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Category Archives: News
Summer Mapping Initiative
My god, it’s been a while since I posted on my blog. The planets must have aligned or something. I’ve always been a fan of Valve’s games and the Portal series is no exception. When Portal 2 first came out … Continue reading
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
It’s time for another one of those “why I haven’t updated my website recently” posts. I seem to have been hit with an incredible stroke of bad luck lately. My main hard drive started playing up after a series of … Continue reading
Stimulating the MANN-conomy
Valve has just released an update to Team Fortress 2 which boasts 65 new items, along with new features such as item trading and purchasing. That’s right, purchasing. In an effort to “make some f$*&ing money already”, Valve has introduced … Continue reading
New Theme and E3
Okay so despite my promises of content two months ago I haven’t really posted anything. WordPress 3.0 came out very recently which gave me yet another excuse to update this site. The new default theme is fittingly titled “twenty ten” … Continue reading
Still Alive
It’s been months since my last post here; I’ve been tied up with work, trips to Brisbane and other issues such as pure laziness. I decided about a week ago to start working on this site again but I figured … Continue reading
Upgrades and Stuff
So after waiting a whole week, I finally got myself a copy of Windows 7 (and two gigs of extra RAM). I used the public beta and release candidates so I haven’t seen any big surprises but I’m definitely enjoying the experience. Windows 7 has a bunch of cool features like Jump Lists and progress bars in the taskbar (not sure what they call that exactly). They’re actually unexpectedly easy to work with, so I’ll probably write a tutorial on those within the next week or so. Continue reading
Australian gamers left for dead by the Classification Review Board
The Australian federal government’s Classification Review Board announced today that Valve Software’s Left 4 Dead 2 will not be awarded an MA 15+ rating, which the game requires in order to be legally sold in Australia. Continue reading
Excuses and Litigation
Okay so it’s been just under three months since I last posted and that has been for a variety of reasons, which I will now outline. Continue reading
Upcoming Content
I have some stuff I’m planning to publish within the next few days, starting with an introduction to C#, one of my favourite programming languages. I’m also planning of writing up some walkthroughs for Valve Hammer Editor, which is part … Continue reading
Budget Builds and So On…
Vito Cassisi has written a guide on his blog for anyone out there looking to build a decent PC for under $1000 (that’s Australian dollars, folks). I’m sure there’s plenty of people out there looking to save cash (I know … Continue reading