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Live streaming is expensive, notch pulls the plug at 17000 viewer hours

Its been an interesting afternoon, i spent some time animating an awesome tornado in flash (i joke). While half watching (sorry notch) the live stream video feed of Markus Persson as he writes a dungeon explorer style game for the … Continue reading

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Ludum Dare challenge is on, let’s get our code face on

This weekend 20/08/11 or maybe 19th depending on your time zone, is the Ludum Dare game challenge thing. It happens every 4 months, April, August, and December. Those registered at http://www.ludumdare.com can submit a game to the competition. The rules … Continue reading

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Driver San Francisco Demo is live and kicking

Check out that jackass, that’s what they say, classic stuff. They said the new Driver handles like the old driver, with the big heavy American muscle cars, and it does, i’m impressed, i’m thinking the single player is going to … Continue reading

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Less is more, right?

Both Sony and Nintendo have announced new models of their old consoles, that come with less stuff, and for more that what you would pay on ebay. The new PSP will have no wifi, but looks to be a lot … Continue reading

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Notch challenges Bethesda to a quake 3 match

Notch of Minecraft fame has challenged Bethesda to a duel, two 20 minute matches on quake 3, Mojang’s best 3 players vs Bethesda’s best 3, each select a map, total frags over both wins. This i’ve got to see, i … Continue reading

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lartens favourite news bits 15/08/11

Heres just a few things that have cropped up in the feeds i follow etc, as this is what the initial intention of grigorig was, that is to share what i find interesting with my friends, here it is, it … Continue reading

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Minecraft, buy one, get one free this weekend

In celebration of @notch’s wedding to Ez this weekend, Mojang is giving away one free gift code of minecraft if you buy the game(not a gift code), now just to be clear, it states buying the game and not buying … Continue reading

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Goooooooo! 3DS for £115, i don’t think the ambassador program makes up for that

We’ve seen the news that Nintendo were slashing their prices, but so far I’d only seen US prices, which are usually considerably lower (after exchange rates) than in the UK because of tax, but i had no idea it was … Continue reading

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Super Street Fighter IV AE Evo finals in one big rolling beauty hehe

Enjoy an all in one street fighter final from evo 2011, some audio is dodge, also there’s been a flag that its igns material or something, so it may disappear, but its recorded from the ustream, took 20 hours to … Continue reading

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Bethesda’s lawyers go outters on @notch mojang

What! we hear you cry, this can’t be, we love notch, why would they do such a thing, apparently the name “scrolls” which is Mojangs other game in development, is infringing trademark on The Elder Scrolls Skyrim name, they’re worried … Continue reading

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