18 Jun 2007, 01:07
My european copies of Gears of War, Lego Star Wars 2, King Kong and Tomb Raider Legend work on an american 360. Burnout and PGR3 don’t. I hope the PS3 marks the end of region-locked games forever; I hate them. Actually, I’m not sure if Wii games are also region coded. Anyway, that’s the mini-rant before going to sleep.
16 Jun 2007, 16:34
No more Vista posts for a while. 🙂
It seems that my bold predictions for the Nintendo Wii were only half right. The Wii is a runaway success (it is still impossible to find one on the shelves here in Vancouver), but in terms of software sales, Nintendo games are the only real sellers for that system. Add to that the impressive numbers for the Nintendo DS.
Meanwhile, the XBox 360 and the especially the PS3 are having a hard time penetrating the market.
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10 Jun 2007, 10:27
Another annoyance gone now: with Firefox installed and set as the default browser, clicking on links in applications would result in an annoying error message from Vista despite Firefox opening the link correctly. Same happens if you type a URL in an Explorer window. This popup only happens if Firefox was not already running. The fix is to remove or rename the registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxURL\shell\open\ddeexec
This key will reappear when Firefox is updated, so you may want to prepare a .
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04 Jun 2007, 22:08
I know a few people got the Starcraft urge after the SC2 announcement; a couple of them even went and bought it again. I might have done likewise if I didn’t have Supreme Commander. But this?
Starcraft Battlechest and Warcraft 3 Battlechest up in the top 10 PC sales. The former is 9 years old, the later 5. And of course WoW and its expansion taking the top 2 spots. It’s just insane.
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03 Jun 2007, 21:55
If you have never played a Tower Defense game, now is the time to check them out by downloading the demo for Immortal Defense (via Indygamer). I believe this game concept originated as a mod for Starcraft and later Warcraft 3, but it has become a subgenre of strategy games in itself. The idea is simple: place and upgrade static defenses and destroy the incoming enemy waves. Different towers have different abilities, and the amount of enemies can be overwhelming at times, so make the most out of your limited resources!
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30 May 2007, 22:55
I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my desktop PC. So far, the usual: it is prettier but it feels noticeably slower and more unstable. The OS keeps asking for permission to do anything, but I know where that comes from and I don’t mind.
24 May 2007, 00:04
I just finished watching the 3rd season’s finale, and despite having found most of this season fairly uninteresting, I think the finale is among the best endings of a TV series I have ever seen. The finales of Battlestar Galactica’s 2nd season and Invasion’s first and only were very good as well, whereas this years’s Heroes has been a bit meh, 24 was “more of the same” and BSG was downright terrible.
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22 May 2007, 00:45
I’ll keep it short: the actual game is not so terrible, and all in all it seems a nice update of true Total Annihilation gameplay. I played the first few campaign missions and I found them fairly uninspired: complete some early objectives before the map expands and then decimate a large enemy base. Fun but a bit monotonous.
The only problem that remains is that the game freezes my PC after about 10-20 minutes of playing.
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19 May 2007, 19:11
Unless you are hiding under a rock, you will know by now that Blizzard has officially announced Starcraft 2. Juciy cinematic and gameplay videos are cluttering the Internet, fanboys and detractors heated in dialectic debates about the apparent lack of a difference between this game and the original. Me? I loved the original and I don’t mind Starcraft 1.5 with a visual upgrade. I don’t mind that at all. It looks exactly how I hoped it would, nothing more and nothing less.
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09 May 2007, 22:36
I wish they were all as honest as this. But what would have David Jaffe done if that was about his game?
Nah, I bet he would have loved it.