The latest Battlefield 3 trailer makes me wish the game was out right now and that I had a PC fast enough to run it. PS3 and Xbox 360 for me!
Category Archives: Games
Prince of Persia for the C64
Prince of Persia, an amazing game released in 1989 on the Apple II and ported to most platforms of the day but not the Commodore 64 for some reason.
In 2 days time the game is due to be released on the C64 in EasyFlash format, a cartridge format for the C64 but luckily Vice also supports it so I’ll be able to play it under emulation. Looks great doesn’t it?
Edit: Announcement post and download page for C64 Prince of Persia!
11 minute of Syndicate and it looks boring as hell
It’s an early level from the game but it’s so disappointing. Your player rolls around the level with arms outstretched holding a handgun. I hope the final game is better than the impression this gameplay teaser gives.
L4D2: Help them up!
Lord of Angry mmmmmar person was a bit of a douche when we played L4D2 gibfest tonight. It was great fun until that guy joined. He was fairly useless, charging ahead and shooting us all the time.
We got our revenge when he got knocked down. Duck watched as his health slowly drained away. He wasn’t happy! 🙂
BF3: Bombing and Dogfighting in the jet
Impressive video showing off the bombing capabilities of the jet in Battlefield 3. Nice number of points earned!
Here’s to you!
BF3: Grand Bazaar and Operation Firestorm Footage
Two new Battlefield 3 videos for you today! They’ll probably get uploaded to Youtube but they’re on IGN right now and I can’t embed them here.
- Operation Firestorm is a huge conquest map.
- Grand Bazaar is an urban map with lots of close fighting.
Thanks Arnaud for tweeting those. Can.not.wait!
Edit: Here they are:
Move Steam Games to another drive?
I have two partitions on my machines and the first one is always full so I’ve had to move games to the second partition from time to time. That means moving files and directories and opening a cmd prompt as an administrator to run mklink.
Well, it just got easier with Steam Mover. Nice GUI that uses xcopy, rd and mklink to copy Steam games to another drive.
It worked a treat moving 5GB of files over this evening!
Hires map of Minecraft
Last night I updated the version of Dynmap on my Minecraft server. It’s the plugin that generates a realtime map of the world. I chose to render the hires tiles and it’s already created 2.2GB of data where the previous map was only 20MB! And it’s still going!
I think it’s worth it however. Check out the screenshots below and decide for yourself.
Darned Endermen
One of the cool new features in Minecraft 1.8 was creative mode which allows you to fly around and build things without running out of blocks. It also stops you taking damage from mobs so I switched them on in the server for the hell of it.
Unfortunately the new mob, the Endermen, caused problems for David’s pyramid.
They kept robbing bits of it and moving them about! I didn’t want to disable mobs and thankfully someone created a plugin that restricts what the Endermen will pick up. After verifying that cobblestone wasn’t on the list I restarted the server and the pyramid was safe!
Pity about all the other structures made of “natural” material ..