
- There is no in-game statistics menu. To find how many shards/stunts you have done you most likely have to view the save on your XMB. Which is pretty damn stupid, Sucker Punch. Every other sandbox game has an in-game stats menu option. Why is Sucker Punch doing things differently?
- And viewing the stats is a hassle considering you have to do the one they list on the pause menu before you can find out what any of the other 21 stunts are.

Buy/Rent/Don’t play: Rentable at best. Playable but frustrating at worse.

Rent it since the game can be beaten in about 1-2 days of heavy play. There is minimal replay value in playing through the story again and when the game ends all you’re left with is a sandbox mode for finding collectibles.

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The Gross-Food Movement

June 2, 2009 – 4:06 pm

It doesn’t get more heroic than the Bacone. Created for a competition at a recent San Francisco installment of Bacon Camp (“an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment about bacon”), the Bacone is a food-engineering feat: a crisp cone of deep-fried bacon filled with scrambled eggs, cheese, and hash browns, topped with a layer of country gravy, and crowned with a biscuit. Kind of like a breakfast ice cream cone without the sugar high.

via The Gross-Food Movement: Food + Cooking : gourmet.com.

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Talking Classics: Sega CD

June 1, 2009 – 1:51 pm

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Vimperator

May 29, 2009 – 9:01 pm

Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in.

via Vimperator – vimperator labs.

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Honoring the fallen

May 29, 2009 – 7:03 pm
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