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Street Fighter IV iphone/ipod £0.59

Posted on March 15, 2011 2:33 pm by lartens

In support of the non, non non, non heinus disaster in japan last week, capcom have dropped the price of Street Fighter IV on the iphone/ipod to just £0.59p, offer valid until the 22nd march and sales are donated to … Continue reading →

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unreal engine 3 is epic hehe

Posted on March 10, 2011 5:15 pm by lartens

So last week at the game developer conference (GDC) epic showcased 2 minutes of samaritan, this is not a game, but an unveiling of some awesome new developments in what the unreal engine 3 can do utilizing directx11, apparently this … Continue reading →

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integers, doubles, floats and tinys. notch gets technical

Posted on March 9, 2011 11:54 pm by lartens

For those who don’t know, Markus Persson otherwise known as notch, is the lead developer of minecraft. What originally started as just one man coding in java, has now become a small development team bringing joy to the masses with … Continue reading →

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woot, update on project, a cube is traversing the board

Posted on March 8, 2011 9:44 pm by lartens

errr, yeah the title pretty much says it, got a cube to change direction on the board based on where it is, needs some tinkering for the actual game though big style

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Quick post to show the board set up on my project

Posted on March 6, 2011 11:35 pm by lartens

It may not look like much but the board is setup and the camera is mostly working at this stage

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Steve Jobs didn’t want to miss out on the ipad 2 event.

Posted on March 2, 2011 7:50 pm by lartens

So today is the day the ipad 2 gets it’s little event over in san francisco. Jobs is there to gloat over how little the copy cat tablets are catching up to the first ipad. And now the ipad 2 … Continue reading →

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Get in the ring. Aminal Team have entered Dream Build Play 2011

Posted on March 2, 2011 1:19 am by lartens

After 2 years of riding high on success (sarcasm), Aminal Team enter the Dream Build Play competition once more. 2009 saw a less than finished attempt of a 2d christmas platformer, which was later released on xbox live indie games … Continue reading →

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Pac-Man DX deal of the week. 400 microsoft points Yo

Posted on March 1, 2011 10:13 pm by lartens

Pac man DX an absolute steal at 400 microsoft points this week.

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Team meat announce 3DS sdk to work with

Posted on March 1, 2011 2:32 am by lartens

Well the news is in the title, the news is doing the rounds that team meat, the indie creators of super meat boy on xbla and steam, ahave themself a nintendo 3ds sdk. Thats a software development kit so they … Continue reading →

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Microsoft research is doing some interesting things

Posted on February 28, 2011 11:39 pm by lartens

Well boys, this video was out days ago but things are slow at cassa de lartens. But this video has some very interesting works in rogrss for using cameras like the kinect for tracking and some other fandangled technology for … Continue reading →

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