Team based adventure looking as good as Assassin’s Creed, but more centered on multiplayer and adventure. I think it’s PC only at this time.

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Looks like, as early as August, the XBOX 360 will drop $50 more to $350. As backed up by some leaked images:

Yet another meme that took a turn for the better, I didn’t post this here before because of the sound. Click the picture below for the redone leekspin featuring Fallout.

Being bored around summertime allows me to toy with the idea of writing snippets of code to help me out. The number one hardest thing about coding and developing is finding an idea… especially an idea that someone hasn’t already done.

I’ve wanted to tackle a Firefox Extension for awhile now, mainly just to know I could do it. So far I’ve only messed with it and had it say text in the taskbar, obviously not too useful.

Today I was fed up with the fact that the only time I get my anti-virus to scan downloads automatically is if I have them go through my download manager. The problem is, so many sites have download redirecting that download managers won’t work. So I need to remember to trigger the anti-virus manually after it is downloaded. So I finally went looking for a Firefox extension to do it for any download.

I went to the add-ons site, and browser around and didn’t see anything. Then I tried the search for “virus” and still nothing. Well, could this be a new project for me? Surely someone has done this before?

And yes, they have, a Google search turned up an old extension called DownloadScan, and further searching revealed SafeDownload.

Automatically scan downloaded files for viruses. You can choose to scan immediately after the file has downloaded or wait until Firefox exits. Works well with NOD32 anti-virus.

This one is simple, you plugin your virus scanner location and any arguments you want in the options. You can actually have up to four things scan your files, so you can run a spyware checker, or whatever, along with your virus scan. One nice feature, as I do indeed use NOD32, is that it shows all the arguments for NOD32 in a popup window, along with their descriptions. I already knew these, but I remember the initial setting up of command-line NOD32 took some learning, and this will definitely help other people.

Long before CGI there was the wonderful world of stop-motion filmmaking. What better way to recreate a computer game!

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As usual, with all the hooplah around E3, many games are eclipsed by the torrent of big names and fall through the cracks.

Echochrome is a game where you change perspective to play. Constantly and solely. There is a character, but you don’t control it, you control your perspective in relation to it and it’s environment. The game is a great MC Escher-like world and a fantastic idea. Sure to mess with your mind like Portal (and the original, Narbacular Drop) will.

Echochrome is slated for Sony consoles: the PSP and the PS3.

Reducing the game of checkers into a group of algorithms of movement, computer scientist Jonathan Schaeffer has developed a program called Chinook that he has proven that at the least will draw. Apparently checkers played in a perfect game will always end in a draw.

Forget hoity-toity chess programs, Chinook has long ago ditched any human competition. The work since then was only to find an unbeatable game, and a proof to the algorithm that is the game of checkers. On the Chinook website is a link to the proof for verification. (I started to, but then I realized how much non-fun I had in my discrete math and program verification course, and decided to put it off until never.)

You can also play against the program, in a more dumbed-down version that is difficult, but that won’t always win.

More on this story at Scientific American

This is for all those who sit at the “Connecting to Account Server” screen for ages before it finally logs them in to Battlefield 2. Or, sometimes, they never even get to login, it just hangs there forever.

Go to your My Documents >> Battlefield 2 >> Profiles folder. Find the profile you are trying to log in with. It will probably be the first or only one there, starting with “001″. In that folder, open up the file General.con with your favorite text editor. Notepad works fine. Then scroll down to any lines that contain “GeneralSettings.addServerHistory” or “GeneralSettings.addFavouriteServer” and delete those lines. Save and close the file.

Then go to the My Documents >> Battlefield 2 >> Profiles folder again and this time open the LogoCache folder. Delete everything in this folder.

Then fire up Battlefield 2 and watch in amazement as you connect to your account at breakneck speed.

I forgot to post this before. My current favorite mod has reached version .6, with a lot of improvements and important class streamlining. Plus, guys in sneakers that throw rocks!

Read about it and get it here.

Along with some developer comment. Definitely shaping up to be a worthy successor to the System Shock throne. Gameplay seems diverse and open, at least as far as individual battles go. The gameplay seems a bit “tunnelled” and linear, but so was Half-Life 2 and it was a blast.

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About that other console genre that I love: Racing…

E3 is always a fountain of sensory overload. Too many games for my mind to wrap itself around.