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Let's Remember that Game: Episode 1

Hello, Do you know that feeling when you remember a game that you discovered and really like and felt special because it wasn’t one of those big publisher games that are all over the media? Well, if you don’t, you should try harder :)! I want to create a series of posts remembering games that …

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Game On

Quick update: as you might have noticed, I’ve added two widgets to the sidebar with my Xbox Live ID and my PSN ID. Feel free to friend me, maybe we can rock some game together, or maybe not, who knows :P. Come to think of it, I haven’t played a good multiplayer game in quite …

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Do You Have Conviction?

Quick gaming update. In case you haven’t been living under a rock you know who Tom Clancy is. Bringing him aboard for their games has probably made Ubisoft a boat load of money. And for good reason. I am not a big fan of the Ghost Recon series and I wasn’t too impressed by Endwar …

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Gomoku

I dug up one of my old projects, an implementation of the game Gomoku – a game played on a Go board where the goal is to build a row of 5 stones. The goal of my project was to apply the minimax algorithm using a pruning heuristic to reduce the game states search space. …

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Ubisoft: Just Give Up!

In case you haven’t heard all about Ubisoft’s brain-dead DRM scheme, read my previous post. Here’s a quick update: it seems that for the last few days legit owners of Silent Hunter 5 and Assassin’s Creed 2(I haven’t gotten mine yet…) have been unable to play due to the fact that Ubisoft servers were down …

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New Steam In The Pipes

Quick update. It’s no secret that Steam is the most successful digital distribution network for the PC. Since the launch of Half-Life 2, Steam has done wonders in the field of digital distribution. Digital distribution should be the way of the future: you are no longer tied to a physical medium, updates are pushed by …

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Mad World

A quick bite. You probably know this song very well. It’s “Mad World” by Gary Jules. I was just watching a trailer for “The Crazies” that used this song as theme. For me, this song is linked to the awesome “Gears of War” game. I can watch this for a while…

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