Archive for January, 2010
iPad, uPout Okay. Listen up. Here’s the news. One. The iPad browser doesn’t do Flash, it probably never will, and you don’t need it. The sun had already begun to set on Flash as web glitter long before the iPad came out, and it ain’t the only video game (get it?) in town. HTML 5 [ READ MORE ]
I finished Hidden Empire recently. I had preordered it for my Kindle, and it magically appeared on the device on 12/22/2009. I regarded it as a Christmas present to myself. I read it fairly quickly. I had a strong appetite for a story that bled more of the conspiracy-laden intrigue of the first novel, Empire, [ READ MORE ]
Moments after I saw this, which is the error message that the Love Beta showed me to gently alert me to the fact that my hardware is too old to do anything cool, I read this: CES 2010: Dell/Alienware announces new gaming PC netbook in this article at bigdownload.com. My laptop—on which I tried to [ READ MORE ]
I downloaded the Dark Void demo for PS3. Only when I heard the music did I remember something I’d forgotten: Bear McCreary scored the game. The Battlestar Galactica Season 3 soundtrack is my favorite of all the music I own, and when I heard the music start in the Dark Void demo it all came [ READ MORE ]
Spotted this: Vessel by Strange Loop Games. Looks like my kind of game. It’s a finalist in the 2010 Independent Games Festival under the “Technical Excellence” category. Kudos to Strange Loop. Ah, to be an independent game developer. The riches, the romance, the swashbuckling… Must be a great life[ READ MORE ]
I tend to like to write out video games’ entire titles, thinking that it makes things easier to search for. But let’s face it: colons are cumbersome. Please stop subtitling games. Now then. I finished Batman: Arkham Asylum (see?) the other day, and bestow upon it my most exclusive designation: a Work of Art. What [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been wondering what was taking Google so long to update Google Reader for iPhone with a “Like” feature. Well now they have. They’ve polished the app’s chrome and added an expandable menu below every post, moving less-frequently-used commands to it. I’ve been wanting the iPhone version to include Like for a while now, ever [ READ MORE ]
For Christmas, my wonderful wife went all out and bought me a complete set if homebrew equipment from Alabrew here in Birmingham. Today was brew day! The recipe was an Alabrew variant on “Phil’s Pils”, and it was fun to make. I’ve never homebrewed before and was intimidated by the idea, but having cooked the [ READ MORE ]
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