You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days. Thankfully, the BBC has compiled a list of 100 new things that have been learnt over the past year.
Things to do before Santa gets here:
I’m off for the holidays and this weblog will not be updated as much the next week or so (as if it ever was). Now I’m gonna enjoy some much needed quality time with my amazing wife andwonderful son. Merry Christmas to all of you. See you on the other side… and if I don’t get around to it: Happy New Year as well!
What happens when a massively multiplayer game is approaching it’s final days? Asheron’s Call 2 is doing just that, and Clive Thompson is taking a look into the desolate, anarchic final days of the game which will be turned off forever on Dec. 30
Also follow the discussion at Terra Nova.
Again Matt Compton writes to me about King’s Quest IX, and this time with good news. Good news indeed;
On December 9, 2005, Vivendi Universal Games announced that they would allow King’s Quest IX (now renamed “The Silver Lining”) to continue!!
All of us here at Save King’s Quest IX wish to say THANK YOU to everyone that participated in this campaign. It was only because of your help that we were able to save the game.
Here is Vivendi’s official statement:
?After extensive evaluation, Vivendi Universal Games is pleased to announce that the fan developed trilogy project ?The Silver Lining’ (previously known as King’s Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining), based on characters from Sierra Entertainment’s King’s Quest series, has been given approval to continue development. We look forward to seeing the first of its three upcoming chapters, ?Shadows’, completed soon.?
For more information, you can visit The Silver Lining website.
I am also looking forward to this game with great anticipation.
Good job!
See the best of what most gamers missed out on over the last 2 decades. Wide range from early Nintendo and Sega to Current-Gen.
Great look back at the state of computer games in this TV show from 1984. Includes appearances by Trip Hawkins of Electronic Arts, Bill Budge, and Steve Kitchen from Activision.
You’ve got to see the “state of the art!”
Alias, Bust a Move, Crazy Taxi, Double Dragon, and hundreds of others. All these games once belonged to Acclaim software, but since they had a little bankruptcy problem, they are deciding to auction off the publishing rights to all of their games. Want the right to publish and sell Smash T.V.? It can be yours for the small price of $5,000.
It’s interesting to see which controllers were infuenced by others.
Once in a while you stumble upon a website that just nails it. Websites like Flickr.com, LinkedIn.com and Wikipedia.org. Websites that found a problem or a need and set out to fix or fill it. And became very successful in doing so.
Such a website is Last.fm.
Their idea is simple; you download a plug-in for your audio player (yes, they have one for your player as well) and it then logs everything you play and creates a profile of your musical preferences. Then it compares your listening habits with all the other users of Last.fm and recommends music that your musical neighbours are listening to but you are not.
But, wait there is more. Much more. You can download an open source player (available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and FreeBSD) and then stream music that fits your profile. This is like all ad-free radio should be. There are no ads, not even a person saying between tracks that ?This is Radio XXX, ad-free radio?. Nothing but music, and all kinds of music.
I cannot recommend Last.fm highly enough; they just do everything right. And best of all; it is free!
