February 29, 2012 – 2:44 am
There have already been two downloadable add-ons for the original Alan Wake. In Alan Wake’s American Nightmare you’ve got a standalone story mode and a half-dozen or so survival mode levels added to the mix as well. I wasn’t really sure what was in American Nightmare until coverage for the game started picking up prior [...]
January 7, 2012 – 6:49 pm
…and other great tips for games journalists from Colin Campbell.
January 5, 2012 – 2:44 am
It’s almost unsettling how many choices you have when deciding what kind of iPhone case you’d like to buy. Do you get one that charges your phone, or looks cool? Is it a wallet? Or a steering wheel? The BookBook fits into the wallet category.
March 24, 2011 – 10:52 pm
via Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet » Technology Blog » Chipworks.
March 16, 2011 – 10:54 pm
Seaworld employees unleash penguins on unsuspecting Southwest airline passengers:
Lots of interesting stuff including Ryan discussing OS/2 at length. This portion is especially compelling: I find if you’re targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Not to long ago, people would say, “why bother? Everyone runs Windows!” [...]
December 12, 2010 – 10:48 pm
Ask any game developer and they’ll tell you that publishers are the scum of the earth. It’s never a question of “if” the publisher screws you, it’s “when”. During my 15 years as a developer I have seen publishers pull every dirty trick imaginable, from telling the dev team of a certain AAA title to [...]
October 18, 2010 – 1:31 am
Game Dev Story is a business simulation about choices. What genre, what platform, and what theme do you want for your game? Is the game cute and simple or realistic and innovative? Do you want to use an in-house art, story, and audio folks or outsource assets and writing? There are quite a few choices [...]
October 9, 2010 – 3:27 pm
Schneier’s write-up of the Stuxnet worm is good: None of this points to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, though. Best I can tell, this rumor was started by Ralph Langner, a security researcher from Germany. He labeled his theory “highly speculative,” and based it primarily on the facts that Iran had an usually [...]
October 1, 2010 – 9:03 pm
“They actually conducted surveillance. They followed him from his work to his house,” Feldstein says. “They staked out his house. They looked at it for vulnerabilities … [and dicussed] how they could plant poison in his aspirin bottle. They talked about how they could spike his drink and they talked about smearing LSD on his [...]