Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

Rocket Jumping Zen

These guys have raised rocket jumping to a new art form – the blast of the rocket launcher in Quake 3 propels the avatar skywards. It’s a truly awesome display of the fundaments of snooker being used in a complex fashion in a computer game and seriosly worth a look for the effort these guys [...]

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Top 100 selling games since 2000

This list is very exhaustive and well researched and contains a whole load of shockers!

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Galactic Civilisation II

Galciv2 is an extremely moddable turn based galactic conquest game. It looks attractive, has a huge user base, has no copy protection, is affordable and frequently releases updates. It now has an expansion pack in the works, you can preorder. Not bad!

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Print your WoW Character

In 3D! First you convert the character to VRML and then feed it into the printer. These guys have 2 links to people who will do the printing for you.

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Remote Control Golfball

Wouldn’t it be lovely if your putting average would be perfect, nobody loves his short game, so maybe a remote control golfball could help? http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/search.do?productCode=REMGOL#

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MMORPG with deer

In The Endless Forest, a free MMORPG, you play a deer. You can sniff and snort, but not chat to others. You don’t have a name, but a pictogram. You can watch the deities (the programmers) do events in a glade. You can wander about and do deer stuff. There is no competition, no pain [...]

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More sex in games!

Damn, I remember that space invader clone where you had to shoot tits and condoms using your sperm quivering penis. Apparently sex in games looks better now, and game developers want more of it. Me too!

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Life of a pro gamer

For real this guy is making six figures every year since 2000!

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Blizzard is using WoW to spy on your PC

Agreeing to the new Terms of Service (which we all did without actually looking at them) for World of Warcraft now gives Blizzard permission to use their program “Warden” to search your harddrive and send any information they find and want back to them. That’s going a bit far for an anti-cheating system… the ToS [...]

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Video Game Commercials

The TV ads people make to promote their products – these can get a bit strange at times, especially the Japanese ones…

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